Sentencing Guidelines

This page describes how punishments are typically assigned on the server. They are guidelines, not rigid rules. Staff may adjust based on context. For example, stealing might be 30 minutes, but a small theft could be 15 minutes and burning down a whole base could be an hour. Similarly, harassment ranges depending on scale and persistence.

In general, punishments should be such that the perpetrator feels the same pain that they caused to their victims. If someone spent 4 hours obtaining a netherite block and then someone else steals it and destroys it, they're going to have to spend another 4 hours to get a replacement block, so for sure the person who stole the block should be in jail for at least 4 hours.

Alternately, if someone makes a little chat spam and nobody seems to care, then it could be argued that any jail time is going to cause more pain to them than their chat spam caused to everyone else.

Following this philosophy, we turn the pain that is caused to the victims into pain that is felt by the perpetrators, which then allows their own pain to teach them to avoid doing the things that cause that pain.

Time	Description
5 minutes	Smaller first-time offenses, not targeted, or not documented rules (e.g. chat spam).
10 minutes	Minor annoyance, such as refusing to leave an area after being asked.
15 minutes	General slurs, e.g. the n-word or other generalized hate. If a part of harassment, consider the 45 or 90 minute rules instead.
20 minutes	Mutual harassment (both players insulting each other).
30 minutes	Impacting another player with actions like stealing from or griefing unclaimed builds. This is only for when the other player is someone who likely quit a long time ago. For current players, consider whether it might be harassment and use the 45 or 90 minute rules instead.
45 minutes	Using personal personal attacks in somewhat understandable situations, such as during an argument. If the harassment is entirely one-sided, consider the 90 minute rule instead.
60 minutes	Use of obvious illegal hacks such as fly hacks and x-ray.
90 minutes	Targeted harassment, sustained attempts to disrupt another player's experience.
360 minutes	Disruptions such as lag machines or attempts to crash the server, things which affect many players.

• Brealing the rule a little: cut the sentence in half
• Breaking the rule a lot: double the sentence
• Repeat offenses: multiply last sentence given (same rule only) by 1.5
• Repeated harassment: double the last sentence given for harassment.

Look up the player's UUID and search for it in the jail log to see if there's a previous offense. The 1.5x or 2x modifiers are important so that we eventually get bad players out of the server.

Be sure to consider the 0.5x or 2x modifier depending on how severe the offense is.

Be sure to consider how much staff time was wasted investigating the issue or repairing the damage, and add that to the sentence.

Also feel free to add time for any damage done, e.g. if a netherite block was stolen and thrown at a cactus, it could take the victim 4 hours to replace that. So add 4 hours to the sentence. ...or 8. Whatever, don't focus too hard on being accurate. If people don't want inaccurate calculations for this, they can help recover and return everything that was stolen.

Triple the amount of time that staff wasted investigating your lies, or triple the time that you attempted to get someone jailed for by lying about what they did, whichever is greater.