Short rules. Enforced.

When a player kills you, every claim you own opens for 30 minutes. Mobs, falls, lava, the void and other natural deaths never open anything.

In an open claim anyone can use chests and other containers, doors, buttons and levers. Breaking or placing blocks, buckets, fire and explosions stay blocked.

Another PvP death while your window is open sets it back to the full 30 minutes.

When time runs out your claims lock again with the same trust as before. Lost items are not refunded.

The server already stops claims from overlapping. Claims made only to box in another player's base are removed.

You can fight on open ground and inside claims. Running away is allowed.

Hitting a player, or getting hit by one, tags you both for 15 seconds. Every hit restarts the timer.

While tagged you can't use /spawn, /home, /tpa, /tpahere, /tp, /tphere, /warp, /back, /rtp, /wild or team warps.

Log out while tagged and you die on the spot. The last player who hit you gets the kill, opens your claims and collects any bounty.

Trapping players at spawn or killing them again and again as they respawn is not allowed.

Only one kill on the same player counts every 30 minutes. Extra kills give no leaderboard kill, streak, raid or bounty. The death still counts for the victim.

You can't hurt your own team or allied teams. If one dies to you anyway, the kill doesn't count and no claim opens.

Kills between two players on the same IP address never count and never open a claim.

Using alt accounts or arranged deaths to pad stats, collect a bounty or open a friend's claim gets you banned.

On your first join you get 30 minutes of PvP protection. It only counts down while you are online.

While protected you can't hit players, they can't hit you, and you can't loot open claims.

/protection shows your time left. /protection off confirm ends it for good.

A team holds up to 8 members and 2 allied teams. A team with a premium member gets 16 members and 4 allies.

Teammates only get into your claim if you /trust them. A teammate's death opens their own claims, never yours.

Running several teams as one group to get around the member and ally limits is not allowed.

Insiding a team is a social crime, not a bannable one. Choose who you trust.

/bounty set <player> <amount> takes the money right away. The minimum is 100, and you can't put a bounty on yourself.

The whole pot goes to the next player whose kill counts. 10% of every bounty is taken as tax.

If nobody collects within 7 days, the money goes back to whoever placed it.

The Nether and the End stay closed until their opening date. Portals and teleports into a closed dimension are blocked. See the dates.

Getting into a closed dimension any other way counts as an exploit.

Taunts are part of the game. Slurs, threats and targeted harassment are not.

Real-world information about any player is an instant permanent ban.

No flooding chat, and no advertising other servers or links.

Keep the main channel English so moderation and callouts work for everyone.

Hacked clients, x-ray (mods or resource packs), combat mods, auto-clickers and macros are banned. Cosmetic and performance mods are fine.

Abusing a bug is treated the same as installing a cheat. Report it and the window stays honest.

Duplicated items are wiped. The economy is only interesting if it's real.

Builds or farms made to lag the server are removed.

Staff log every action. You can appeal once, with evidence.

Joining on another account while banned extends the ban to both.

Ranks are perks and convenience. Nothing sold protects your claim or changes the loot window.

The whole point of DuelSMP is meaningful PvP. If something you found removes the stakes, it will be removed.