Snapcraft Factions | Official Rules
Rules that will be abided by, ensuring Factions is played in its true essence.
Qualification
Biweekly Qualification | Has placed value in the last 24 hours |
| Baseclaim is on a world border |
| Meet mimimum / maximum base size |
| Must not have an illegal base which makes it near impossible to raid (i.e. 200 chunk buffer, 300 walls, illegal walls…) |
| Must not be shield abusing |
| Must not be an alternative “alt” faction of another competing faction |
Final Payout Qualification | Has placed value in the last 72 hours (3 days) of the map ending |
| Faction must be 14 days old at the time of the competition ending |
| Meet mimimum / maximum base size |
| Must not have an illegal base which makes it near impossible to raid (i.e. 200 chunk buffer, 300 walls, illegal walls…) |
| Must not be shield abusing |
| Must not be an alternative “alt” faction of another competing faction |
Strikes
1 strike - Warning offense
2 strikes - 10% value reduction
3 strikes - 20% value reduction
4 strikes - 30% value reduction
5 strikes - 40% value reduction
6 strikes - 50% value reduction
7 strikes - 60% value reduction
8 strikes - Disqualification
Base Rules
Claim Hindering
Claiming in the path of another faction’s buffer during grace period is not allowed. “Useless” claims i.e. random claims outside of a buffer will be removed upon team factions discretion. If you build your base next to another faction there must be a 60 chunk gap. A base in the corner takes priority and the other base will be removed if this rule is violated.
Offenses:
→ Claim removal
Buffer Limit
Your buffer count starts from the exterior of your base shell. The buffer limit is 15 chunks or 120 walls. Going past this number will lead to strikes. Skipping chunks and genning more walls will also count towards your buffer size.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
AFK Bot Accounts / Raid Detectors
You may not have bot accounts afking walls, even if they have no raid detector function. Raid detectors are not allowed whatsoever, this includes redstone checkboxes.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Anti-nuke Walls / Finnsters
You are not allowed to have more than 1 chunk of antinukes defending your base per side.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Illegal Spawner Placement
Surrounding spawners in obsidian, water, or hiding them in reverse layers / between walls so they can not be creeper egged is not allowed.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Buffer Counter Limit
You are not allowed to have more than 1 buffer counter per side of your base.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Buffer counter walls limit
You are allowed to have a maximum of 5 chunks of walls (40 walls) on your buffer counter.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Ocean Limit
You are only allowed to have 1 chunk (16 blocks) of ocean in width per side of your base.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Base Size
The maximum base size may not exceed 5 x 5 chunks and the minimum base size is 2 x 2 chunks. Your base should be 50 blocks tall, and upon breaching the base once, all of the spawners should be accessible to be creeper egged.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Raiding Rules
Raiding without Raid Claims
When attempting a faction’s base you are REQUIRED to claim raid claims before and after the cannon is built. Raid claims are not required for raiding traps or testing cannons.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 2 Strikes
Raid Interfering
You may not interfere in a raid if you are not in the faction who is defending or raiding a base. Some examples of raid interfering are pinging adjust coordinates, running sides / looking for counters, and PVPing or taking loot from a raid.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Wilderness Patching
Players may not patch outside of their claims with the intent of extending their buffer length. Claiming and then patching will be seen as extending your buffer. This rule also applies to cannon boxes; factions may not extend outside of their 24 walls with the intent of extending their buffer length.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Illegal Patching
Patching through the use of printer, genbuckets, or sandbots while you are on an active timer is not allowed. This also counts for raiding and counter cannons. You may not patch in these ways if you are being countered or countering. On a cannon box, you must wait 5 minutes after the last shot to begin gen patching, otherwise your faction will be striked for this offense.
