Community rules
These apply across Serene SMP, our Discord and other official Serene community spaces. Please use common sense and treat others with respect. Not every situation can be listed, and staff may step in when behavior is clearly harmful to the community.
Respect others
Treat other members with basic respect. Harassment, bullying, targeted hostility, excessive personal attacks, or deliberately making someone feel unwelcome is not allowed.
Discrimination & hate speech
Slurs, discriminatory remarks, hate speech, or attacks against someone based on their identity or background are prohibited. Using hateful language as a “joke” does not make it acceptable.
Keep things appropriate
Sexually explicit, excessively graphic, or otherwise inappropriate content is not permitted. This includes messages, usernames, skins, builds, images, links, profile content, and voice chat.
Drama & personal conflicts
Personal disagreements should not be turned into public community drama. Do not encourage dogpiling, publicly expose private disputes, repeatedly provoke someone, or involve unrelated members in personal conflicts. Contact staff if a situation genuinely requires moderation.
Threats & harmful behavior
Threats of violence, encouraging someone to harm themselves or others, or attempting to intimidate another member are strictly prohibited.
Privacy & personal information
Do not share, threaten to share, or attempt to obtain another person’s private information without their permission. This includes addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, private photographs, accounts, or other identifying information.
Impersonation
Do not impersonate another player, staff member, content creator, or Serene itself in a way that could reasonably deceive others.
Scams & malicious content
Scamming, phishing, malicious links, malware, account-stealing attempts, or other deceptive behavior is prohibited.
Staff interactions
Please cooperate with staff when they are handling a moderation issue. Disagreeing with a decision is okay, but arguing repeatedly, harassing staff, or attempting to disrupt moderation is not.
Punishment evasion
Do not use alternate accounts or other methods to avoid a mute, ban, timeout, restriction, or other moderation action.
Common sense & rule evasion
Trying to exploit loopholes or technicalities in the rules is not permitted. If you know something is likely harmful, disruptive, or unfair, don’t do it simply because it isn’t specifically written here.
Server rules
Please follow these whenever you play on Serene SMP. Working around the wording of a rule while clearly breaking its intent may still result in moderation.
Griefing & stealing
Do not take, break, move, alter, or intentionally damage another player’s belongings or builds without permission. This applies even if the area is unclaimed. Players are still strongly encouraged to claim their builds and valuables, as staff cannot guarantee reimbursement in every situation.
Claims & building space
Please respect other players’ space when choosing where to build or claim. Do not intentionally build extremely close to another player’s home, town, or project without their permission. Claims made specifically to block expansion, surround another claim, or disrupt another player may be removed by staff.
PvP & player killing
Killing or intentionally harming another player requires their consent. TP killing, teleport traps, portal traps, death pits, or tricking someone into a situation where they will be killed are not allowed. Turning PvP on does not automatically mean a player has consented to being hunted or repeatedly attacked.
Farms, redstone & server performance
Farms, grinders, redstone machines, entity setups, or other builds that cause excessive lag may be limited or removed. Large-scale or unusually intensive farms may require changes at staff discretion. Do not intentionally create machines or entity collections designed to strain or crash the server.
Entities & mobs
Please keep large collections of animals, villagers, minecarts, armor stands, dropped items, or other entities reasonable. Staff may reduce excessive entity counts when necessary for server performance.
Bugs, glitches & exploits
Do not abuse bugs, unintended mechanics, duplication methods, vulnerabilities, or other exploits for personal gain. This includes distributing, selling, or teaching an exploit to others. If you discover something that could affect the economy, gameplay, or server stability, report it privately to staff.
Mods & external tools
Mods or external tools that provide an unfair advantage, automate gameplay, interfere with other players, or negatively affect the server are prohibited. Cosmetic, accessibility, and performance modifications are generally fine unless they provide functionality that would otherwise be considered cheating. See Mods & clients below.
Scamming & trading
Scamming or intentionally misleading another player during a trade, sale, service, or agreement is not allowed. This applies to coins, items, cosmetics, keys, ranks, and other server-related goods.
Real-money trading
Players may not privately buy, sell, or trade Serene items, currency, ranks, accounts, cosmetics, or services for real-world money. Purchases involving real money must go through official Serene channels. Trading eligible items for in-game currency or items is allowed.
Alternative accounts
Alternate accounts are allowed, but they may not be used to bypass punishments, restrictions, cooldowns, limits, or obtain rewards multiple times. Using additional accounts to AFK resources or otherwise gain an unfair advantage is also prohibited.
Shops & advertising
You’re welcome to advertise your player shop, town, service, or other in-game project in chat, but please don’t spam. Leave at least 10 minutes between repeated advertisements for the same thing.
Roleplay & lore
Player-created lore and roleplay are welcome, but participation must always be voluntary. Roleplay does not excuse harassment, griefing, stealing, killing, or other rule violations. Keep fictional conflicts from becoming real conflicts between players.
Store purchases & chargebacks
Unauthorized chargebacks or payment disputes involving legitimate purchases may result in permanent removal from the server and/or restrictions through our store provider. If you experience an issue with a purchase, please contact staff first so we can help resolve it.
Inactive claims
Claims belonging to players who have been inactive for an extended period may eventually be removed so the world can continue to grow. Unless otherwise announced, claims may become eligible for cleanup after 45 days of inactivity. Special circumstances can always be discussed with staff.
Rule evasion & staff decisions
Using technicalities or loopholes to avoid a rule is not permitted. Not every harmful behavior can be individually listed here, so staff may intervene when something clearly harms another player, the community, the economy, or server performance.
Disallowed mods & clients
Mods, clients, scripts, or other modifications that automate gameplay, reveal information you normally wouldn’t have access to, or otherwise provide an unfair advantage are not allowed on Serene.
Specifically disallowed
- Freecam
- OQMineBot / MineBot
- Meteor Client
- Baritone
- Printer
- Radar or ESP mods
- X-Ray
- Easy Place
- Fast Break
- Reach
- Speed hacks
- Fly hacks or movement boosts
- Kill Aura
- Aimbot
- Attack Keybind / Hover Attack
Automation
- Macros that automate gameplay
- Scripts
- Auto-clickers of any kind
- Weighted or held-down keys/buttons used to automate actions
- Automated mining, movement, building, combat, or farming tools
Normal keybinds that simply remap a single vanilla action are fine. Keybinds that automate actions or provide an advantage are not.
Hacked clients
Hacked clients or clients containing prohibited cheat features are not allowed, regardless of whether every feature is actively being used.
This list is not exhaustive. Any modification that gives a player an unfair gameplay advantage, bypasses intended mechanics, automates gameplay, or provides information unavailable through normal gameplay may be considered disallowed.
Not sure if something is allowed?
Ask staff before you do it. Open a ticket on our Discord and we’ll help.