Infaru Rules

Updated December 8th 2025

Prelude

All rules are subject to staff's discretion.

Rules will be referred to by their section and sub-section. For example, lavacasting is against rule 2.1.

Sec 1. Toxicity

To preserve a friendly and welcoming server, toxicity will not be tolerated on this server. Toxicity is defined as:

  1. Discrimination against minority groups, such as on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity or religion.
  2. Using slurs or other harmful derogatory words.
  3. Spamming chat, tickets, forms, etc.
  4. Advertising unaffiliated websites, servers or other media.
  5. Harassment or bullying.
  6. Constructing lag machines.
  7. Mass indiscriminate murder or theft.
  8. Supporting or promoting hateful ideologies, such as Nazism.
  9. Attempting to ruin the gameplay experience for others.
  10. Joining a town, faction, group, party, or nation with the intent to sabotage or grief.
  11. Killing a player who has been AFK for longer than 5 minutes, or AFK for an unknown amount of time.
  12. Raiding a town without warning and without a clear demand that could avoid it.
    1. Raiding is defined as an attack on a player settlement with at least 25% of the victim settlement's playerbase online.
    2. A raid must be announced both in-character (proximity yelling preferably) and out-of-character (in-game general chat) with demand(s) that can stop the raid. If the settlement does not comply, the raid may commence, with the raider(s) stating IC and OOC that the raid will commence.
    3. During a raid, the invaders are allowed to break walls for entry, steal items and livestock (not blocks), and kill players. However, to keep toxicity low, it is highly recommended that invaders do not wipe whole settlements during a raid. It is expected that most raids will be small annoyances rather than dramatically changing the course of a settlement
    4. If any of the settlement's online players has to leave in the middle of a raid, they may do so, but the raid can continue if the raiders choose. However, it's recommended that the raiders dial back their raid for the sake of reducing toxicity between players.
  13. Robbing and/or murdering the same player(s) more than once during the same session. Death is a big deal, and as such, it should not be dealt with lightly. Give players ample breathing room after one of these events so they can get back on stable footing and enjoy the game.
  14. Raiding a town more than once during the same session, unless explicitly agreed to by both parties.

Single, isolated events of toxicity may be punished with a temporary mute, kick, or verbal warning, while frequent toxicity will result in removal from the server, possibly permanently.

Sec 2. Player Griefing

Player griefing is defined as doing any of the following in a developed area:

  1. Harvesting or trampling crops without replanting, or killing animals without rebreeding.
  2. Claiming someone else's territory without their explicit permission.
  3. Killing pets or any other entities with obvious significance.
  4. Destroying player-placed blocks without warning and without a clear demand that could avoid it.
  5. Destroying public works projects, such as, but not limited to: roads, rails, bridges, farms, or tunnels.
  6. Any destruction or placement of blocks, items or mobs with the purpose of trolling, bothering players, creating an eyesore, decreasing server performance or hindering the gameplay experience.
  7. Destroying, modifying, or moving another player's raft or sailboat without their explicit permission.

These actions will result in a temporary ban, the length of which is dependent on the severity of the griefing. Repeated incidents will result in a permanent ban.

Sec 3. Cheating

To preserve fairness across all players, cheating is not permitted. Cheating is defined as:

  1. Using hacked clients to gain an unfair advantage.
  2. Using mods to gain an unfair advantage, such as X-Ray, freecam, etc.

Sec 4. Roleplay

Definitions:

  1. OOC - Out of Character; not in roleplay.
  2. IC - In Character; in roleplay.

1. Roleplay Guidelines

  1. Your character doesn't know what you know; OOC information cannot be used to push IC motives.
  2. All IC activity is on the Vintage Story server; Discord is only used to organize events and discuss what happens on the server OOC.
  3. All IC activity on the Vintage Story server is to happen in local chat, whispers within the same 16 block radius, and voice chats that are reasonably happening within a local area.
  4. All characters are free agents; you cannot force them to do anything they don't want to. You can only act on your own terms, and others are free to react as they will.
  5. This server is NOT set in the real world for many reasons. Learn a bit about the server and what's going on before you start, and don't simply copy real-world things like American politics.
  6. You may only have ONE ACTIVE CHARACTER AT A TIME. This forces players to put actual thought and effort into their characters, instead of trying to juggle every aspect of RP at once.

2. Character Guidelines

  1. You are not the main character.
  2. All characters must have a character declaration written up in the character declaration channel.
  3. Your character must have traits, motives, beliefs, etc. they abide to. They do not have to be the strictest; however, ignoring them consistently is against the rule.
  4. Characters should have real lives. They should eat, sleep, work, socialize, and have real motivations. Characters built solely around getting the chance to PvP and kill other player characters, colloquially known as "Joe Assassins", are not allowed.
  5. When a player is killed by another player, the character may die alongside them if it is the wish of the killer. This must be discussed with staff and can be appealed in a ticket for exceptional circumstances such as toxicity or glitches.
  6. While not all character deaths can be planned easily, your character must have a valid reason to kill a player for a canon death to apply. Deaths without a good rationale behind them will be voided, it does not have to be complex however if it is clear the death was done to fulfill an out of character motive it will be voided. As a rule of thumb, it is always best to contact staff first via ticket. If a staff member is your target, instead of making a ticket, contact a different staff member by DM and be sure that they make note of it."
  7. Once your character dies your new one can't be the same as before, and loses all in-character offices they previously held, all property they previously owned, and all knowledge they previously had.
  8. Your new Character may not inherit any property your previous character owned or be closely related to them.
  9. Your character may not be in violation of any other Infaru rules.

Sec 5. Discord Rules

  1. Don't be bigoted.
  2. Have basic respect for people.
  3. Please refrain from spamming.
  4. Don't post invites to unrelated discord servers.
  5. Don't abuse any mechanisms set up by staff.
  6. Don't post anything malicious.
  7. DON'T BE A FASCIST.
  8. [Rule 8 has been redacted by the developer]
  9. NO SLURS.
  10. No pornography.
  11. No Nazi salutes, greetings, slogans or symbols.
  12. NO ERP.
  13. Staff reserves the right to veto (or require an amendment) to any parliament/assembly/government bill that:
    1. Instructs staff to do something technically impossible.
    2. Would cause an extinction level event for the server.
    3. Conflicts with staff responsibilities/jurisdiction.
  14. No in-character talk in ⁠#ooc-general.
  15. All PARTICIPATION of politics or server events should happen in-game.
  16. Any DISCUSSION of politics and server events, or anything else not in character should go in ⁠ooc-general.
  17. Do not tell people to die.