Rules

Everyone follows the server rules. Guards follow the guard rules on top of them.

Server rules

Same as /rules in-game. An arrow means the punishment goes up for repeat offences. Open a rule for the details.

  1. 1
    No unfair modifications30d ban → permanent

    Health indicators are allowed. Minimaps that show players, advantage-giving mouse tweaks and world downloaders are not.

    • ‣Anything that gives you an advantage over players on an unmodified client counts: hacked clients, kill aura, reach, fly, speed, phase or noclip, x-ray, auto-clickers and macros.
    • ‣A minimap is fine as long as it doesn’t show players. Health indicators are fine.
    • ‣World downloaders are not allowed, even if you only want a copy of the map.
    • ‣Not sure about a mod? Ask staff in a Discord ticket before you join with it.
    • ‣The first offence is a 30 day ban. A second one is permanent.
  2. 2
    No excessive toxicity1–7d mute
    • ‣parole is a rough role-play server. Swearing, trash talk (ez, L, noob), in-game threats (“I’ll shank you”) and insults aimed at a role (“dumb guards”) are all part of the game.
    • ‣What isn’t: abuse aimed at a real person, like slurs, harassment, telling someone to kill themselves (kys and its variants), attacks on someone’s family or appearance, and any joke or threat about sexual violence.
    • ‣An automatic chat filter checks main, team and gang chat and private messages for this. Each hit is a strike: a warning, then a 30 minute mute, 2 hours, 1 day, and doubling from there. Strikes expire after 30 days.
    • ‣Staff can also mute you for 1 to 7 days for it.
  3. 3
    No NSFW1d → permanent mute
    • ‣No sexual or graphic content anywhere on the server: chat, private messages, signs, books, names, skins, gang names and builds.
    • ‣It starts at a 1 day mute and goes up to a permanent one for repeat offences.
  4. 4
    Don’t advertise other servers1h–1d mute
    • ‣Don’t post server addresses, invites to other Minecraft communities, or tell players to go play somewhere else.
    • ‣Talking about another server in normal conversation is fine. Recruiting players for one is not.
  5. 5
    No chat flood or spammingWarning → 2h mute
    • ‣Repeating the same message, flooding chat with lines or letters, and walls of caps or symbols all count.
    • ‣Spamming /report, /helpop or staff with junk counts too.
    • ‣You get a warning first, then mutes of up to 2 hours.
  6. 6
    No exploiting bugs1h → permanent ban

    Report bugs to staff instead.

    • ‣Using a bug on purpose to get an advantage is exploiting: duplicating items, getting into places you shouldn’t be able to reach, skipping escape steps, or getting chocolate, credits or gear the game didn’t mean to give you.
    • ‣Found one? Open a ticket on Discord. Items or currency gained from a bug can be removed.
    • ‣Small or accidental cases get a short ban. Big ones, like duping, can be permanent.
  7. 7
    No spawnkilling or targetingWarning → 4h ban

    Repeatedly killing the same prisoner for no reason (3–4 times in a short time).

    • ‣Killing the same player again and again, without a reason the game gives you, ruins the game for them. That includes waiting at a spawn point or camping someone after every death.
    • ‣Mass killing (going after everyone around you for no reason) is treated the same way.
    • ‣Guards: the guard rules decide when you may kill a prisoner. Kills that follow them are never targeting.
    • ‣You get a warning first, then bans of up to 4 hours.
  8. 8
    No alts to boost your account1–7d ban

    Including extra storage, extra copies of limited items, free guard gear or farming guard bits.

    • ‣Your alts can’t feed your main account. That covers extra storage, extra copies of limited items, free guard gear, farming guard bits, and boosting votes, gangs or leaderboards.
    • ‣Using an alt to dodge a ban or mute is also not allowed, and gets the alt banned too.
    • ‣The server links accounts that join from the same connection, so staff can see alts.
  9. 9
    No gang vault raiding1–30d ban

    Taking many valuables from your gang vault against the gangmaster’s will.

    • ‣The gang vault belongs to the whole gang. Emptying it, or taking a lot of valuables the gangmaster didn’t agree to, is raiding.
    • ‣Every vault deposit and withdrawal is logged, and staff use those logs to check reports.
    • ‣Taken items can be given back to the gang.

Using alts to evade a punishment is not allowed either. Think a punishment was a mistake? Appeal it in a ticket on Discord.

Guard rules

Same as /guardrules in-game. They apply to every guard rank.

  1. 1
    Only use guard gear

    Don’t use items you can’t get from the guard armory or a guard shop.

    • ‣That includes items from your prisoner or fugitive inventory, and items other players give you.
  2. 2
    Stay out of tunnelsDetectives exempt

    Tunnels have a cyan terracotta floor.

    • ‣Prisoners can still be killed for entering a tunnel (see below). Shoot from outside, don’t follow them in.
  3. 3
    Stay out of escape routesDetectives exempt
  4. 4
    Stay out of the fugitive hutsDetectives exempt
  5. 5
    Don’t team with prisoners

    Letting a prisoner off when you catch them doing something illegal counts as teaming.

    • ‣So does warning prisoners about searches, handing them items, or ignoring a friend’s contraband. While you’re on duty, everyone is treated the same.
  6. 6
    No killing prisoners for no reason
    • ‣A prisoner who follows the routine and carries nothing illegal is off limits, even if they insult you in chat.
  7. 7
    Only kill prisoners you catch doing something illegal

    If a prisoner kills you, you can’t run back and kill them unless they’re doing something illegal, even though you know they killed you.

    • ‣You have to see it yourself. Hearing about it in chat, or seeing it before you died, doesn’t count.
  8. 8
    You must kill prisoners who
    • ‣Have contraband out. If they drop it, you don’t have to.
    • ‣Attack you or another player. A single hit doesn’t count.
    • ‣Were caught with contraband by the detectors (glowing effect).
    • ‣Are outside a cell at lights out. You may let them in if they’re at the cell door.
    • ‣Enter a tunnel. Not if they come back out, or if the tunnel is only 1 block long.
    • ‣Are outside the prison.
    • ‣Dig a tunnel with a tool.
    • ‣Pickpocket you, unless they make it back to the duck.
  9. 9
    You must kill fugitives
  10. 10
    Push prisoners back from open escape routes

    While an escape route is open, you can hit prisoners within 3 blocks of it.

Guards who break these rules get a strike. Every third strike is an automatic demotion, and serious or repeated cases can get you blacklisted from the guards. You can appeal a blacklist by opening a ticket on Discord.

Saw someone break a rule?

Use /report in-game, or open a ticket on Discord with proof. Bugs go to staff too.

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