Introduction
By playing on the BlazeVortex Network, you automatically agree to these rules and as a player it is your responsibility to stay up to date with them.
These rules are subject to change at any point in the map and will be announced in the #Changelog channel within our discord.
Senior staff may perform punishments based on their points of view.
Create a ticket if they need clarification on one of our rules.
Strike System
Senior Staff are the only ones that can give out strikes.
Value is taken from the Faction Top placement calculations during payouts and no physical value is taken.
3 Faction Strikes - 10% Value Removed
6 Faction Strikes - 25% Value Removed
9 Faction Strikes - 50% Value Removed
12 Faction Strikes - 75% Value Removed
15 Faction Strikes - 100% Value Removed + Disqualified from that week’s payout.
(All involved players will be temporarily banned for the remainder of the map).
Faction Bans
Faction points are stackable, e.g., once you reach 3 bans, you will receive 3 points.
Once you reach 5 bans, you will receive another 3 upon your previous punishments.
3 Faction Bans - 3 Strike Points
5 Faction Bans - 3 Strike Points
Any attempt to bypass these rules will result in the same punishment.
General Rules
General rules and their punishments surrounding factions can be found here.
- Unfair Advantages
Any external client or modification that gives you an edge over other players' is not allowed.
Allowed and disallowed modifications and clients can be found here.- Punishment:
- 1st Offence: Map ban.
- 2nd Offence: 30 day ban.
- 3rd Offence: Permanent ban.
- Mute & Ban evasion
Using alternate accounts is by all means allowed on our servers, but abusing alternate accounts to bypass a mute or a ban is a ban on that account.
You must contact an administrator or senior staff member to verify that the accounts are related- Punishment:
- Mute Evasion 1st Offense: Ban for length of Mute
- Mute Evasion 2nd Offense: Permanent Ban
- Ban Evasion 1st Offense: Perm IP Ban
- Duped Items
Intentionally duping items or having duped items and knowing that they are not legit is strictly forbidden. - Economic Scripting
You are not allowed to use any external tools/software to automate the process of harvesting crops, especially sugar cane, to autofish, or to automate any other income source. The use of any automation methods such as scripting, auto fishing, and others is strictly forbidden. F11 glitching is allowed, you are required to be able to respond within 30s at all times while farming.. - Punishment: Player will be banned for the remainder of the map and value will be removed if applicable.
- Trapping with “Illegal” blocks.
You may not attempt to trap someone with “illegal blocks.” These blocks include levers, portals and gen buckets. You may also not attempt to trap someone using printer, sandbots or a schematic.- Punishment: 1 day ban and inventory will be rollbacked if applicable.
- Block Glitching
Block glitching is not allowed, and is classified as breaking a block to quickly hit a player behind that block (e.g., hitting through doors, fence gates, or any other block). You are also not allowed to place blocks to “glitch up” to a point you would otherwise be unable to reach (e.g., spamming blocks underneath you and jumping upwards to reach a 2 block high ledge).- Punishment: Player glitching will be banned for 12 hours.
- Refusal to ScreenShare.
If you are frozen by a staff member and then asked to join the waiting room in our discord, you must join within 5 minutes. If you do not, that is deemed a “Refusal to SS".
- Punishment: Permanent ban.
- Insiding.
Any attempt to infiltrate a faction with malicious intentions, such as stealing value for yourself or another faction is strictly prohibited.- Punishment: Permanent banned + rollback if applicable. (It can depend on the inside.)
- Bypassing spawner mine price
Using creeper eggs to remove value from your own faction land is prohibited. This is allowed on overclaimed territories when raiding.- Punishment: 2 strike points for factions that removed value. The spawners will be removed.
- Alternate Factions
You cannot use an alternate faction to bypass any of our rules or use an alternate faction to obtain multiple payouts. - Punisment: The alt faction disbanded & main faction received 6 strike points.
- Detectors
In no way, shape or form are any detectors allowed. This means you are not allowed to use anything that would inform you that you are being raided. Manual checking, however, is allowed.- Punishment: 2 strike points for offending faction.
