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OP Factions Rules Explanations
In this thread, you will find an explanation of every OP Factions-specific rule. Breaking these rules in most cases will result in faction punishments (strikes). Each amount of strikes results in a different faction punishment. Note that even inactive strikes count to the faction disqualification when reaching 10 strikes.
Strike punishments
Common terms
Claim hindering
Claiming in the path of another faction’s buffer during grace period is not allowed. This rule does not apply to traps and is only punishable during grace period.
Buffer limit
Your buffer count starts from the exterior of your base shell. The buffer limit is 15 chunks (120 walls). Going past this number will lead to strikes. Skipping chunks and genning more walls will also count towards your buffer size. Having even 1 extra chunk of buffer can get your faction punished. Furthermore, Players are prohibited from making claims within a 30 chunk radius of their faction base. This rule is enforced at Team Factions discretion.
Raid detectors (bots)
You may not have bot accounts constantly AFKing on walls, even if they have no raid detector function.
Anti-Nuke Walls / Finnsters
Anti-nuke walls are a way of protection so your walls don't get fully nuked (destroyed) down to the bedrock. Antinuke walls are not allowed to be used as defenses. Example of antinukes:
Illegal spawner placement
All value spawners should be obtainable when breaching a base box at y=190 or higher. Spawners can not be surrounded in obsidian, water, or hidden in reverse layers / in between walls.
Buffer Counter Limit
You are not allowed to have more than 1 buffer counter per side of your base. Using a 360 counter to bypass this rule will lead to strikes.
Buffer Counter Defenses
You are allowed to have a maximum of 5 chunks of walls (40 walls) on your buffer counter. Oceans are not allowed to be used as defenses for buffer counters.
Ocean Limit
You are only allowed to have 1 chunk (16 blocks) of ocean in width per side of your base. Having multiple oceans add up to 1 chunk is not allowed.
Value Box
Once a base is breached, all value spawners placed should be accessible.
Raiding Rules
Raiding Without Using Raid Claims
When attempting a faction’s base you are REQUIRED to use raid claims.
Raid interfering
When another faction is raiding you cannot hit them, block them, counter them, etc... Players involved may be banned.
Wilderness patching
You may not patch in the unclaimed land where your buffer ends. This rule also applies to cannon boxes; factions may not patch shots outside of their walls with the intent to extend their defenses.
Illegal Patching
Players may not patch using Sandbots, Printer, or Genblocks while on an active raid timer.
Furthermore, the following blocks are disallowed to patch with:
Destroying Spawners
You may not mine, creeper egg, or chunkbust spawners while you are being raided. Players may mine spawners freely while on safety break or shield.
Illegal Cannons
Cannons are allowed to shoot a maximum of 3500 TNT per shot and create a maximum of a 5 wide nuke on a watered wall.
The following cannons are disallowed:
Shooting multiple counters at once
You can only shoot one counter cannon at a raid box at a time. This includes buffer, side, and front counters. Players must wait 30 seconds before shooting from a different side.
Barrel claim violations
Your barrel claim must be connected to your raid claim and can only be 12 chunks long at maximum. Barrels can not float into wilderness.
Raid Box Defenses
Raid claims can not exceed 15x15 chunks in size, players can not extend their raid claim unless needed for their barrel using barrel claims. Players are not allowed to have more than 3 chunks of walls (24 walls) per side of their raid box. Furthermore, they are not allowed to use anti nuke walls or oceans on their raid box. Slabs are not allowed on raiding or side cannons.
Illegal Countering
Back countering and bordering countering another faction's raid / side cannons are not allowed. Front countering and side countering are fine as long as side claims are used.
Multiple Cannons
You are not allowed to have more than 1 active cannon in a cannon box or in a cannon claim. The same goes for counter cannons and their claims. For a cannon to be 'inactive' it must be blown up or accessible without having to blow anything up.
Overstacker Limit
You are allowed to overstack a maximum of 6 blocks above barrel height. Your overstacker should not create a hole larger than 5-wide on a watered wall.
Abusing Raid Timer
Alternative / allied factions can not be used to trigger timers on your faction with the intent of gaining grace period. Furthermore, factions must not activate another faction’s raid timer unless they have the intention to raid the faction.
Side Counter Rules
Side counter claims can not be bigger than 5x5 chunks. Counters in these claims can can only have 12 walls defending them.