The following items are illegal to patch with:
- Slime Blocks
- Cobwebs
- Enchantment Tables
- Banners
- Levers
- Cactus
- Anvils
- Chests / Ender Chests
- More.. (Team Factions Discretion)
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Destroying Spawners
You may not mine, creeper egg, or chunkbust spawners while you are being raided. Players may mine spawners freely while on safety break or shield.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Illegal Cannons
- Push Nukes
- U-Fusions
- Horizontal Pseudos
- Horizontal Nukes
- Multiple Wall One-Shots
- Mid Airs
- Corner Nukes
- Wall Removers
- Left/Right Shooters
- Worms
- Chimneys
- Reverse Nukes
- Roof Cannons
- Cannons faster than 3 seconds (above a 10 stacker)
- Cannons that use more than 4000 TNT per shot.
- Overstackers which stack more than 6 sand
- More… (Team Factions discretion)
Note: The use of illegal cannons may lead to a ban on the cannoner.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 3 Strikes
Shooting Multiple Counters at Once
Shooting 2 counter cannons at once is forbidden including shooting a buffer counter and a side counter at the same time, ect… You must wait 3 minutes before switching which side you are shooting from.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Barrel Claim Rules
Barrels must be raid claimed, side claimed (side counters only) or barrel claimed. Barrels may not float into or through wilderness claims.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Multiple Cannons in a Box / Claim
You are not allowed to have more than 1 active cannon in a cannon box or in a cannon claim. The same goes for counter cannons and their claims. For a cannon to be 'inactive' it must be blown up or accessible without having to breach the box.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Abusing Raid Timer
You may not use alt factions to trigger a raid timer on your faction. Additionally, factions must not activate another faction’s raid timer unless they have the intention to raid that faction.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 3 Strikes
Cannon Box Defenses
Players are not allowed to have more than 3 chunks of walls (24 walls) per side of their raiding cannon box. Furthermore, they are not allowed to use finnsters/anti-nuke walls, oceans, or slabs on their raid or counter cannon box (buffers included).
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strike
Side Countering without Counter Claims
You are not allowed to side counter without using counter cannon claims. Using regular claims to side counter will get you punished. You don't need to have counter cannon claims for counters which are inside your buffer.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Illegal Countering
Back countering, bordering countering, and front countering are not allowed (exception being your buffer counter). You may make a front side counter if countering another counter cannon. Back countering a side counter is not allowed, and Pre-Sides are not allowed. Counter claims can only be 5x5 chunks big at maximum and they can not connect with other counter claims.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 2 Strikes
Side Timer
Players must wait 3 minutes before setting up another side counter in an attempt to breach the raiding faction's cannon box.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
General Rules
Faction Wide Cheating
Having 2 players banned in your faction for cheats or related is not allowed. This includes inactive and active bans. Another 2 bans is required to move on to the next offense.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 3 Strikes
Multiple Corner Claims
Your faction is only allowed to claim 1 corner. Claiming more than 1 corner will result in the corner being unclaimed and strikes towards the faction. Factions are not allowed to claim multiple corners on alt accounts.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Abusing Faction Shield
Claiming with an alt faction inside of your buffer with the intent to give more than 18 hours of shield to your base is not allowed. Using an alt faction with shield to protect your cannon box also falls under this rule. Base claiming traps in order to trap players with shield is not allowed.
Offenses:
→ 2 Strikes
→ 3 Strikes
→ 4 Strikes
Economy Script
Using software / an external tool to automate farming crops is not allowed. This also includes breaking crops with the printer break feature.This rule also includes using alternative / bot accounts to cap outposts.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
→ 3 Strikes
Bot Related
Bot accounts may not have any sort of vanish trackers, world scanners, player trackers, or any type of movement / combat modules. If a bot is seen to be moving / flying there is enough reason to screenshare the bot account / account owner for bot related punishments. Claiming playtimerewards on a mass amount of bots will also count towards this rule. Faction Alts are also meant to AFK farms, /f alts should not be used to bypass the roster limit
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Sharing Value (Competing on multiple factions)
You can't share value between other factions and it's a disqualification from Factions Top.
