Server Rules

Friendly banter and competitive PvP trash-talk are part of the game — "I'm going to destroy you this round" is totally fine. What is not fine is making the game miserable for someone:

• Targeted harassment, bullying, or following a player around to ruin their experience.
• Needless toxicity — insults and put-downs that carry on once the round is over.
• Pile-ons — a group ganging up on one person in chat or on voice.
• Telling someone to "kill themselves" (or anything similar), even as a "joke".
• Slurs or demeaning remarks dressed up as banter.

Consequence: Mute or ban, at staff discretion. Sexual harassment, or severe or sustained harassment, is a permanent ban.

No slurs or hateful content targeting anyone's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, or identity. Our filter blocks this automatically, everywhere, in text and on voice.

Consequence: Mute or ban, at staff discretion.

No sexual or sexually explicit content in chat, on voice, in names, or anywhere else on the network.

Zero tolerance: any content that sexualizes minors results in an immediate, permanent ban and is reported to the appropriate authorities.

• No doxxing. Never share anyone's real name, address, school, workplace, or other personal information.
• No credible real-world threats of violence.

This is about real life. In-game PvP talk ("I'll kill you", "you're dead next round") is part of the game and is fine — threatening someone in real life is not.

PharoGames is competitive, so anything that gives an unfair advantage is banned:

• Hacked or modified clients (killaura, reach, X-ray…), autoclickers, schematica / printer / world-download mods, and intentionally abusing dupes or bugs — temporary ban → permanent on repeat.
• Minimaps, and mousetweaks-style auto-stacking / fast-looting mods — warning first → temporary ban.
• Health indicators — any mod, client feature, or overlay that shows you another player's health, whether that's hearts or an HP number over their nametag, a damage tint, or a health bar. Switch it off before you play here — warning first → temporary ban.

Allowed: fair performance and cosmetic mods are fine — Sodium, OptiFine, shaders, and clients like Lunar and Badlion. Those clients ship a health indicator, so turn that one module off; the rest of the client is fine. Found a bug or dupe? Report it instead of abusing it.

Winning a match should mean you outplayed the lobby. Anything that fakes that result is out:

• No cross-teaming. In a solo game, working with another player against everyone else is cheating, whether you arranged it beforehand or you just quietly stopped hitting each other.
• No win-trading or stat boosting. Don't hand out kills, wins, or losses to farm stats, leaderboard places, coins, or battlepass progress.
• No ghosting. Once you're dead or spectating, don't feed information to players still alive. Spectator chat is separated for a reason, and routing around it on Discord or a call is the same offense.
• No AFK farming. Idling through matches to collect coins, XP, or progress isn't playing.
• No griefing, intentional team-killing, throwing a match on purpose, or disrupting lobbies.

Queue into team modes with your friends as much as you like — that's the point of them. The line is a solo game, where everyone is meant to be on their own. Staff review match replays, so this is easier to spot than it looks.

In-game voice is for talking to the people around you.

• No mic spam, screaming, soundboards, or holding the key down to play music.
• No clipping, distorted, or deliberately painful audio.
• Rules 1 through 4 apply to what you say out loud exactly as they apply to what you type.

Voice is always recorded, for every speaker, and transcribed for the same filter that reads chat. You must be at least 13 to talk on voice. Our Privacy Policy covers what we keep and for how long.

• No ban evasion or mute evasion. Using an alternate account to get around a ban or a mute is an immediate permanent ban.
• No account sharing, selling, or buying.
• No scamming, and no real-money trading. Buying or selling accounts, in-game items, or currency for real money is an immediate permanent ban.
• No payment fraud. Filing a chargeback for something you received and used, instead of contacting us first, gets those items revoked and can get you banned. Message us on Discord or email support@pharogames.net and we'll sort it out.

No offensive, hateful, or sexual usernames, nicknames, skins, or capes.

• Don't impersonate staff. Nothing in your name, nickname, or skin should suggest you work here or can hand out punishments.
• Don't impersonate another player or a creator, and don't claim their rank, wins, or reputation as yours.

Wearing a /nick disguise is a feature, and using one is fine. Using one to convince somebody you're staff is not.

• Don't flood chat or repeat the same message — there's a short cooldown to keep chat readable.
• Links to other websites and servers are automatically removed; only Twitch and PharoGames links work in chat. Advertising isn't punished — the link is simply stripped.

A moderator reads every report and every appeal, so wasting that time costs the players who need it.

• Don't report someone you have no reason to suspect, and don't organise a group to bury a player in reports.
• Don't spam appeals or open tickets to relitigate a decision you already appealed.

Reporting in good faith and turning out to be wrong is completely fine. Report what you saw, pick the match, and let staff check the replay.