Welcome to the current ManaCube Faction Rules. When playing on Factions, you are expected to read and abide by these rules. "Not having read the rules" is not a valid excuse.
Breaking these rules may result in punishment and warning points given. Please refer to the Warning Points article for specific information.
These rules are not an exhaustive list of what is and isn’t allowed. They are subject to change and can be updated by staff at any time. Warnings are given at staff discretion. Players who clearly know what they are doing may not receive any warnings.
Finally, false reporting players or hindering a staff member’s ability to moderate will result in punishment.
WARNING: Rule Bending, misinterpreting, finding loopholes or warping the meaning of the rules for an advantage are not permitted. In such cases, the situation will be reviewed by higher staff and appropriate punishments will be given.
¶ General Information
DISCLAIMER: All of the punishment paths provided are guides and may vary depending on the severity of the case.
- TP Killing and trapping players are allowed in both claimed and unclaimed land. Teleport to players or accept teleport requests at your own risk.
- Inappropriate land/faction names are not tolerated. Staff determine what is considered inappropriate. This will largely follow chat rules.
- Inactivity for 7 days will remove you from your faction. If you are the leader, faction leadership will be passed to the next highest ranking member.
- You are allowed to raid or grief any faction on the server.
- A faction may have temporary truces with other factions. Factions who are “truced” may not work as a team or assist each other in any way. They may not have a permanent mutual agreement to not target each other in PvP, KOTH, or raiding.
- Factions are NOT allowed to have any allies. If 2+ factions are “allied,” they help each other to be successful by assisting each other in pvp, koth, defending, or raiding.
- Left shooting mechanics are disabled and not allowed. Please refer to Cannon Rules
- Claiming a corner with only the intent to sell it is not allowed. You may not hold a corner if you do not plan to play the map.
- Any "roof art" used must be appropriate according to our “inappropriate build” guidelines.
Several rules explain what you cannot do with unclaimed land. Please note the list below:
Scamming players while trading IS allowed. To trade with a player safely, use the /trade feature.
Scamming for cubits[1] is NOT allowed and global scamming punishments will be issued with 1 faction warning point.
Auction House Scamming is not allowed
Posting scam auction listings in the auction house is not allowed. The auction house should be a safe place to buy and sell items for all players.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 1d Global Ban | 3d Global Ban | Permanent Global Ban |
| Warning Points | Warning points may be issued based on the severity of the scam. | ||
Factions are not allowed to team in KOTH, Lone Survivor Events, PvP or in the volcano.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Boosting player stats by killing alts, paying other players so you may kill them, or any other means are not allowed. All accounts involved with stat boosting will be banned, including the main and alt accounts.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | Staff Warning* | 1d Local Ban | 3d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*If players refuse to stop after the staff warning, they will be punished for the second offense.
Adding alts to your faction or faction roster to increase your faction power or bypass the faction's alt limit is not allowed. You may also not account share to bypass faction limits.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | Staff Warning | 7d Local Ban* | Seasonal Ban* |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 |
*The main account and all alts will be removed from the faction.
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Encasing Spawners
Using any block or item to block/cover spawners so they cannot be cegged or tnted is NOT allowed. Spawners placed underwater can be blown up.
Instances of encasing spawners include but are not limited to:
- Completely covering spawners
- Putting spawners in faction walls
- Placing spawners across the ceiling
- Using water with doors[2]
- Surrounding or covering spawners with a line of doors/trap doors
- Using the world border to protect spawners
- Any other methods that make it incredibly difficult to blow up the spawners.
All spawners must be placed in vertical pillars with a minimum height of 5 blocks high. Spawner pillars must be a size of 5 or larger before creating a new pillar. Spawners must also have a minimum distance of 2 blocks away from any type of wall or ceiling, which includes base shells. All spawners must be easily ceggable.
You may not evade these rules by placing blocks around instead of on the spawners. This still counts as encasing and is punishable.
If the situation is found during a raid, the spawners will be given to the raiding faction.
If this occurs, your protections and protected spawners will be removed and appropriate punishment given. For Minor Encasing, a staff warning may be issued for the first offense. Cases of Major Vs. Minor encasing will be determined by staff.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Blowing Up Spawners
You may not blow up spawners in order to bypass the mining tax. If this does occur, spawners that are blown up will be removed from you, and a punishment will be issued to all members involved.
If the situation is found during a raid, any spawners that were blown up will be given to the raiding faction.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Insiding
Insiding occurs when you steal value from your own faction or teleport enemies into your base. Valuable items include (but are not limited to) enchanted diamond tools/armor, exclusive crate items, spawners, creeper eggs, and valuable ores.