- Merging Value/Leave.
You are allowed to merge factions, but you cannot merge the faction wealth, TNT or any value between them. If you wish to leave your current faction to join/start a new faction after the grace period, you must obtain permission from a senior staff member before doing so. This includes providing value to a faction in order for them to increase their standing regarding F-Top Payouts and TNT. All mergers must be moderated by a Manager or higher.
Note: Faction bans and strikes will carry over if you merge with another faction.- Punishment: Disqualification from current season payouts, value removed and base world-edited out.
- Payout Boosting
Doing buycraft deals for ridiculous amounts (for example $0.01 for 10 billion) is not allowed (Staff Discretion). Giving players or factions faction value, whether free or in a loan, just to be boosted in faction value or to beat another faction in the payout is considered payout boosting. Loans are not allowed and trades must be made in full at the time of trade. This includes last moment trades for large amounts of value.- Punishment: Disqualification from current season payouts, value removed and base world-edited out for both factions.
- Leeching value from a raid.
You are not allowed to take value from another faction’s raid. If a faction has an active raid timer on another faction, you should not go into their base or take any value. - Punishment: 2 day ban.
- Trap Claims.
You may have one trap claim outside of spawn and it can be a maximum of 4x4 claim. - Punishment: Claims corrected
- Allying/Teaming During PvP
Allying/Teaming with players from other factions is not allowed. This includes but is not limited to numerous factions targeting a player from a different faction in PvP.
Any attempt to bypass these rules will result in the same punishment.
Base Rules
If you are unsure if a base defense is allowed, please create a ticket.
In order to qualify for Paypal rewards, you must have a total of 100 walls minimum surrounding your base on each side and 250m max.
Base Rules
- Buffer Size
The maximum amount of buffer a faction is allowed to have is 20 chunks (160 walls) in each direction starting from the base wall.- Punishment: if the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given 24 hours to correct any existing illegal claims and walls. If the base is not fixed within that time period, the claims will be forcibly removed by staff. If the claims are re-extended by the offending faction, they will receive 1 strike point.
If occurring after the grace period, the faction will automatically receive 1 faction point along with the illegal claims being removed.
- Neighboring Base
There must be a 50 chunk gap between the end of a faction’s buffer for their base and a neighboring base. Each faction may only have 1 base per quadrant, including farm claims
(i.e., your cane farm may not be in the same quadrant as your base)- Punishment: In the case of two separate factions, the base that was claimed first will remain, while the second base will be unclaimed to create a 50 chunk gap. In the case of two bases belonging to the same faction, the base that was claimed most recently will be unclaimed to create a 50 chunk gap. If either base is rebuilt/reclaimed, the offending faction will receive 1 faction point.
- Claiming Corners.
A faction may only claim one corner at a time. - Punishment: Other corner is unclaimed by a staff member.
- Unreachable Bases and Cannon Boxes
You may not design your base in a way that cannot be reached from your buffer / walls. You should be able to enderpearl at the top of the box. - Punishment: Offending faction receives 1 strike point and base / box is corrected.
- Extending Buffer
You may not claim (or build) past the end of your 20 chunk buffer or cannon box. Additional Info: You are only allowed to have 1 pvp claim aligned with your buffer, but will have to be unclaimed once not used.- Punishment: Land unclaimed, Blocks removed, 1 strike point added. If the pvp claim was not unclaimed after 30 minutes, offending faction will receive a verbal warning and be forced unclaimed.
- Redstone Contraptions
Redstone contraptions on bases are forbidden, this includes and is not limited to redstone checkboxes. - Punishment: Redstone is removed & the faction receives 1 strike point.
- Spawner Y Level Limit
All spawners must be placed above y = 200, except blazes.- 1st Offence: Warning
- 2nd Offence: Value gets removed and placed above y=200, 2 strike points.
