Saurona

Community

• Treat others with respect. Harassment, discrimination, threats, targeted abuse, and excessive toxicity are not allowed.
• Keep disagreements civil. Do not repeatedly provoke, insult, target, or create problems with others.
• Do not spam, flood chat, impersonate others, or intentionally disrupt conversations or server activities.
• NSFW content, doxxing, malicious links, DDoS threats, or other content intended to threaten or endanger someone is not allowed.
• Do not advertise other Minecraft servers, Discord servers, communities, products, or services.
• Do not intentionally deceive, scam, or trick other players in trades or agreements.
• Treat staff with respect and cooperate with them when they are handling server matters.

Gameplay

• One account per player. Alternate accounts are not allowed.
• No hacked clients, cheats, x-ray, autoclickers, macros, scripts, or anything else that provides an unfair advantage.
• The official modpack must be used. Additional client-side quality-of-life and performance mods, such as minimaps, FullBright, HUD improvements, shaders, and similar mods are allowed as long as they do not provide an unfair advantage.
• No duping, bug abuse, exploit abuse, or intentionally taking advantage of broken or unintended mechanics. Serious exploits should be reported to staff.
• No stealing, griefing, or intentionally damaging another player's builds or property.
• AFK pools, movement loops, macros, or other methods used to bypass the server's AFK system are not allowed.
• Fly is provided for building only. Do not use it for travel, exploration, PvP, escaping danger, gathering resources, or any other gameplay advantage.

Playstyles

• Haven is the default playstyle. PvP is disabled and your inventory is protected on death.
• Mortal enables higher-risk gameplay, including PvP with other Mortal players, inventory drops on death, and access to bounties.
• Choosing Mortal is permanent unless changed by staff. Use /playstyle to check your current mode or /mortal to review the Mortal choice.

Progression

• Active playtime earns permanent rewards and upgrades. AFK time does not count toward progression.
• Your backpack starts small and gains additional rows through playtime rewards. Open it with /backpack.
• The virtual crafting table is unlocked through playtime progression and can be opened with /craft once earned.
• Weekly challenges give you a rotating set of objectives to complete for useful rewards. Check progress with /challenges.
• /playtime shows your active time played and progress toward upcoming rewards.

Bank

• Middle-earth coins can be stored in a personal server bank instead of taking up inventory space.
• /bank shows your balance and bank options, while /dep all deposits all supported coins from your inventory.
• Coins can be withdrawn with /wdraw <amount> or sent directly to another player with /transfer.

Factions

• /faction info shows your faction details, leadership, and members.
• Each faction can have a shared home that members can reach with /faction home.
• Faction leaders are responsible for setting and managing the faction home.

Fellowships

• Fellowships are smaller player groups with their own members, invites, private chat, and PvP settings.
• Use /fellowship to manage a fellowship and /fc for quick fellowship chat.

Mail

• Mail lets you leave messages for others even when they are offline.
• /mail opens your inbox, /mail send sends a message, and /mail gift can send the item held in your main hand.

Stats

• The server tracks useful gameplay statistics such as active playtime, kills, deaths, blocks placed, blocks mined, and more.
• View your own stats or another player's public stats with /stats.

Items

• Eligible items can be personalized with custom names, lore, and ownership engravings through Saurona's item tools.
• Some custom abilities and special rewards are earned through server progression rather than normal crafting.

Structure Standards

Applications are judged by both the listed requirements and the build as a whole. Meeting the minimum checklist does not guarantee approval. Staff look for builds that are complete, usable, organized, and show reasonable effort and quality.

Settlement Requirements

A Settlement is a faction's main approved population center and is required for faction leadership. It should feel like a complete, lived-in settlement rather than a collection of unrelated builds placed near each other.

Housing

• Include at least 8 complete houses.
• Each house should have a finished exterior and a usable furnished interior.
• Homes should have enough space to reasonably function as living spaces.
• Repeated styles are allowed, but the settlement should not look like the same unfinished shell copied repeatedly.

Public Center

• Include at least 1 completed public or civic building that gives the settlement a clear center.
• This may be a meeting hall, council building, market hall, religious building, gathering space, or another structure with an important shared purpose.
• The building should feel like a central part of the settlement rather than an isolated structure.

Storage

• Include a developed shared storage area for the settlement.
• A warehouse, granary, storehouse, supply yard, or similar build may be used.
• The area should clearly show where food, materials, equipment, or communal supplies are kept.
• Storage should be part of the settlement layout and easily accessible from the main roads or paths.

Production Sites

• Include at least 2 approved Production Sites within or directly connected to the settlement.
• At least 1 Production Site must provide food, such as a farm, ranch, fishery, orchard, or another believable food source.
• Production Sites must meet the separate Production Site requirements listed below.
• Some resources are not eligible for automated production. Check the current Production Site blacklist in Discord before building.

Keep

• Include a completed Keep that serves as the main building and fortified center of the settlement.
• The Keep should be substantial enough to stand apart from normal housing and smaller public buildings.
• Its interior should have believable uses such as leadership space, living quarters, storage, meeting rooms, military space, or other functions appropriate to the build.
• The Keep should be properly connected to the rest of the settlement rather than standing alone.

Military

• Include clear military support appropriate to the size and style of the settlement.
• This may include barracks, soldier housing, an armory, training grounds, stables, guard posts, supply areas, or similar structures.
• Military areas should look usable and should connect naturally to the Keep, defenses, and settlement roads.

Defenses

• Use walls, towers, gates, ditches, palisades, watch posts, or similar defenses where they make sense.
• Defenses should protect the developed settlement and its important structures.
• Do not surround large empty areas simply to make the settlement appear larger.
• Defensive builds should have usable entrances and connect logically to roads, military areas, and the Keep.

Roads

• Important structures within the settlement must be connected by proper roads or paths.
• Roads should be usable, clearly built, and feel like part of the finished settlement.
• The settlement must also have a made road leading to an established approved settlement.
• Bridges, stairs, gates, and other access points should be included where the terrain requires them.

Layout

• Everything should feel like it belongs to one completed settlement.
• Housing, the Public Center, storage, Production Sites, the Keep, military areas, defenses, and roads should all be connected and accessible.
• Structures should be arranged with a clear purpose instead of appearing as unrelated builds placed near one another.
• Staff will judge the settlement as a whole when deciding whether it feels complete and ready for approval.

Production Sites

Production Sites are dedicated builds used to produce specific resources. Anyone may build and apply for one; you do not need to lead a faction or own an approved Settlement.

There is no fixed list of Production Site designs. If a build is a believable way to gather, grow, craft, or process a resource, it can be reviewed for production. Some resources are intentionally excluded from automated production, so check the current Production Site blacklist in Discord before starting a build.

Production Sites

• The build must clearly match the resource being produced.
• It should look like a real work site, not just a marker, chest, or single machine.
• Include details that fit the job, such as tools, work areas, carts, paths, raw materials, workers' space, storage, or finished goods.
• Staff should be able to tell what the site produces by looking at it.
• Staff determine the approved resource and production rate during review.
• Any additional resource or side product must be included in the approval with its own rate.

Production Depots

A Production Depot is the storage area supporting a Production Site. It does not need to be large, but it should clearly show where produced resources are kept and should look like part of the work site.

• Include at least 1 storage container, such as a chest, crate, or barrel.
• The depot should be inside or beside a small building, shelter, wagon area, shed, or similar storage space.
• Include simple decor related to the Production Site, such as tools, stacked materials, or displayed resources.
• The depot must be reasonably close to the Production Site it supports.
• One developed depot may support more than one nearby Production Site when the layout makes sense.