For a punishment to be issued, the value stolen must be significant enough to affect the faction's value.
Criteria that is considered Insiding:
- Teleporting enemy faction members into your base
- Mining or destroying Valuable Items without faction permission to give to another faction or cause significant faction value loss
- Transferring a large amount of money, tnt, or spawners if leaving your faction to join another.
- Un-Claiming Faction Land[3]
- Griefing that causes significant faction value loss
- Significant Lava and water griefing
- Weakening Faction Defenses / Security
Allowed criteria that isn’t considered Insiding:
- Griefing that doesn’t cause F-Top value loss
- Teleporting others outside of faction claims
- Revealing faction coordinates to the public
Items lost to insiding will only be returned if there is detailed proof on what was lost. If a player is kicked from a faction while in the base, that player may not immediately raid and must remove any set homes. They must leave the faction base as soon as they are removed.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | |
| Punishment | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban | |
| Warning Points | Warning points will be subject to the extent of insiding | ||
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Bases and Valuables
Factions may only have 1 main base where they store all their value and set their base chunk. Factions are allowed 1 corner claim but unless it is a main base, it can only be used for storage and bases that do not include spawners.
All faction bases must be a minimum of 3x3 chunks (9 total chunks) and a maximum size of 8x8 chunks (64 total chunks). Bases can have a maximum of 3 boxes to hold their spawners.
NOTE: You cannot abuse base chunks by breaking and replacing in order to create multiple locations where spawners are stored.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | N/A | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Hiding, Distributing, or Sharing Wealth
Hiding wealth is when significant valuables or amounts of money are stored on an alt account or in an alternative location. You may not hide items in the auction house or have items hidden in containers, raid claims, separate bases, etc. This applies to BOTH claimed and unclaimed land.
You may not hide your wealth. If you are caught doing so the wealth may be removed.
WARNING: You cannot abuse base chunks by breaking and replacing in order to create multiple locations where spawners are stored.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 7d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Factions may also not distribute / share valuable items or significant amounts of money to another faction.
This includes but is not limited to:
Enchanted diamond tools & armor
Exclusive crate items
Spawners
Creeper eggs
Valuable ores
Significant amounts of TNT[4]
All significant "gifts," "donations," or one-sided trades that affect F-Top Value will result in punishments for the offending players.
Bypassing this rule by temporarily leaving the faction, allowing other factions to kill you or using any other means will be reviewed and likely result with the same punishments or worse.
NOTE: Faction grinders may not be shared with other factions or individual players.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | N/A | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Illegal Base & Raid Defenses
You may not use unbreakable blocks to defend or patch your base, cannon, or autocannon because they gives an unfair advantage. Slabs are allowed to be used as a base defense.
These include (but are not limited to):
Cobblestone walls-
Banners 
Fences
Anvils
Cactus
Cobwebs- Any block that sand cannot properly stack on
You may have a maximum of 3 chunks of finnsters (Anti-Nuke walls) as a base defense.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | Staff Warning | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 |
While the use of Printer, Genbuckets, and Magic Sand are allowed to build bases/defenses, they are NOT allowed to be used during a raid, whether to build more walls or to patch existing defenses. You may use them again 10 minutes after the last cannon shot is fired.
NOTE: Players cannot line their base walls with Magic Sand blocks because it generates an OP wall that regenerates.
If you are caught using these during a raid you will be punished.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Chunk Buffer Limits
Factions that claim land are allowed a maximum of 15 chunk claims away from their base on all sides. Buffer claims start at the first outside wall of the actual base.
In the case of two faction bases sharing the same area, they must both have their own base claimed. This includes their main base and buffer zone. One faction may not claim the buffer or main base for the other faction.
If you choose to make a gap between your base and the first wall, the gap cannot exceed 2 chunks in length.
There must be a gap of 40 chunks between all factions.[5] This gap begins from the end of a faction's buffer zone.
Any farms, counter-cannons or additional claims may not be used to exceed the buffer limit. If counter cannons are claimed during and after a raid, they must be unclaimed accordingly after the raid. More information can be found under Anti-Raid claims
If these limits are broken the following will apply.
| Offense | 1st* | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | N/A | 1d Local Ban | 3d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*Staff may give a Staff Warning before issuing a warning point depending on the severity of the case.
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Claim Trapping
Unless with the intent of raiding, the act of a faction using their own claims to block and prevent another faction from expanding is NOT allowed.
