The full list of rules is on the rules page. This page explains how it all works under the hood.
Anticheat
Survival runs an anticheat. For suspicious movement and actions it kicks you, and for obvious cheats it bans you on its own:
- Reach (hitting from further away than allowed), Hitboxes (hitting outside the hitbox), broken packets — auto-ban.
- Everything else (fly, speed, NoFall, Timer, knockback and so on) — kick only: these checks sometimes go off because of lag or on elytra, so nobody gets banned for them.
Auto-ban ladder
Each new auto-ban lasts longer than the last one:
| Auto-ban | Length |
|---|---|
| 1st | 1 hour |
| 2nd | 1 day |
| 3rd | 7 days |
| 4th | 30 days |
| 5th | forever |
60 days without an auto-ban — the count starts over. You see the reason and the length on screen every time you try to join. In the tops on the website a banned player is marked “ban”.
X-ray protection
X-ray and similar cheats won’t get you anything: the server doesn’t send the client what a player isn’t supposed to see.
- Ores, obsidian, ender chests and other valuable blocks are hidden underground — the client sees stone instead.
- Chests, barrels, shulkers and spawners are hidden even when they’re on the surface or inside a room — until you have a direct line of sight to them. You can’t look through someone’s base from your elytra.
- Diamond, emerald, gold and lapis ore are also hidden until you can see them.
Other punishments
| What for | What happens |
|---|---|
| Spam and flood | warning → your flood gets hidden → 2-hour ban |
| Advertising other servers | warning, second time within an hour — permanent ban across the whole network |
| Swearing | no punishment — the filter just replaces the words |
| Killing peaceful players | karma: red nick and penalties, not a ban |
| Logging out mid-fight (15 seconds after a hit) | your character dies and drops their stuff |
| Dupes, cheats, selling accounts and items for real money | ban from the admins |
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