Offenses:
→ 8 Strikes
Strike Evasion
Creating a new faction to evade your previous factions’ strikes is not allowed.
Offenses:
→ 8 strikes
Server Abuse
Abusing the server by trying to crash it, bug abuse, dupe and similar. Even if only one player in your faction does this, the whole faction could be affected.
Offenses:
→ 2 Strikes
→ 4 Strikes
→ 8 Strikes
Inviting Players Mid-raid
Inviting players to join your faction mid raid is not allowed. The raid starts when a timer has started. Players may join if they are already within the factions’ built in roster.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Hiding Value
Any value spawners placed must be within base claims so they are counted towards faction top. Value spawners are the following: Villagers, Iron Golems, and Creepers.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Allying
Allying within a KOTH/Citadel/PvP Setting is perfectly allowed. However, allying is not allowed under any circumstances within a raiding environment.
Offenses:
→ 1 Strike
→ 1 Strike
→ 2 Strikes
Miscellaneous Rules
Safety Camping
Camping near a base while they are on safety break and preventing them from patching their walls is not allowed.
Offenses:
→ Kick
→ 1d IP-Ban to all players involved
→ 2d IP-Ban to all players involved
AFK Grinding
Using the F11 bug / Alt + Tab to AFK grind mobs or crops is not allowed. You must be present at all times whilst doing these actions.
Offenses:
→ Follows normal rule.
Autocane Farm
Creating automatic cane farms is not allowed as they hurt the economy as well as server performance.
Offenses:
→ 1d ban to the user(s) who created it + removal of the farm.
→ 5d ban to the user(s) who created it + removal of the farm.
→ 7d ban to the user(s) who created it + removal of the farm.
Warden Pet
Spamming the warden pet at KoTH or outposts in order to avoid being knocked off of the capping area is not allowed as it provides an extreme advantage to the player capping the objective. Players may still use the pet to trap and kill players, but if they are seen to abuse it to avoid being knocked for long periods of time, they will be punished.
Offenses:
→ Verbal Warning
→ 3d ban
→ 7d ban
Grappler Hook
Using the grappler hook in warzone is allowed however they can not be used to climb into the safezone from warzone. This also includes using the grappler to get back into spawn from warp pvp. You may not use grappler hooks to escape from traps which can not be pearled out of.
Offenses:
→ 3d ban
→ 7d ban
→ 14d ban
Fly Boosting
Any form of Fly Boosting is not allowed, and should be disabled on clients that allow this mechanic.
Offenses:
→ 3d ban
→ 7d ban
→ 14d ban
Insiding
Insiding a faction, for example taking their items and leaving, mining holes in their base for other factions, or killing members then leaving is not allowed and will result in a ban. There may be other cases not mentioned above which are punishable. When a player adds spawners to a faction, they’ve become the factions’ spawners, and no longer the players. Team factions may decide not to punish a player for taking very little wealth from a faction or having a reason to take it. Only actions done in-game can be considered insiding although evidence from discord or other places may be taken into consideration.
Offenses:
→ 14 day ban
→ 31 day ban
→ Permanent Ban
Merging Factions
Changing factions within the last 7 days of the map is not allowed. This is to prevent people from sharing value and raiding players from multiple factions. If players are seen merging / changing factions within 7 days of the map ending they will be punished with a ban.
Offenses:
→ Verbal warning to leave
→ 3d ban
→ 5d ban
Notices:- You will most likely be punished if you try to bypass the rules with small technicalities.
The staff member determines the rule broken and they have the last word. - Any duping or use of serious glitches will result in automatic disqualification and disbanding.
- If a faction does not fix an issue with their base within 24 hours of notice/punishment, they will be punished accordingly with the next offense.
- Rollbacks will never occur unless there is a dupe / major bug. However, In some cases of broken rules, the affected faction may be reimbursed through a banknote.
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