- Anti-Nukes
You may only have 1 chunk of anti-nukes on your walls. You are not allowed to have Anti-Nukes on your Counter Cannons or Cannon Box- Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to fix any existing illegalities. If the anti-nuke size is not reduced by the end of the grace period, it will be world edited out by staff and the faction will receive 1 strike point. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the anti-nuke will be forcibly removed by staff and the offending faction will receive 1 strike point.
- Splitting spawners
All spawners must be placed within the same box, except blazes. - If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to correct any existing illegalities. If more than 1 section remain after this time period, any separating walls will be removed by staff, and the faction will receive 3 strike points. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the faction will automatically receive 3 strike points and any separating walls will be removed by staff.
- Watered roof
There must be a singular, watered roof that covers all of the faction’s spawners.- Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to fix any existing illegalities. If the base roof is not watered by the end of the grace period, the roof will be world edited in and the offending faction will receive 3 strike points. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the base roof will be forcibly watered by staff and the offending faction will automatically receive 3 strike points.
- Buffer Counters
You may have two counter cannons per side. For corner bases, this would equate to 4 total counters. - Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to fix any existing illegalities. If the cannon has not been removed by the end of grace period, the cannon will be world-edited out and the offending faction will receive 3 strike points. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the counter cannon will be forcibly removed by staff and the offending faction will automatically receive 3 strike points.
- Ocean Size
You may only have one 16 block of ocean in width, 10 chunks maximum in length. This ocean cannot be split up and divided across your buffer.- Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to fix any existing illegalities. If the ocean size is not reduced by the end of the grace period, it will be world edited out by staff and the faction will receive 1 strike point. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the ocean will be forcibly removed by staff and the offending faction will receive 1 strike point.
- World Border Gap
Your Base Shell may be a maximum of 3 chunks away from the world border- Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to fix any existing illegalities. If no changes are made by the end of the grace period, it will be forcefully moved by staff and the faction will receive 1 strike point. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the base will be forcibly moved by staff and the offending faction will receive 1 strike point.
- Counter Cannon Wall Count.
You can have a maximum amount of 32 walls on your counter. The counter cannon box wall does not count as a wall. You may not put counter cannons behind one another to bypass wall count. - Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to correct any existing illegalities. If by the end of the grace period the illegal walls are not removed, they will be forcibly removed by staff and the offending faction will receive 1 strike point. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the faction will automatically receive 1 faction point and the defenses will be forcibly removed by staff.
- Illegal defenses
Defenses include enchantment tables, end portal frames, chests, trapped chests, fences, fence gates, cobwebs, cobblestone walls, carpets, banners, iron bars, beds, or any other block that sand cannot be stacked upon.Punishment: If the offense occurs during the grace period, the offending faction will be given until the end of the grace period to correct any existing illegalities. If by the end of the grace period the illegal defenses are not removed, they will be forcibly removed by staff and the offending faction will receive 1 strike point. If the offense occurs after the grace period, the faction will automatically receive 1 faction point and the defenses will be forcibly removed by staff.
[ Note: The illegal block must have impacted the raid for the strike to be deemed valid. ]
- Moving Bases
Each faction is permitted to move to their shield region once during the grace period only. Once TNT is enabled, the shield region chunk may not be moved.- Punishment: Shield region will be moved back to its original location, and the offending faction will receive 2 strike points.
Any attempt to bypass these rules will result in the same punishment.
Cannon Rules
If you are unsure if a cannon is allowed, please create a ticket.
(All decisions are made final by the Strike Team
regardless of whether it’s stated in the rules or not.)