During the grace period of a new season, it is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE for the factions who claim along the border. Blocking another faction after a corner/border has been claimed will result in the removal of the more recent claims.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | N/A | 1d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Raid Claims
When raiding a faction’s base, you’re allowed to place 1 raid claim. This claim must be between 2x2 chunks and 15x15 chunks in size. Raid claims may be expanded by a maximum of 5 chunks to account for the guider. Those chunks may only be used for the guider and cannot act as an overextension of your raid claim for cannons/defenses. You must claim all of your raid claims.[6]
Defenses built in the wilderness will result in a faction warning and if it continues players may be punished.
To allow for counter cannons you must leave a 7 chunk gap on one side of your raid claim. You may also receive warning points if your faction attempts to build non-claimed defenses in the defending faction’s cannon line-of-fire.
You are expected to remove your raid claim in a timely manner. Raid claims remaining more than 6 hours after the last shot fired by cannon may be subject to punishment.
WARNING: You must use
/f raidclaim (time) (radius)to claim all Raid Claims. This creates a temporary raid claim that will auto-unclaim after a specified amount of time.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | Staff Warning | 1d Local Ban | 3d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*If players refuse to unclaim after the staff warning, they will move onto the second offense.
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Anti-Raid Claims
When defending your base from a raiding faction, you’re allowed to place 1 anti-raid claim to aid in the destruction of the raiding faction’s cannons. This claim is only allowed to contain 1 counter-cannon and can NOT be used as extra walls or other defenses. It must not be any larger than 10x10 chunks.
Anti-Raid claims may be expanded by a maximum of 5 chunks to account for the guider. Those chunks may only be used for the guider and cannot act as an overextension of your raid claim for cannons/defenses.
You must claim your anti-raid claim, including the walls of your cannon box. The anti-raid claim of a faction cannot act as a continued buffer.[7]
Defenses built in the wilderness or in the raiding faction’s line-of-fire will result in a faction warning point, and if this is continued players may be punished.
You are expected to remove your anti-raid claim as soon as the enemy faction’s raid claims have been removed. Warning points/punishments may be issued if this is not done in a timely manner since your anti-raid claim will be reclassified as an overextension of your buffer claims.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | Staff Warning* | 1d Local Ban | 3d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*If players refuse to unclaim after the staff warning, they will move onto the second offence.
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Cannons and Counter-Cannons
While cannon and counter-cannons are allowed, there are restrictions on what features and types of cannons are allowed.
- Cannon boxes are allowed a maximum of 20 protective walls.[8] However, buffer cannons can have over 20.
- Factions may only have 1 buffer counter-cannon for each side of their base. These buffer counter-cannons may only be used and fired on the side of the base they are built on. Modifying this cannon to shoot in another direction will be treated as a bypass of this rule and result in punishment.
- Only one cannon may be built in each Raid/Anti-Raid claim.
- You can NOT build or patch a cannon with unbreakable blocks. These include (but not limited to): cobblestone walls, banners, fences, anvils and cactus. These blocks are not seen as full blocks and do not break properly, giving an unfair advantage.
- You cannot patch a cannon if it is unclaimed. All cannons that are being used[9] must be claimed.
- Wilderness floating is not allowed.
- Players may not shoot using a cannon that is protected by a faction shield.
- The minimum cannon speed is 3 seconds.
- You can not have a cannon that shoots through more than 1 wall or reverse layer per button press.
- Left-shooting cannons are not allowed.
- Cannons can have a maximum of 3,000 dispensers.
- When using an overstacker cannon, the stack can be a maximum of 6. Any more than that is not allowed.
- You may not shoot a cannon box from behind. This includes cannons that are not located directly behind but are still able to shoot the back of it.
- You may not use roof cannons over Y Level 253, U Fusion Cannons[10], Midairing Cannons[11], Worm Cannons[12], Wall Removers, Horizontal Nukes, Phase cannons, Push Nukes, Corner Nukes, Double Barrel Cannon, Auto Adjust, or Up Down Nukes. If you are found to be using or have used one, the cannon will be removed and will result in punishment.
- Any means to bypass a factions protective walls is not allowed, and will be treated as bug abuse.
Breaking rules #1-12 in the General Info tab.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Punishment | Staff Warning | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Breaking rules #13 and 14 in the General Info tab.
(You may not shoot a cannon box from behind. This includes cannons that are not located directly behind but are still able to shoot the back of it.)
(The use of roof cannons over Y Level 253, U Fusion Cannons, Midairing Cannons, Worm Cannons, Wall Removers, Horizontal Nukes, Phase cannons, Push Nukes, Corner Nukes, Double Barrel Cannon, Auto Adjust, or Up Down Nukes)
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
U Fusion Cannon
Midairing Cannon
Roof Cannon (Not Allowed over Y Level 253)
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Multi-Raiding/Multi-Defending
Multi-raiding and Multi-defending are NOT allowed.
