Rules & FAQ

First

GobbleCraft is a Virginia Tech club, so the Student Code of Conduct and state and federal law apply. Officers have the final say on how these rules are read, and "but technically" doesn't work on them.

Saw someone break a rule, or got hurt by it? Message an officer.

Server rules

1. Don't grief

Don't destroy or change anything that belongs to someone else without asking. No lag machines, noise machines, or anything built to annoy people, and don't test the server's limits on purpose. Pranks are fine only if everyone affected is okay with it.

Broke something by accident? Tell the owner and fix it if you can. If it's bad, ask an officer. You won't be punished for honest accidents. Want to change or remove a build nobody has touched in over a year? Contact the builder first, then the admins.

2. Don't steal

Don't take items that aren't marked for public use unless the owner says yes. Taking something from an abandoned build? Ask an officer first, and it goes in the museum. If the owner comes back and wants it, give it back.

3. Don't cheat

No X-ray, fly hacks or combat aura. Texture packs and shaders are fine. Also fine: render distance mods (Bobby), performance mods (Sodium, Optifine), minimaps, Litematica, Fullbright and Freecam. Botting mods are not. Not sure about a mod? Ask the officers.

4. Exploits

Don't crash the economy or the server. Carpet duping and TNT duping are allowed. Sand duping, rail duping, modded items, lag machines and nether portal chunk loaders are banned. Ask before using anything else.

5. Advertisements

You can advertise an in-game shop with signs at spawn or in chat, as long as it isn't spam. Shops can't sell real-world products. Real-world ads go in the Discord promotions channel only.

6. Factions

PvP is allowed between factions that opt in. Everyone involved has to agree to surprise attacks and to what counts as griefing, and officers need to be told. Nothing a faction does should touch players who aren't in it. Damage to public or unagreed places is still griefing.

Everywhere else

• No slurs. Swearing is fine, just not nonstop.
• No toxic behavior: harassment, bullying, bad sportsmanship. If someone stops finding a joke funny, stop.
• No porn, no sexual jokes that humiliate people, nothing that makes light of consent or tragedy (sheep machines, 9/11 builds and Epstein Island builds are all banned).
• Ask everyone in a recording before posting it outside the Discord. Build exteriors are fine to film, interiors of private builds are not. Don't copy other people's builds.
• Keep politics out. Minecraft politics are fine.

Questions

Is the server vanilla?

Mostly. There are some plugins for quality of life. Run /help in game.

Where can I build?

Walk a couple hundred blocks out from spawn. There's still room around 600 blocks out. You can take items from the two trucks at /spawn.

My nether portal is acting weird.

Lots of portals exist, so yours may link to someone else's. /sethome before you go in, and never knock down another player's portal.

Is the server VT only?

At least 70% of players should be current students. See How to join.

Are mods allowed?

See rule 3.

Commands

• /hub takes you to the hub, where you change worlds.
• /warp market, /warp OG_Spawn, /warp Seasonal_Spawn
• /sethome [name], /home [name], /delhome [name] (5 homes max, they work across worlds)
• /tpa [player], /tpahere [player], /tpaccept, /tpdeny
• /back returns you to where you were, or where you died. Sometimes it's flaky.
• /lock and /unlock for chests, barrels and shulkers.
• /msg, /tell or /w [player] [message]

Club stuff

Meetings are Saturdays 4-6 pm, part club business, part game night. Come late or leave early, nobody minds.

There are no dues. Playing is free.