Cannon Limits
- Cannon Speed
All cannons must abide to a 3.0+ second cannon speed rule. The speed is determined by the clock on the cannon. Cannon speed limit does not apply to cannons that shoot under y=15, rev-nukes need abide to the 3 second cannon speed, even when shooting under y=15 (e.g., The cannon breaks a wall every 3.0+ seconds).- Punishment: The offending faction receives 3 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Multiple Cannons
You may only shoot 1 cannon at a time (e.g., Firing two 255 nukes at one base is not allowed, one stacker with a reverse hybrid behind is allowed).- Punishment: The raiding faction receives 2 strike points. The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Cannon Size
You may not have more than 2.800 dispensers on your cannon, you are not allowed to bypass this by using a double or triple pulse. - Punishment: If the cannon hasn't been used yet the faction will receive a warning, otherwise Offending faction receives 3 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Cannon Float
You may not float outside of your raid / counter claim. - Punishment: Float will be asked to be moved within claims by the defending faction or staff member.
If ignored, the raiding faction will receive 2 strike points, Float will be removed and the defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Intentional Lag
Any cannon that is built in a way to intentionally lag the server. For example, a cannon that uses redstone/pistons in a way that is intended to cause server lag. - Multi Shot
Any cannon that shoots through more than 1 wall or reverse layer per button pressed is not allowed- Punishment: The offending faction receives 4 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Roof and Mid Air Cannons.
You may not use a roof under any circumstances. Any cannon that shoots above y = 255 is considered a roof cannon. Mid air cannons are allowed only to raid. You cannot use a mid-air cannon to counter a cannon box. - Punishment: The offending faction receives 3 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Auto Adjust
Cannons that auto-adjust are not allowed. - Punishment: The offending faction receives 2 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Sand Comp Limit
You can have a maximum of 2 sand comps on a cannon. - Punishment: The offending faction receives 3 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Horizontal Nukes
Wall removers and Horizontal nukes are not allowed.- Punishment: The offending faction receives 3 strike points, the player(s) involved in building and/or firing the cannon will be banned for the remainder of the map.
The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- Claimed Cannon
All cannons must be claimed while shooting.- Punishment: The offending faction receives 1 strike point. The defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable.
- U Fusions
U fusions are not allowed. Any cannon that triangles more than once is considered a U fusion. - Punishment: Offending faction receives 3 strike points and any damage caused is rolled backed if applicable.
- Left & Right Shooting
Left and/or right shooting is not allowed.- Punishment: Offending faction receives 3 strike points and any damage caused is rolled backed if applicable.
- Double Barrel Cannons.
Cannons that shoot at two different spots at the same time are strictly prohibited. - Punishment: Offending faction receives 2 strike points and any damage caused is rolled backed if applicable.
- Corner Nukes
Corner Nukes are not allowed.- Punishment: Offending faction receives 2 strike points and any damage caused is rolled backed if applicable.
- Overstackers
Overstacking is allowed, but is limited to a height of 10 blocks.- Punishment: Offending faction receives 3 strike points and any damage caused is rolled backed if applicable.
Any attempt to bypass these rules will result in the same punishment.
Raiding and Defending Rules
If you are unsure about any of the rules, please create a ticket.
The raid ends when the raiding factions gets countered or has not shot for 10 minutes.
- Grace
The raid ends when the raiding factions gets countered or has not shot for 10 minutes, when the raid ends the defending faction receives 30 minutes of grace.
When a faction is on grace you are not allowed to shoot at their walls, however pvp is still allowed. - Punishment: In the case of failing to wait the full 30 minutes grace to start firing earlier, if the outcome of the raid negatively impacted the defending faction, the offending faction will receive 2 strike points and the defending faction will be rolled back if applicable. If the outcome of the raid is not significantly affected, the offending faction will receive a verbal warning (strike team discretion).
- Patching
Printer, gen or sandbot patching whilst being shot at is not allowed. You have to wait 10 minutes after the last shot before you can start patching with printer, sandbots and genbuckets. You are not allowed to defend your buffer or cannon box by patching in wilderness outside of your claim. This includes patching an enemy faction's float.- Punishment: Player will be banned for 1 day. If the wilderness patches affected the outcome of the raid in a significant way (as determined by the senior staff team), the offending faction would receive 1 strike point.
- Raid Claim Size.
Raid claims can be a max of 11x11 chunk claims. The claims must be a minimum of 4x4 chunks. Your float must be within your 11x11 claim.- First Offence: Offending faction receives verbal warning.