Examples of multi-raiding/defending include (but are not limited to):
- 2+ factions raiding the same base at the same time
- A faction raiding one base immediately after another faction finishes[13]
- 2+ factions taking turns without breaks to continuously raid a base
- 2+ factions defending a base together
- Players leaving one faction temporarily to join another to help with a raid.
WARNING: Factions are not allowed to share a base due to the zero ally limit.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 7d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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Interfering or Leeching Raids
While a faction is being raided, you may not interfere with the raid by PvP-ing the factions involved or joining in on the raid.
This includes and is not limited to:
- Hitting members
- Standing in their way
- Changing redstone
- Shooting arrows
However, you may have 1-2 members of your faction spectate the area to identify when they can raid. These members must be wearing NO armor and are spectating at their own risk. They may not stay and watch the raid, share information to support the factions being raided/raiding or generally interfere with the raid. Spectating faction members must use /f stealth to prevent disabling fly for defending and raiding factions.
These members may only spectate for a maximum of 5 minutes at a time, must then leave and can return 10 minutes later to spectate for another 5 minutes. This can continue for as long as the raid lasts.
30 minutes after the raid is finished the spectators may notify faction members to commence a raid.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 7d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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Faction Splitting/Alt Factions
Factions are not allowed to split to become two factions to exceed player limits or dominate F Top. If a faction does split, the two factions must remain completely separated for no punishments to be issued. If the act of splitting your faction would result in both appearing on F Top, then you will not be allowed to split.
You also cannot use an Alt Faction linked to your own faction to gain a second position on F Top, store TNT, or transfer people between the main and alt to increase party sizes. You must not accept people into your faction who have an Alt Faction.
Factions caught acting as one will be issued one warning point each and given 1 day to properly separate. Failure to comply will result in further punishments under staff discretion.
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Merging Factions
Factions may not merge during a season if either faction is on F-Top or would be placed on F-Top by the merge. They may only merge if the added f-top gain is removed by a Senior Staff.
This will be done at staff discretion and must be approved prior to merging.
In the case of an F-Top payout screenshot being taken while showing the merged value, the value will be deducted.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment* | 3d Local Ban | 14d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban for Faction Leaders |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*Removal of merged value
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External Modifications
The following modifications are not allowed to be used on Factions. This is not an exhaustive list of all mods that are/aren't allowed. Please refer to the Illegal/Allowed Modifications article.
- Any hacked client
- X-Ray Texture Packs or Clients
- Mini-Maps that show players
- Raid alerts
- Macros
- Inventory Tweaks
Please note that World Downloader is allowed.
Hacked Clients
| Offense | 1st | 2nd |
| Punishment | 14d Global Ban | Permanent Global Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 |
Other Mods
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
If any players are caught using macros, scripts or any modifications that may affect the economy, the value obtained from using external modifications will be removed under staff discretion. Value will be removed in the form of money, or spawner price calculated from /shop.
Any software that acts to inform your faction that your base may be under attack is disallowed and considered illegal. Enclosed or Redstone Checkboxes are also not allowed.
| Offense | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Punishment | 3d Local Ban | 7d Local Ban | Seasonal Ban |
| Warning Points | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Console Clients and Discord Bots are allowed. While using them to alert an on-going raid is allowed, any faction using software to detect raids will be punished.
Console Clients and Discord Bots are NOT allowed to perform any tasks that would give unfair, in-game advantages such as auto-selling or performing other in-game tasks while AFK. They may not be used to evade mutes.
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Cubit scamming only applies to trades made with items or currency. We do not protect any cubit deals for teaming, sharing information or any other non-physical trade. ↩︎
This is not ceggable ↩︎
To cause faction value loss ↩︎
Significant amounts of TNT may not be given to other factions or players. An occasional piece or stack may be given. Staff will determine what is considered ‘significant,' so common sense should be used. If TNT given illegally is used during a raid, the damage may be rolled back with compelling evidence. ↩︎
This includes truces, allies or alts. ↩︎
This includes walls that help you defend those claims. ↩︎
They cannot be in the line of fire of the raiding faction's cannon. ↩︎
This does not include the walls of the box itself. ↩︎
Which includes being built or patched ↩︎
This is a cannon where 2 barrels are used, often for countering. ↩︎
This is a type of cannon that hammers down while the shot is still moving so that the use of a back board isn't needed. ↩︎
This is a type of cannon that is used to tunnel through a faction's base walls at ground level. ↩︎
All factions must wait a minimum of 30 minutes from the last shot of a raid to begin their own raid. Raid claims may be claimed and built before those 30 minutes, but shooting cannot happen until the 30 minute duration has passed. ↩︎