Server Rules & Guidelines

1. Cheats, Hacks & Client Mods (Zero Tolerance)

Semi-no-rules provides freedom inside normal survival mechanics, but cheating and unfair client automation are strictly prohibited. The following will get you permanently banned without warning:

• Cheats & Hacked Clients (Permanent Ban): X-ray texture packs/mods, killaura, fly hacks, speed hacks, reach, freecam, seed finders, auto-clickers, and botting scripts like Baritone. Play with standard vanilla survival mechanics.
• Doxxing, DDoS & Real-Life Drama (Permanent Ban): Any IP grabbing, DDoS threats, harassment, or digging into players' real-life identities (no calling people's families, schools, or employers). Keep everything strictly inside the game.
• Identity Slurs & Hate Speech (Permanent Ban): Racial, ethnic, or gender-based slurs and hate speech bring an immediate permanent ban. Casual swearing out of frustration is allowed (though automated in-game warnings remind you it is discouraged), but slurs and targeted hate speech are zero tolerance.
• Lag Machines (Permanent Ban): Intentionally building redstone lag machines, entity crammers, or chunk loaders meant to lag or crash the server.
• Duping Glitches (Permanent Ban): Any form of item duplication exploit. Duped inventories are cleared and all players involved are permanently banned.
• Allowed Mods: Client-side optimization mods (Sodium, Iris shaders, Lithium, OptiFine), simple HUD mods, and basic minimaps (without entity radar, player tracking, or cave mapping). If you are unsure whether a mod is allowed, ask in Discord before logging in with it.
• Combat Logging: Disconnecting or force-quitting during combat triggers an automatic death that drops your inventory where you stood.

2. Base Raiding, Griefing & Wilderness Survival

How survival works under our semi-no-rules direction:

• No Protected Land Claims or Bubble: There is no protected spawn bubble or claim rollback system. Outside of the immediate starter docks, the entire map is open survival. Claims no longer prevent base raiding or roll back griefing.
• Griefing & Base Raiding Allowed: Raiding rival bases, breaching defenses with TNT, looting chests, and taking builds is allowed. There is no rollback of raided blocks or looted items.
• Stealing & Wild Looting: Any chests, containers, farms, or structures discovered anywhere in the wilderness are fair game to loot.
• Open-World PvP: Combat is enabled across the map outside spawn docks—ambushes, bounties, and team skirmishes. Trust other players at your own risk.
• Survival Economy & Free Barter: Earn balance by selling resources to the server via /sell and /shop, trade player surplus in /auction, send funds with /pay, or trade physical diamonds directly without artificial server taxes.
• Alliances & Clan Bases: You are free to group up, coordinate defenses, establish alliances, and build secret shared bases anywhere you choose.
• Performance & Visual Mods: Client-side optimization mods (Sodium, Iris shaders, Lithium, OptiFine) and clean HUDs are welcomed.
• How to Keep Your Stuff Safe:

  Because claims no longer prevent raiding or roll back griefing, you need to rely on vanilla survival instincts:

  1. Travel far from spawn: Do not build within sight of (0, 0) or the spawn docks. Head several thousand blocks out into the wilderness.
  2. Hide your base: Underground vaults, hidden entrances disguised under natural terrain, and off-axis travel keep your base hidden.
  3. Guard your coordinates: Never stream or share your F3 debug coordinates with people you do not trust.

3. Economy, Selling & Marketplace

A fair survival economy without pay-to-win:

• Virtual Economy & Balance: FiestaSMP features an optional, survival-friendly virtual economy backed by EssentialsX and Vault. Players earn balance by selling gathered resources, crops, and mob drops. Check balance with /bal, item worth with /worth, and the balance leaderboard with /baltop.
• Selling Items & Price Catalog: /sell opens the sell window. /shop is an in-game price catalog.
• Community Marketplace & Player Payments: Items sold through the sell window rotate into /auction, where players can buy community-sold surplus with their balance. Players can pay each other with /pay <player> <amount>. There are no pay-to-win kits, paid currency ranks, or infinite admin buy shops.
• Optional Compact HUD: The optional compact HUD shows balance, kills, deaths, and playtime. Players toggle it with /hud.
• Java and Bedrock Cross-Play: The server uses Geyser-Spigot and Floodgate for cross-play. Core economy commands and balance updates work on both Java and Bedrock. Java players use normal mouse interactions in inventory menus, while Bedrock players use Geyser's translated inventory menus where item movement uses tap-to-select rather than mouse dragging. TAB uses a dual-column scoreboard for Java and a single-line layout for Bedrock to avoid formatting problems.
• Physical Barter & Disabled Features: Automated chest shops and /trade menus are disabled. Players can still barter manually in-game.
• Example Prices: Apples $1.50 each; bamboo $0.20 each; rotten flesh $0.50 each; bone $1.25 each; gunpowder $2.50 each; ender pearls $5.00 each; blaze rods $6.00 each; ghast tears $25.00 each; wither skeleton skulls $75.00 each.
• No Real-Money Trading (RMT): Selling or buying in-game items, accounts, or bases for real-world money is strictly prohibited and will get both parties banned.

4. Chat, Swearing & Real-Life Conduct

We want chat to feel natural without turning into real-life toxicity:

• Casual Swearing & In-Game Warnings: Ordinary swearing used casually or out of frustration is allowed. The in-game chat monitor may issue automated warnings reminding you that swearing is discouraged, but casual profanity alone is not a punishable offense unless it goes too far.
• Zero Tolerance for Slurs & Hate Speech (Permanent Ban): Identity-based slurs, racial or ethnic slurs, and severe harassment are strictly prohibited under zero tolerance. There are no warnings for slurs or hate speech: anyone using them will receive an immediate permanent ban.
• No Doxxing or Threats (Permanent Ban): Any real-life harassment, posting private personal information (doxxing), IP grabbing, DDoS threats, or harassing someone's family/school will get you permanently banned and reported. Keep all conflict strictly inside the game.
• No Advertising: Do not post invite links to other Minecraft servers or commercial promotions.
• Account Authentication & Responsibility: Both premium and offline-mode accounts are supported. When joining for the first time, follow the in-game GUI authentication prompt to secure your username. The in-game GUI prompt helps prevent automated spam bots from affecting the player count. Whatever actions happen under your username are your responsibility.

5. Map Resets & World Downloads

Map resets happen only when the community agrees to a fresh start. We always give a formal 45-day notice before any reset so you have plenty of time to finish your projects and take screenshots.

6. Reports & Appeals

How to handle issues with other players or bans:

• Reporting Cheaters: If you catch someone using hacks (fly, speed, X-ray, killaura) or building lag machines, open a ticket on Discord with video clips or screenshots.
• Ban Appeals: If you believe a ban was made by mistake, fill out our Ban Appeal Form or submit an appeal ticket on Discord. Appeals are reviewed directly by staff.

FiestaSMP is an independent player-run Minecraft survival server and is not affiliated with Mojang Studios or Microsoft. For server contact, email fiestamg@murena.io.