Server Rules.

Astroworld stays clean. No swearing, or other curse words in chat. Includes English and other languages. The chat filter blocks most of these but if you bypass it (typing f.uck, sh!t, fck, etc.) the same rule applies.

This counts in: server chat, party chat, signs, books, item names, builds visible to others, Discord general channels.

This is the one rule we take seriously from the first time. Family-friendly does not mean we let slurs slide.

We don't care about context. "I was joking", "we're all friends", "it's just a meme" doesn't apply here. If you wouldn't say it to a 12-year-old's parents, don't say it on Astroworld.

Don't fill the chat with the same message, random characters, or all caps for entire sentences.

Main server chat is English. This keeps the conversation accessible to everyone. If you want to talk in another language, use party chat, DMs, or the language-specific Discord channels (we add them when there is enough demand).

This is not "no other languages allowed ever". It's "main chat works best in English". Greetings, short phrases, or one-line responses in another language are fine.

Don't promote other Minecraft servers, Discord servers, websites, or services in chat. This includes IPs, links, names, or even hints ("come to our better server").

Players disagree. That's fine. What's not fine: turning a small argument into a war that floods chat or follows people around the server.

If you're frustrated with another player: - Take it to /msg or party chat - Use /ignore <player> if you don't want to see their messages - Report to staff via /support on the website if it's serious - Walk away from the keyboard for a minute if you need to

What we look at when an argument is reported: who started it, whether it stayed in chat or escalated to harassment, whether either player tried to de-escalate, whether anyone broke other rules during the argument.

Most arguments end with a warning to both sides and a reminder to use /ignore.

Don't post about how a player did you wrong in main chat. Don't try to rally other players against someone. Don't make alts to "expose" people.

If something genuinely went wrong, file a report through /support. We read every one.

Don't pretend to be staff. This means: - Don't use a name that looks like a staff member's - Don't claim you're "with the team" if you're not - Don't tell players you can ban them if you can't - Don't say "the owner said it's okay" if it isn't

Real staff have visible rank tags in chat (Mod, Admin, Helper, etc.). If someone says they're staff but doesn't have the tag, they aren't.

The hub is your landing spot. From here you go to /survival, the PvP warp, the store NPC, and other features.

These features are simply blocked in hub on purpose. We list this here so you know why your /home doesn't work in spawn.

PvP is opt-in in the survival world. By default it's off. Use `/pvp on` if you want to fight other players. Use `/pvp off` to turn it back off.

**Where PvP is always on:** the PvP warp (you knew what you signed up for going there). **Where PvP is always off:** spawn / hub world. **Where PvP is your choice:** survival world, anywhere outside the PvP warp.

**Important:** if your /pvp is OFF, no one can hit you. If you turn it on and lose, that was your choice. No refunds for items lost in fair PvP. You cannot toggle /pvp on, attack someone, then toggle off mid-fight to escape. The system has a cooldown for this. Trying to abuse it is treated as exploit (see Cheating section).

Claims are protected. You cannot break or place blocks on someone else's claim unless they trust you. This means actual physical griefing is impossible.

What still counts as griefing and IS punishable: building giant ugly structures right next to someone's base in unclaimed land specifically to annoy them, spamming lava water or fire near the edge of someone's claim hoping it leaks in, leaving signs with insults or personal attacks where another player will see them, trapping a player using shared trust permissions.

Claim what you build. Claim what you use regularly.

If a player has clearly abandoned a claim (months inactive, no content), staff can review and unclaim it on request via /support. We don't auto-unclaim, you have to ask.

Building elaborate redstone or terrain to trap players is fine in PvP zones and on land where they trusted you. Doing it in spawn-adjacent areas, public roads, or to lure players into death is not.

If a player trusts you (`/trust <player>`) on their claim, you have access. Use that responsibly.

Breaking down their build, stealing from their chests, or modifying their stuff without permission is theft, even if technically you have the perms.

This is one of the few "minor" categories where we go straight to a long ban on first offense. Trust violations destroy player confidence and we don't tolerate it.

If you're not sure if a mod is cheating, ask in /support BEFORE you use it. If you got the mod from a "Minecraft hack" YouTube video, it's probably banned.

We have logs. We can prove it. Don't bother appealing with "it was my brother" - the appeal will be denied.

If a mod gives you info or actions the vanilla game wouldn't, it crosses the line.

If you find a bug that lets you duplicate items, bypass economy, dupe money, skip claim protection, or break the game's normal limits - stop immediately and report it via /support.

Reporting a bug honestly: we may give you a small reward for finding it. Exploiting a bug you find: temporary ban + items removed + economy reset for items affected. Sharing a bug with other players to exploit together: longer temp ban + permanent reputation hit if it happens again.

Don't disconnect from the server while taking damage from another player to escape death. The server kills you anyway after a few seconds, but trying counts.

Don't intentionally lag the server. Most of this is also blocked by the server itself. If you find a way around the limits, that's an exploit (see 3.3).

A scam is when you take someone's money or items without giving what was agreed.

