Skyblock and Survival share in common the following rule, specific to their gamemodes:
- "AFK mining" is NOT the same thing as "auto farming", otherwise "AFK mining" would be redundant
- Thus, there's a material difference between what the rules are on Skyblock and Survival
In addition to that, an obvious justification for banning "AFK mining" exists on Skyblock, while farms that involve "AFK mining" have been widely accepted in vanilla gameplay for over a decade. That would be the extremely powerful oregen that Invaded uses for Skyblock (about 50% of cobble generated on Skyblock becomes some sort of ore, if I remember right) which would be a very overpowered farm if AFK mined.
We know that "AFK mining" and "auto farming" are legally different. What's the physical difference? Well, the state of your computer, let's take whether the mouse is clicked as an example, doesn't change when you are AFK mining. You are simply using tape, a rock, or something like that to hold it in one state without intervention. However, "auto farming" means the state automatically changes: it repeatedly clicks, it automatically sells stuff, or something like that. It doesn't matter how you do it. A servo motor programmed to click your mouse repeatedly is the same idea.
Holding down a mouse button with a rock is useful for things like cobble gens, basalt gens, snow farming, AFK fishing, and other widely acceptable types of farms. It cannot be used to grind mobs automatically or anything like that, which require repeated clicking and therefore a clearly bannable autoclicker, macro, motor, or whatever.
However, some staff appear to believe there is no physical or legal difference. This is ridiculous on its face. Right now, you risk getting banned for using a rock to weigh down your mouse in Survival, which is NOT explicitly banned while it IS in Skyblock.
The fact that a specific rule exists on Skyblock implies, to any reasonable person, that the existence of this rule is necessary to prohibit AFK mining and that the non-existence of this rule on Survival means AFK mining is allowed there.
I am not asking that the rule be re-written. I am simply asking that staff use the obvious interpretation of the rule as it is currently written, which is that AFK mining and other things that only involve holding one state are allowed on Survival and players should face no risk for doing it. It is absolutely trivial to tell the difference between it and an autoclicker; there's no overlap between a rock and an autoclicker in terms of what they are used for.
- No auto-farming (using programs such as a console client to automatically issue commands like /sell all)
- No AFK mining (weighing down/using a program to mine from a cobble gen)
- No x-raying or auto-mining for ores
- "AFK mining" is NOT the same thing as "auto farming", otherwise "AFK mining" would be redundant
- Thus, there's a material difference between what the rules are on Skyblock and Survival
In addition to that, an obvious justification for banning "AFK mining" exists on Skyblock, while farms that involve "AFK mining" have been widely accepted in vanilla gameplay for over a decade. That would be the extremely powerful oregen that Invaded uses for Skyblock (about 50% of cobble generated on Skyblock becomes some sort of ore, if I remember right) which would be a very overpowered farm if AFK mined.
We know that "AFK mining" and "auto farming" are legally different. What's the physical difference? Well, the state of your computer, let's take whether the mouse is clicked as an example, doesn't change when you are AFK mining. You are simply using tape, a rock, or something like that to hold it in one state without intervention. However, "auto farming" means the state automatically changes: it repeatedly clicks, it automatically sells stuff, or something like that. It doesn't matter how you do it. A servo motor programmed to click your mouse repeatedly is the same idea.
Holding down a mouse button with a rock is useful for things like cobble gens, basalt gens, snow farming, AFK fishing, and other widely acceptable types of farms. It cannot be used to grind mobs automatically or anything like that, which require repeated clicking and therefore a clearly bannable autoclicker, macro, motor, or whatever.
However, some staff appear to believe there is no physical or legal difference. This is ridiculous on its face. Right now, you risk getting banned for using a rock to weigh down your mouse in Survival, which is NOT explicitly banned while it IS in Skyblock.
The fact that a specific rule exists on Skyblock implies, to any reasonable person, that the existence of this rule is necessary to prohibit AFK mining and that the non-existence of this rule on Survival means AFK mining is allowed there.
I am not asking that the rule be re-written. I am simply asking that staff use the obvious interpretation of the rule as it is currently written, which is that AFK mining and other things that only involve holding one state are allowed on Survival and players should face no risk for doing it. It is absolutely trivial to tell the difference between it and an autoclicker; there's no overlap between a rock and an autoclicker in terms of what they are used for.