General Rules
Faction Wide cheating
Having 3 players banned in your faction for cheats or related is not allowed. This rule also applies to ban evasion, bug abuse, and expired bans.
Multiple Corner Claims
Your faction can have only 1 corner claimed. Factions can not claim multiple corners on alternative accounts.
Abusing Faction Shield
Claiming with an alt faction inside of your buffer with the intent to give more than 18 hours of shield to your base is not allowed. Using claims with shield to protect your cannon box also falls under this rule.
Faction Spam
Having several members of your faction spam a similar phrase is not allowed. This includes bots intentionally spamming chat as well. A verbal warning will be issued before strikes are given.
Economy Script
Using software / an external tool to automate the farming crops is not allowed. This rule includes breaking crops with the printer break feature and using alternative / bot accounts to capture outposts."
Bot Related
Bot accounts may not have any sort of vanish trackers, world scanners, player trackers, or any type of movement / combat modules. If a bot is seen to be moving / flying there is enough reason to screenshare the bot account / account owner for bot related punishments. Claiming playtimerewards on a mass amount of bots will also count towards this rule.
Server Abuse
This rule includes, but is not limited to: Players crashing the server, duping, or abusing a severe bug. This rule is 100% Team Factions Discretion and even if only one player from the faction breaks this rule, the whole faction may be punished."
Sharing Value
Sharing value with competing factions will get you disqualified from the faction top competition. (Team Factions Discretion)
Strike Evasion
Disbanding, recreating, or joining a new faction to evade strikes on an existing faction is not allowed and will lead to a disqualification on the alternative faction.
Raiding While Raid Banned
You are not allowed to raid while being raid banned. This means you are not allowed to leave your faction, make a new faction and raid. You are not allowed to use alts to raid if you are raid banned on your main account and neither are you allowed to join other factions to raid with them.
Insiding
Betraying your faction is not allowed. Under this rule falls giving away your faction base's coordinates, stealing money/XP/spawners, helping other factions raid you and anything similar.
Insiding Policy
Under no circumstance will value be reimbursed in the case of an inside. This is because insiding is 100% preventable through faction permissions and proper account security. Your account security is your responsibility, various measures can be used to ensure no one has the opportunity to inside, for example, two-factor authentication (/2fa). Furthermore, do not share passwords with people who you do not trust.
Some examples are, if a faction member mines or destroys spawners and then leaves they will be punished for insiding, however value will not be refunded. If your base gets chunkbusted, no matter when, the value will not get rolled back, but the player will be punished. Once again, this is because insiding is completely preventable.
Value Sharing
Sharing significant value with other factions in order to boost their position in faction top is not allowed. If the value shared influences the position of the top 5 factions, those involved will be punished under this rule with a disqualification.
Other
Payout eligibility requirements
In this thread, you will find an explanation of every OP Factions-specific rule. Breaking these rules in most cases will result in faction punishments (strikes). Each amount of strikes results in a different faction punishment. Note that even inactive strikes count to the faction disqualification when reaching 10 strikes.
Strike punishments
- 2 Strikes - 24 hours /f raid ban
- 3 Strikes - 10% value reduction
- 4 Strikes - 12 hours no /f shield
- 5 Strikes - 48 hours /f raid ban
- 6 Strikes - 20% value reduction
- 7 Strikes - 18 hours no /f shield
- 8 Strikes - 30% value reduction
- 10 Strikes - Disqualification from Factions Top
Common terms
- Base box - A cube in the middle of a faction's base that stores value boxes and other important components of the base
- Buffer - The number of claims around your base, measured from the exterior wall of your base outwards
- Buffer counter - A counter cannon used to protect your base, placed in a chunk within your buffer
- Cannon - A structure used to shoot TNT at an enemy faction's base and raid them
- Chunk - A 16x16 area ranging from the top to the bottom of the world, used as a measurement for faction claims (1 claim = 1 chunk)
- Counter cannon - A cannon used to destroy an enemy faction's cannon that is aimed at your base
- Faction shield - A 16-hour time interval within the day in which no one can explode blocks within your claims, set using /f shield
- Grace period - First week of the map when all explosions (TNT and creeper eggs) are disabled and factions build their bases
- Ocean - A 1-chunk/16-block (in width) long area filled with source blocks of water with the purpose of letting your faction members patch more efficiently in it
- Patching - Constantly placing obsidian blocks in order to catch an enemy cannon's shots so they do not destroy your walls (and raid you in the end)
- Raid box - A cube in which a cannon is located while raiding
- Raid timer - An on/off raiding stopwatch which gets activated whenever someone shoots TNT into another faction's claim and alternates between the raiding and a 20-minute grace period (once the raiding period expires) which can be used by the attacked faction to fix their base
Claim hindering
Claiming in the path of another faction’s buffer during grace period is not allowed. This rule does not apply to traps and is only punishable during grace period.