The safe way to do a player-to-player exchange is `/trade <player>`. Both sides put their offer in, both confirm, the swap is atomic. No one can swap items at the last second.

Doing trades through dropping items on the ground or putting things in unlocked chests is at your own risk. We won't refund items lost to "scams" that happened outside of /trade.

This isn't a punishment, just a heads up: use the tools that protect you.

The only way to spend real money on Astroworld is the official /store. That's it.

Why? RMT introduces scams, account theft, and chargeback fraud. It's also against Mojang's EULA which we follow.

Set whatever prices you want in your chest shops. Free market.

If you sell garbage at premium prices and players still buy it, that's their problem and your win.

Alts are allowed (see Account section), but you cannot use multiple accounts to abuse systems.

Vote rewards are tied to your IP, not your account. If we detect alt voting we will null the rewards.

Family-friendly applies to builds the same way it applies to chat.

This applies to anything other players can see: surface builds, signs, item frames, banners, command-block art, books left in public.

We don't go hunting in private claimed bases. Build whatever offends you in your own home. Just don't put it where new players see it.

Don't dot the world with 1x1 claims you'll never use. Don't claim every chunk you happen to walk through.

The claim system has limits per player. We won't enforce extra rules unless someone is clearly gaming the system to lock out specific areas.

If your claim is empty 60+ days and someone wants to use the land, staff can review and unclaim through /support.

Building near these is fine. Claiming over them or blocking them is not.

Spawn is for new players to land safely. Move your operations 200+ blocks out. Spawn is shared space.

You can play with multiple Minecraft accounts. We don't restrict this. We DO restrict using alts to abuse systems (see rule 4.5 about economy abuse).

If you give your account password to someone - friend, sibling, "trusted" stranger - anything they do is on you. Bans from their behavior apply to your account.

Think twice before sharing logins. We don't reverse "but it was my friend" bans.

Don't put your Astroworld progress up for sale on third-party sites. Don't buy someone else's account to skip the early game.

This is similar to RMT (rule 4.3) but specifically about full account ownership. Same rules, same consequences.

If your account is banned and you join on an alt, that alt gets banned too. If you keep making new accounts, we ban your IP, then your range, then we forward to Mojang.

The way to come back is to wait out your ban or appeal through /support. Not to make alts.

We will never ask for your password. Not in DMs, not in /msg, not in Discord. Anyone claiming to be staff and asking for your password is impersonating staff - see rule 1.8.

If you forget your account password, that's between you and Mojang/Microsoft, not us. We can't help.

If you're a Founder/OG or staff, please enable 2FA on your Discord account. It protects you from account takeovers that would let someone post in our community as you.

This is a recommendation, not a rule. We can't enforce it. We just strongly suggest it.

Use one of these: - `/support` on the server (opens the website support page) - The "Submit a report" form on astroworldmc.com/support - DM a Mod or Admin in Discord (visible in the member list)

We read every /support submission. We don't always reply, but we read.

If a staff member tells you something - to stop, to take it to /msg, to file a report - listen. If you disagree with the call, take it to /support and we'll review.

Arguing in main chat after a staff direction is itself a separate rule break.

If you think a mute, ban, or warning was unfair, file an appeal through /support. Be specific about what happened, why you think it's wrong, and what evidence supports you.

We review appeals as a team, not just by the staff member who made the call. Bring receipts.

We don't do appeals through DMs, in-game chat, or Discord pings to specific staff. The /support form goes to the whole team.

Don't see how close you can get to a slur before the chat filter triggers. Don't try variations of banned words to see what gets through. Don't keep poking the mod to see when they'll snap.

We notice patterns. The consequences for "testing" stack on top of the original rule break.

If you file repeated reports we can prove are fake or malicious (made-up incidents, framing other players, etc.), that's a rule break.

We'd rather have 100 reports that turn out to be misunderstandings than miss a real issue. Be honest, file the report, and we'll figure it out.

Staff are not online 24/7. Some reports take a few hours. Some take a day. Big incidents take longer because we have to gather evidence and discuss.

Spamming "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO ACT" doesn't help. It's already on our list.

Each channel has a specific purpose. Posting off-topic in a specific channel: warning, message moved or deleted. Repeated: short Discord mute.

Don't DM members of our Discord with promos for your own server, Discord, business, OnlyFans, crypto scheme, NFT project, anything. We see it. Members report it. Bans follow.

We don't warn for cold-DM advertising. There's no good-faith version.

No NSFW images, videos, links, or stickers. This includes "borderline" content, suggestive jokes that go too far, and anime-style content that's clearly suggestive.

Spamming reactions on every message (especially old ones) clogs feeds for everyone. Don't.

If a reaction is clearly mocking another user (downvote-spam, clown emoji harassment), that's reaction harassment.

When in voice: don't blast loud music or earrape audio, don't soundboard spam, don't follow players to voice channels they leave to escape you, mute yourself if you're loudly typing or eating.

If staff asks you to lower your volume or mute, do it.

If you get permanently banned on Discord, you're also banned on the server. If you get permanently banned on the server, you're also banned on Discord.

We don't run two parallel reputations. One community, one set of rules.