Blu Pearson wrote:

Hello brother, today I saw a pretty sweet pigman gold/xp farm tut and thought I would try and build it. The tut said to build this farm on top of the nether so the spawning would be higher. I didn’t know you could get above the nether so I thought if its possible that would be awesome because not falling in lava is a good thing. When I asked in general chat how to get on top of the nether I found out it was banned as well as gold farms because of lag and such. Which makes sense. My question is; Are there other farms that are banned and what they might be. I have seen that AFK machines are not allowed (but I don’t know what those are) or what falls into that category. The reason I ask is I want to take my base to the next level and put in as much automation as possible for renewable items without breaking the rules or the server. If a system has the ability to turn on and off does it make them ok? as opposed to systems that are running as long as the chunk is loaded. Just trying to get a clear focus before I go crazy building and get in trouble and have to tear things apart. Thanks in advance

Hey Blu

1. we ban anyone that builds on top of the nether, this is a permanent instant ban, this area is not suppose to be built on and can cause chunk issues, we have had previous chunks being corrupted by selfish players building up on top of the nether, this is why it is a permanent ban.
2. AFK machines are banned because these people;
   1. Are using them to farm XP or items from a grinder of whatever, this usually includes a machine that uses up precious ticks, im not a fan of someone using server resoruces 24/7 for their own personal gain when they are not even playing, as this removes the resources from others that are trying to enjoy the server.
   2. Someone is trying to rank up quicker without playing normally.
3. Gold farms were a large part of the server until I disabled nether portals allowing pigmen through, this greatly improved PVP when we were back in 1.7-1.8 when Gapples were present. Hacking accusations dropped by 90%, and improved the market for gold and reduced server resource consumption, gold farms are still a no-no in my books, but its not as bad as it used to be.
4. Automation is fine, a lot of people automate amazing farms with villagers, these are cool, as long as it wont globally effect the rest of the server or tip the balance into abusing, were very lenient, Its only after people abuse, and abuse and abuse and abuse that we needed to put in rules for specific farm types, if you have a question about a specific farming technique, then please don’t hesitate to ask, forums are usually better.