- Second Offence: Offending faction will receive one strike point.
- Offence Float: Offending faction receives 2 strike points & any damage caused is rolled back. The player(s) who are involved will be banned in 1 day.
- Raid Claim Limit
During the raid, you may only use one cannon from one raid claim at a time. If you wish to switch to using a different raid claim, you must wait 15 minutes after the last TNT shot from the cannon in the original raid claim. - Punishment: In the case of failing to wait the full 15 minutes before switching to firing a cannon in a different raid claim, if the outcome of the raid negatively impacted the defending faction, the offending faction will receive 2 strike points and the defending faction will be rolled back if applicable. If the outcome of the raid is not significantly affected, the offending faction will receive a verbal warning (Senior Team discretion).
- Raid Cooldown.
Different factions cannot raid the same base simultaneously.
* A faction receives 30 minutes grace after the raid has finished. - Punishment: The offending faction receives 2 strike points, and the defending faction is rolled back if applicable.
- Switching Raid Claims
A singular faction may not shoot at more than one side of the same base. You must wait 15 minutes before switching cannons since the last shot was fired. (e.g., If you wish to switch to using a different raid claim, you must wait 15 minutes after the last TNT shot from the cannon in the original raid claim)- Punishment: In the case of failing to wait the full 15 minutes before switching to firing a cannon in a different raid claim, if the outcome of the raid negatively impacted the defending faction, the offending faction will receive 2 strike points and the defending faction will be rolled back if applicable. If the outcome of the raid is not significantly affected, the offending faction will receive a verbal warning (strike team discretion).
- Interfering With A Raid
A raid or counter-cannon attempt can only be between 2 factions. Interfering with another faction's raid is classified as a third faction, party, or player that PvPs or “spectates” the raiding or the defending faction at the place of the raid, or interferes at any raid claims or counterclaims. You may not assist a faction in any way whilst they are raiding / being raided . You may not pass on information that may give an advantage to the raiding or defending faction (i.e., checking buffers for other factions).- Punishment: 1 Day Ban for any player interfering (Staff Discretion).
- Switching Counters
You must wait 5 minutes after your last TNT shot before beginning to use a different buffer counter cannon. You must wait 15 minutes after your last TNT shot before beginning to use a side counter cannon.
(i.e., if you are raiding with a buffer counter and want to switch to a side counter, you must wait 15 minutes. If you wish to switch to your second buffer counter you must wait 5 minutes.)- Punishment: The offending faction receives 1 verbal warning, and the defending faction is rolled back if applicable.
- B-claiming
B-claiming is only allowed during TNT, not during the grace period. If another faction does not claim their land, that is their own fault. - Punishment: Land unclaimed by a staff member.
- Sandwands
You are not allowed to sandwand an active TNT shot to prevent the shot from working. - Cross World Raiding
You may not use your buffer counter to shoot at another faction’s base or their counter cannon.- Punishment: The offending faction will receive 2 strike points.
- Cannon Box Wall Count
Cannon Boxes may have 24 walls on each side. The Cannon box wall does not count as a wall. You are not allowed to have an ocean on your cannon box. You may only have a 1 block gap between cannon box walls, you are not allowed any anti-nukes/finnsters walls on your cannon box. - Punishment: Offending faction receives 1 strike points.
- Mining Spawners
You are not allowed to mine spawners when being raided, not on shield or just before TNT is enabled.- Punishment: Offending faction spawners will be given to the raiding faction. (Staff Discretion)
- Countering Float.
You may not counter someone by blowing up their float blocks/ adjust box.- Punishment: The offending faction receives 2 strike points, the defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable (Senior Staff Discretion).
- Counter on Shield
You may not be allowed to shoot your buffer counter when you are on an active shield. You are allowed to make a side counter and counter the raid cannon with that- Punishment: The offending faction receives 1 strike point, the defending faction will receive a rollback if applicable (Senior Staff Discretion).
