Community
Rules
These rules cover the Fractured Skies Minecraft server, gang chat and Discord. Not knowing a rule is not an excuse, and staff may act on behaviour that breaks their spirit.
Updated
In-game
How you play, mine and trade inside the prison.
- No cheating. X-ray, auto-clickers held down while you are away, macros that mine or sell for you, fly, reach, and any client that automates play are all bannable. Reporting yourself before we find it gets you a shorter punishment.
- No alt accounts for profit. One account per person for voting, vote rewards, free store items and gang slots. Alts used to farm rewards are banned along with the main account.
- No real-money trading. Do not sell or buy prison cash, ranks, accounts or items for real money, on any platform. Prison cash has no real-world value and cannot be cashed out.
- No exploiting bugs. If a duplication bug, a shop price error or a mine reset exploit makes you money, stop and report it. Using it once is a rollback; using it repeatedly is a ban.
- Scamming is not allowed. Trades and gang vault access are agreements. Taking someone’s items by lying about a deal will be reversed and punished.
- Do not block the mines. Placing blocks to trap players, walling off ore, or building in a mine to interfere with others is not allowed.
- Being AFK in a mine is fine; AFK farming rewards is not. Standing in a mine doing nothing is your business. Rigging a client or a device to keep you active for vote streaks or playtime rewards is not.
- What you agree to stands. Walking into
/warp pvpmeans accepting that you can lose what you are carrying, and accepting a coin flip or an item flip means accepting the result. Neither is refunded or rolled back. - Staff decisions are final in the moment. If you think a punishment was wrong, appeal it afterwards rather than arguing in chat.
Chat & Discord
The same rules apply in game chat, gang chat and every Discord channel.
- No slurs, harassment or hate speech. This covers race, religion, gender, sexuality and disability. There is no warning for slurs.
- Keep it broadly safe for work. No sexual content, no gore, no shock links. Assume a thirteen-year-old is reading, because one is.
- No spam. Do not repeat the same message, flood chat with characters, or use chat colours to make a message unreadable.
- No advertising. Do not post other server addresses, Discord invites or referral links. Sharing your own video or stream of this server is fine and encouraged.
- Do not share other people’s information. No real names, addresses, photos, workplaces or accounts without their permission. Sharing someone’s information is a permanent ban.
- English in public channels. Other languages are welcome in DMs and gang chat; public chat stays in English so staff can moderate it.
- Do not impersonate staff. No nicknames, tags or profiles built to look like a staff member. Staff will never ask for your password or send you a login link.
- Arguments about punishments go to tickets. Not public chat, not DMs to staff.
Clients & mods
What you may run alongside the game, and what gets you banned for it.
Anything that plays for you is banned. Anything that changes what you see is generally fine.
Is OptiFine allowed on Fractured Skies?
Yes. OptiFine is allowed on Fractured Skies, along with Sodium, Lithium, Iris and shader packs, because they only change how the game looks and runs. Anything that plays for you or shows what you should not see gets you banned: X-ray, auto-clickers, macros, radar and movement hacks. If you are unsure about a mod, ask in a ticket before installing it.
Allowed
- Performance and rendering mods. Sodium, Lithium, Iris, OptiFine and the usual shader packs. Download them from these official pages; copies on other sites can carry malware.
- Information overlays. Minimaps without a cave or entity radar, inventory tweaks that do not automate clicking, keystroke and FPS overlays.
- Resource packs, including ones that make ores easier to see. Everyone can install those, so they are not an advantage.
- Recording and streaming software. Replay Mod included.
Banned
- X-ray, in any form: mods, resource packs that make stone invisible, or a texture pack edited to do the same.
- Automation: auto-clickers, macros, auto-sell scripts, auto-rankup scripts, and anything that keeps mining while you are away from the keyboard.
- Movement and combat modification: fly, speed, reach, no-fall, kill aura.
- Radar of any kind: entity radar, player radar, chest ESP.
- Multi-account tooling used to run more than one account at once.
If you are not sure whether a mod is allowed, ask in a ticket before you install it. “I did not know” is not a defence, but asking first is a complete one.
Punishments scale with severity and history, from a warning to a permanent ban. If you think a punishment was a mistake, appeal it here.
New players meet the rules that matter most in the getting started guide. The server address and the join steps are on the join page.