CavePvP Rules

The following content contains rules for the CavePvP network, both globally and for each individual server. Failure to follow these rules will result in punishment across the network. Staff members reserve the right to use their discretion, therefore this list may not be comprehensive.

💬 Chat Rules:

• Do not be racist or homophobic.
• Do not be overly toxic.
• Do not spam or flood the chat.
• Do not attempt to bypass the chat filter.
• Do not participate in real world item selling.
• Do not advertise other servers, including Discord servers.
• Do not make DDos/DOX threats or engage in DDoS/DOX comedy.
• Do not violate the privacy of others.
• Do not post links to any pornographic, gore, shock, or screamer content/websites.
• Do not post any video links that are on other games/servers.

🌎 Global Rules:

• Do not spam create factions.
• Do not misuse helpop.
  • This feature should be reserved for requesting help, misuse will result in punishment.
• Do not use cheat/use banned modifications.
  • Cheating is defined as using any illegal modifications that give you an advantage over other players. INCLUDING AUTOCLICKING.
    
• Do not exploit bugs.
• Do not create racist/offensive builds/signs.
• Do not grief. (This includes your claim for example a cobble monster)
• Do not evade punishments.
• Do not lie to staff.
• Do not associate with cheaters.
• Do not boost kills/events.
• Do not have objectionable sword/faction names.
• Do not have an objectionable minecraft name/skin.
• Do not blackmail or threaten players/staff.
• You may have a maximum of 4 accounts online at a time.
• Do not associate yourself with banned or blacklisted players who are evading. This can get you banned/blacklisted in association.
• Screenshare Rules:
  • Refusal to screen share or to open certain applications can result in a ban.
  • Trolling or wasting staff time during an SS can result in a ban.
  • Clearing your recycle bin before SS can result in a ban.
  • Restarting your explorer, Minecraft, or other applications before SS can result in a ban.
  • Do not play on a Custom OS as it can have certain services disabled
  • Do not play with the following services stopped on your computer:
    • Diagtrack
    • Sysmain
    • DPS
    • Pcasvc
    • These services stop us from properly screensharing.
• We ban players who we believe are solely on to ruin other people's experience and their general presence on Cave causes lots of harm towards people.

⚔️ HCF Rules:

• Do not ally with other factions
  • Allying is when one faction is assisted during a fight by a third party.
  • Allying can be one-way, this is where one team helps another without the consent of the faction that is receiving a benefit.
• Do not abuse PvP/SOTW timer.
• Do not gatekeep KOTH/Citadel.
  • Gatekeeping is when you start fighting people right outside a Citadel/KOTH capzone/area effectively preventing them from knocking.
  • Gatekeeping can also be considered if you are in Citadel/KOTH area and making zero effort to knock. If you don't want to knock then don't go to Citadel or KOTH. This can discourage factions from knocking as they see you as a step in the way.
    • This is of course, up to the staff member.
• Do not grief fights.
  • This can be blocking archer shots, breaking blocks under combatants, blocking hits or many other situations where they can't hit you but you annoy them.
• Do not PvP Timer/SOTW Timer Abuse
• Do not invite banned/blacklisted evading players, can result in a blacklist/ban.
• Do not evade DTR
  • DTR evasion is where a faction leader kicks a member just before they die in order to avoid DTR loss. Disbanding a faction while on DTR freeze and creating a new one is another form of evasion.
• Do not boost DTR
  • DTR boosting is where a faction member has multiple accounts in a faction in order to gain more DTR.
• Do not inside factions.
• Do not Block/Pearl/Hub glitch.
• Do not log out whilst frozen.
  • Players have 3 minutes to join TeamSpeak upon being frozen. You will be banned if you do not comply with staff instructions.
• Do not hold other players hostage.
  • Holding hostage is where a player is trapped within a claim but is not actively being killed for a long period of time.
• Do not kick & kill members.
  • Kick & kill is where a member is kicked from a faction and killed by the members. This rule also applies if a member leaves the faction and kills its members.
• Do not freeze your minecraft in order to avoid death.
• Autoclicking outside of KOTH and Citadel is not allowed.
• Duping, being in a faction with dupers or knowing of a glitch/exploit and not reporting it to a staff member can result in a ban/blacklist.
  • If you find out of a game-breaking exploit or dupe, tell a Head-Staff member and you could possibly win top rank, a Gift Card, or even PayPal/Crypto depending on the Ownership team.
• Do not use illegal traps.
  • Illegal traps include, but are not limited to:
    
    • Having 3 or more dropdowns.
    • Suffocation traps.
    • upsign traps leading to death.
    • Dropdowns that exceed 15 blocks in either direction.
    • Using blocks that cannot be hit through such as fencegates to obstruct players
      • these blocks are still allowed to be used as entrances/exits.

🏹 Kits Rules:

• Do not Block/Pearl/Hub glitch.
• Do not ally with other factions.
  • On kitmap, this rule only applies to CITADEL
    
• Do not hold other players hostage.
  • Holding hostage is where a player is trapped within a claim but is not actively being killed for a long period of time.
• Do not freeze your minecraft in order to avoid death.
• Do not inside factions.
• Autoclicking outside of Citadel can result in a ban.

Several common-sense rules aren't listed here and other rules that Head-Staff can enforce. Simply just be a normal player and there should never be any issues!