Buffer limit
Your buffer count starts from the exterior of your base shell. The buffer limit is 15 chunks (120 walls). Going past this number will lead to strikes. Skipping chunks and genning more walls will also count towards your buffer size. Having even 1 extra chunk of buffer can get your faction punished. Furthermore, Players are prohibited from making claims within a 30 chunk radius of their faction base. This rule is enforced at Team Factions discretion.
Raid detectors (bots)
You may not have bot accounts constantly AFKing on walls, even if they have no raid detector function.
Anti-Nuke Walls / Finnsters
Anti-nuke walls are a way of protection so your walls don't get fully nuked (destroyed) down to the bedrock. Antinuke walls are not allowed to be used as defenses. Example of antinukes:
Illegal spawner placement
All value spawners should be obtainable when breaching a base box at y=190 or higher. Spawners can not be surrounded in obsidian, water, or hidden in reverse layers / in between walls.
Buffer Counter Limit
You are not allowed to have more than 1 buffer counter per side of your base. Using a 360 counter to bypass this rule will lead to strikes.
Buffer Counter Defenses
You are allowed to have a maximum of 5 chunks of walls (40 walls) on your buffer counter. Oceans are not allowed to be used as defenses for buffer counters.
Ocean Limit
You are only allowed to have 1 chunk (16 blocks) of ocean in width per side of your base. Having multiple oceans add up to 1 chunk is not allowed.
Value Box
Once a base is breached, all value spawners placed should be accessible.
Raiding Rules
Raiding Without Using Raid Claims
When attempting a faction’s base you are REQUIRED to use raid claims.
- /f raid claim radius 2 - Claims a 3x3 raid claim area (minimum)
- /f raid claim radius 8 - Claims a 15x15 raid claim area (maximum)
Raid interfering
When another faction is raiding you cannot hit them, block them, counter them, etc... Players involved may be banned.
Wilderness patching
You may not patch in the unclaimed land where your buffer ends. This rule also applies to cannon boxes; factions may not patch shots outside of their walls with the intent to extend their defenses.
Illegal Patching
Players may not patch using Sandbots, Printer, or Genblocks while on an active raid timer.
Furthermore, the following blocks are disallowed to patch with:
- Slime Blocks
- Cobwebs
- Enchantment Tables
- Banners
- Levers
- Cactus
- Anvils
- Chests / Enderchests
- More... (Team Factions Discretion)
Destroying Spawners
You may not mine, creeper egg, or chunkbust spawners while you are being raided. Players may mine spawners freely while on safety break or shield.
Illegal Cannons
Cannons are allowed to shoot a maximum of 3500 TNT per shot and create a maximum of a 5 wide nuke on a watered wall.
The following cannons are disallowed:
- Rev Nukes
- Push Nukes
- U-Fusions
- Horizontal Nukes
- Multiple Wall One Shots
- Mid Airs
- Corner Nukes
- Wall Removers
- Left/Right Shooting
- Worms
- Chimneys
- Roof Cannons
- Auto Adjust Cannons
- Any cannon faster than 3 seconds (Unless shooting below y10)
Shooting multiple counters at once
You can only shoot one counter cannon at a raid box at a time. This includes buffer, side, and front counters. Players must wait 30 seconds before shooting from a different side.
Barrel claim violations
Your barrel claim must be connected to your raid claim and can only be 12 chunks long at maximum. Barrels can not float into wilderness.
Raid Box Defenses
Raid claims can not exceed 15x15 chunks in size, players can not extend their raid claim unless needed for their barrel using barrel claims. Players are not allowed to have more than 3 chunks of walls (24 walls) per side of their raid box. Furthermore, they are not allowed to use anti nuke walls or oceans on their raid box. Slabs are not allowed on raiding or side cannons.
Illegal Countering
Back countering and bordering countering another faction's raid / side cannons are not allowed. Front countering and side countering are fine as long as side claims are used.
