1.1 Universal Respect: Treat all players, builders, and staff members with respect. Toxic behavior, flame-warring, gaslighting, or intentional drama-starting will not be tolerated.

1.2 Zero Tolerance Bigotry: Any form of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, religious discrimination, or hate speech will result in an immediate, permanent, unappealable ban.

1.3 Family-Friendly Environment (PG-13): Keep public chat appropriate for all ages. Light swearing is permitted, but excessive vulgarity, highly inappropriate topics, drug references, or sexual chat are forbidden.

1.4 No Spamming or Flooding: Do not flood the chat buffer. This includes sending multiple rapid messages, abusing capital letters (all-caps), character stalling (e.g., "hellloooooo"), or mass countdowns.

1.5 English Only in Public Chat: To ensure our staff can effectively moderate the server, please keep the global chat in English. Use /msg or local town chat for other languages.

1.6 No Advertising: Do not share server IPs, Discord invite links, streaming channels, or website links to external Minecraft communities.

1.7 Controversial Topics: Refrain from discussing highly sensitive real-world politics, religious arguments, or intense global news events in public chat.

1.8 No Mini-Modding: Do not enforce rules or threaten other players with punishments. If a rule is broken, screenshot it and use the /report command or open a ticket on Discord.

1.9 Staff Disrespect & Harassment: Staff members give up their free time to help the server. Arguing with staff choices, lying during an investigation, or constant harassment of staff will result in a heavy ban.

2.1 No Griefing Anywhere: Destroying, defacing, modifying, or placing blocks on a structure built by another player without explicit permission is strictly illegal.

2.2 Wilderness Protection: Our anti-griefing rules apply to the entire server. Modifying or ruining builds in the wilderness or unclaimed land is still tracked by logs and will be punished as griefing.

2.3 No Stealing: Taking items from any container (chests, furnaces, hoppers, barrels, shulker boxes) belonging to another player is banned. This applies even if the chest is left unlocked or outside town claims.

2.4 Crop & Animal Theft: Harvesting another player's farms without fully replanting them is theft. Killing, breeding, or taking animals/villagers from another player's area is strictly forbidden.

2.5 Public / Wilderness Farms: Public farms must be kept clean. Always replant what you take. Destroying a public or community farm will be treated as standard griefing.

2.6 Terraforming & Landscape Defacement: Do not ruin the natural world. Mass lava-casting, random floating water streams, large 1x1 dirt pillars, or deliberately burning down forests is banned.

2.7 Abandoned Structures: Even if a town falls into ruin or a player has been offline for months, you may not claim, raid, or dismantle their builds unless given explicit approval by an Admin.

2.8 Safe Teleportation: All public player warps, town spawns (/t spawn), and teleport requests must drop players into a safe area. Creating traps that cause fall damage, lava drops, suffocation, or void deaths is a severe, high-tier offense.

3.1 Border Buffers: To prevent friction, you may not claim land or start a new town within 5 chunks (80 blocks) of an existing town's border unless you have explicit written permission from that town's Mayor.

3.2 Claim-Blocking: Intentionally extending your town's claims solely to wrap around, block off, or trap another town from naturally expanding is strictly illegal.

3.3 Mayor Claims Responsibility: Mayors have complete control over their town permissions. If a Mayor grants someone build/container access to a plot and they steal items, staff will punish the thief, but cannot guarantee item recovery. Choose your town residents carefully!

3.4 Resident Eviction Law: Mayors have the legal right to evict any resident from their town. However, the Mayor must give the resident at least 48 hours notice to safely pack up and move their personal inventory out of the plot.

3.5 Outpost Spawning: Do not create outposts near other players' wilderness bases to claim-lock them out of their own surrounding land.

3.6 Inappropriate Claim Names: Town names, nation names, plot titles, and custom map art must be appropriate. Any offensive titles or symbols will be deleted instantly by staff.

4.1 Illegal Clients & Cheats: The use of any hacked client (Meteor, Aristois, Wursthacked, etc.) or cheat mod that modifies movement, blocks, or interactions is strictly banned.

4.2 X-Ray & Survival Exploits: X-ray modifications, cave-finders, specialized texture packs, or item-tracking radars are totally forbidden. Anyone caught using X-ray will suffer a complete data, economy, and inventory wipe.

4.3 Approved Modifications: Performance mods (Sodium, Iris, Optifine), shaders, inventory organizers, and mini-maps (provided player/entity radar is turned off) are 100% legal.

4.4 Lag Machines & Redstone Clocks: Building redstone machines intended to lag the server or drop the server TPS rate is completely illegal. Any infinite-loop redstone clock must have an accessible, automated Off switch.

4.5 Unoptimized Entity Cramming: To protect server performance, keep animal pens, villager trading halls, and mob grinders within standard limits. Mass over-crowding that creates massive server tile-entity lag will be thinned out by staff.

4.6 Automated Play & Anti-AFK: Using macros, auto-clickers, hardware weights, or anti-AFK pools/machines to bypass the automated server AFK kick timer is banned. You must be actively sitting at your computer to gain playtime or farm resources.

5.1 Scamming Policy: All player trade contracts, auction house deals, shop chest transactions, and town tax agreements must be honored fully. Deceiving a player during a transaction will result in an immediate economy wipe and ban.

5.2 Real Money Trading (RMT): You are strictly prohibited from trading KaosCraft in-game money, items, claims, or services for real-world currency, gift cards, or external video game assets.

5.3 Alternative Accounts (Alts): Each player is allowed a maximum of 1 alternative account. Using multiple alts to mass-exploit daily vote rewards, bypass economic cooldowns, or horde town claims is illegal.

5.4 Exploit Reporting: If you discover a duplication glitch, world-breaking bug, or economy exploit, you must report it to the staff team immediately. Using it for personal advantage or sharing it with other players will result in a permanent, unappealable IP ban.

5.5 Weaponized Reporting: Submitting deliberately false player reports or abusing the support system to target, slander, or slow down innocent community members will result in penalties on your own account.