Multiple Cannons
You are not allowed to have more than 1 active cannon in a cannon box or in a cannon claim. The same goes for counter cannons and their claims. For a cannon to be 'inactive' it must be blown up or accessible without having to blow anything up.
Overstacker Limit
You are allowed to overstack a maximum of 6 blocks above barrel height. Your overstacker should not create a hole larger than 5-wide on a watered wall.
Abusing Raid Timer
Alternative / allied factions can not be used to trigger timers on your faction with the intent of gaining grace period. Furthermore, factions must not activate another faction’s raid timer unless they have the intention to raid the faction.
Side Counter Rules
Side counter claims can not be bigger than 5x5 chunks. Counters in these claims can can only have 12 walls defending them.
General Rules
Faction Wide cheating
Having 3 players banned in your faction for cheats or related is not allowed. This rule also applies to ban evasion, bug abuse, and expired bans.
Multiple Corner Claims
Your faction can have only 1 corner claimed. Factions can not claim multiple corners on alternative accounts.
Abusing Faction Shield
Claiming with an alt faction inside of your buffer with the intent to give more than 18 hours of shield to your base is not allowed. Using claims with shield to protect your cannon box also falls under this rule.
Faction Spam
Having several members of your faction spam a similar phrase is not allowed. This includes bots intentionally spamming chat as well. A verbal warning will be issued before strikes are given.
Economy Script
Using software / an external tool to automate the farming crops is not allowed. This rule includes breaking crops with the printer break feature and using alternative / bot accounts to capture outposts."
Bot Related
Bot accounts may not have any sort of vanish trackers, world scanners, player trackers, or any type of movement / combat modules. If a bot is seen to be moving / flying there is enough reason to screenshare the bot account / account owner for bot related punishments. Claiming playtimerewards on a mass amount of bots will also count towards this rule.
Server Abuse
This rule includes, but is not limited to: Players crashing the server, duping, or abusing a severe bug. This rule is 100% Team Factions Discretion and even if only one player from the faction breaks this rule, the whole faction may be punished."
Sharing Value
Sharing value with competing factions will get you disqualified from the faction top competition. (Team Factions Discretion)
Strike Evasion
Disbanding, recreating, or joining a new faction to evade strikes on an existing faction is not allowed and will lead to a disqualification on the alternative faction.
Raiding While Raid Banned
You are not allowed to raid while being raid banned. This means you are not allowed to leave your faction, make a new faction and raid. You are not allowed to use alts to raid if you are raid banned on your main account and neither are you allowed to join other factions to raid with them.
Insiding
Betraying your faction is not allowed. Under this rule falls giving away your faction base's coordinates, stealing money/XP/spawners, helping other factions raid you and anything similar.
Insiding Policy
Under no circumstance will value be reimbursed in the case of an inside. This is because insiding is 100% preventable through faction permissions and proper account security. Your account security is your responsibility, various measures can be used to ensure no one has the opportunity to inside, for example, two-factor authentication (/2fa). Furthermore, do not share passwords with people who you do not trust.
Some examples are, if a faction member mines or destroys spawners and then leaves they will be punished for insiding, however value will not be refunded. If your base gets chunkbusted, no matter when, the value will not get rolled back, but the player will be punished. Once again, this is because insiding is completely preventable.
Value Sharing
Sharing significant value with other factions in order to boost their position in faction top is not allowed. If the value shared influences the position of the top 5 factions, those involved will be punished under this rule with a disqualification.
Other
Payout eligibility requirements
- Your spawners must be base claimed (/f setbase) 3 days before the final payout.
- Your spawners must be placed 3 days before the final payout
- The base claim must be at least 3x3 chunks in size.
- Your value box must be at least 55 blocks tall.
- Your base's roof must be at Y = 255.
- Your faction must be at least 2 weeks old (does not apply to the first bi-weekly payout).
- All value spawners (Iron Golems, Zombie Pigmen, Villagers and Silverfishes) should be obtainable without having to breach y=190 or lower.
- If you are interested in knowing who from your faction broke a rule (and are the leader of the faction), DM a Team Factions member on Discord.
- Include /f show of the faction/player you are reporting in your player reports. Otherwise, your report might get denied.
- Not knowing the rules is considered ignorance on your part and you will suffer the consequences regardless.
- The faction leader is responsible for the actions of their members. If one of them breaks the rules, the entire faction gets punished.
- You can report people who break these rules HERE with valid video evidence.
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