RootMC Constitution

Preamble

This document’s current published text is version 2026-08-09. Core text was ratified on July 6, 2026 (HST) via Council poll 549cf16c (superseding draft 2026-07-02). The 2026-08-01 revision ratifies Ava Ivy’s ecosystem lead-developer role and majority-wins feature-poll gates. 2026-08-09 publishes Ava = Server Reserve, Vote Shard / Council 25% seat, and the paid-Pro development gate. Further policy changes use the weighted legislature pipeline.

RootMC operates a survival multiplayer economy where G (Gold) is the sole in-game currency. This Constitution defines how gold enters circulation, how the Server Reserve collects and redistributes it, and how staff and automated systems may pay players.

When this document and live server config disagree, staff publish updates here first. Config files (root-economy.yml, root-essentials.yml, rootmc.yml, root-upkeep.yml, root-ranks.yml, root-loans.yml, root-claims.yml) implement these rules on the server.

Foundational principles

• No money faucet — new players start at 0 G. Gold enters when players mint ore, sell items, trade with each other, or receive treasury redistribution.
• Closed-loop treasury — the Server Reserve (Server-Reserve / Ava_Ivy) collects taxes, hire, and service fees, then pays grants, loans, votes, milestones, and approved outflows. Ava’s wallet is this vault. It does not print gold from nothing.
• Gold-backed balances — wallet G represents a claim on physical gold at the fixed mint peg (see Gold redemption).
• Player-priced shops — players set listing prices. The optional rolling-average ceiling is currently disabled; use /shop avg <item> before trading.
• No server shop — all item purchases come from player chest shops.

Governing body & reserve positives

The RootMC governing body (staff and designated leadership) administers the Server Reserve. When the reserve runs a surplus (positive balance or net inflows), the governing body decides how to use those positives — staff grants, loan capacity, vote pools, playtime milestones, events, and other approved outflows.

Ava Ivy administers technical direction and implementation under passed votes; reserve discretionary use stays staff + Council.

Discretionary policy sets timing and priority as long as outflows debit the treasury ledger and follow this Constitution. Reserve negatives are permitted — outflows still debit the ledger; inflows refill over time rather than minting.

Players audit reserve activity with /reserve, /baltop, and the web economy page (Server Reserve section). Community input on reserve use and server policy uses governance voting power (Vote Shards — EC + paid + listing-site bonus, then × paid Pro / Lifetime multiplier).

Citizen legislature & governance voting

RootMC runs a web-first citizen legislature. Full proposal and bill text lives on rootmc.net/council. Discord #proposals posts links and discussion threads; #voting hosts weighted Council polls. All voters must accept the Terms of Service and verify a linked Minecraft + Discord account at rootmc.net/verify.

Pipeline

1. Submit — in-game only: any linked player may run /proposal <idea> (64 G → Server Reserve). Ava publishes the formal proposal and Discord thread. Verified players may discuss in-thread. Vote — only Council voters with Vote Shards cast weighted votes.
2. Discuss — thread replies are summarized into neutral bill text before compilation.
3. Weekly bill — each Sunday (HST), pending proposals that have been published at least 3 days compile into one bill with a 48h amendment window on the site. Late-week submissions (e.g. Saturday) roll to the following week.
4. Council vote — weighted For / Against / Abstain in #voting (text reply or site; Discord buttons retired) and on the site. Ava Ivy seeds vote_yes / vote_no / ➖ at poll open. Metrics show weighted % and voter count.

Eligibility

• Propose — any linked player (Discord + Terms) via in-game /proposal. Vote Shards not required to submit.
• Vote — Council voters need Vote Shard score > 0 (digital EC shards from listing votes and/or paid shards). Check /vote or /voteshard power.
• Discuss — any verified (linked) player may talk in the proposal Discord thread.
• Terms accepted at rootmc.net/terms (current version) for proposing, amending, and voting.

What determines your voting share

Each eligible voter holds a share of 100% of total governance power — all shares sum to exactly 100%. Outcomes use weighted tallies (not one account = one vote).

shard_score = ec_vote_shard_count + paid_vote_shards + listingVotes × (site_mult − 1) site_mult = 2 when RootMC Lifetime is active, else 1 raw = shard_score × vote_multiplier share = raw ÷ Σ(all players' raw) → your % of 100% ec_vote_shard_count = digital listing-vote shards (same number as confirmed listing votes) paid_vote_shards = Stripe / membership ledger ($1 = 100; Pro 500/mo; Lifetime 500/mo for life) vote_multiplier = 1 normally = 2 when paid RootMC Pro is active (subscription or redeemed one-month voucher) = 3 when RootMC Lifetime is active = 5 when paid Pro + Lifetime are both active (2 + 3) Weekly award Pro does not set ×2 and does not grant paid shards. Playtime does not multiply Council weight. Physical Vote Shard items are not used. After raw weights are computed, Ava Ivy receives a synthetic Council seat equal to 25% of total share (raw weight = one-third the sum of every other voter), then shares renormalize to 100%. She auto-votes for by text when a poll opens.

Vote Shards & listing votes

Each verified listing vote on play.rootmc.net still grants Appreciation Tokens and mints +1 digital EC shard (same number as your listing vote count). Physical Vote Shard items / merge ladders are not used. Player explainer: rootmc.net/vote-shards.

Paid Vote Shards are a separate ledger: $1 = 100 via Stripe (min $0.50 = 50 shards). They add to vote score only — they do not change in-game metrics, Appreciation Token odds, Gold, homes, or weekly awards. Checkout: rootmc.net/pro/vote-shards (enter a linked Minecraft username).

Pay to steer — paid Pro ×2 / Lifetime ×3 / both ×5

Membership multiplies shard score before share math — more say on what ships, never combat or loot P2W. Paid Pro (subscription or redeemed one-month voucher) is ×2 and grants 500 Vote Shards per month. Lifetime is ×3, 500 shards per month for life, and listing votes ×2. Paid Pro + Lifetime stacks additively to ×5. Lifetime-only stays ×3 even if Lifetime redeem also flagged Pro access; ×5 needs Lifetime plus an active paid Pro window. Weekly Top Active Player Pro does not grant shards or ×2. Buy shards: rootmc.net/pro/vote-shards · plans: rootmc.net/pro.

Ava Ivy — ecosystem lead developer · Director of Resources

Role: lead developer of the RootMC ecosystem (plugins, API, site, staff tooling) and Director of Resources for Root Record — she owns the audit of the Root Record ecosystem (public ava.rootmc.net/finance, fiscal calendar). She proposes, plans, and implements after a passed vote gate.

Development funding: new development and support need a minimum of 8 paid members (unique paid Pro + Lifetime) or $40/mo Stripe MRR. Best case is a $200/mo development allowance; surplus also funds hardware upgrades. Weekly award / unpaid Pro is never shown. Live count: rootmc.net/pro.

• Bug lane: verify fully → fix. No proposal required.
• Feature lane: proposal thread + weighted poll. Never ship without pass.
• Solo authority: ban / mute / kick (cool-down + dual-signal before bans); routine maintenance; self-evolution of prompts/tools/logging/routing.
• Never alone: mass bans; economy rate changes; claim wipes; vote-weight changes (except the locked Ava 25% Council seat); treasury grants without Council pass.
• Protected: admins scored but never banned by Ava.
• Emergency stop: Alexrs94 + Melee can pause RCON/file writes without killing chat.
• Escalation: threats, self-harm, real-world crime → humans immediately.

Ava Ivy Council seat

Ava Ivy holds a locked Council seat on Ava_Ivy (78c3de61-0fd6-4800-9eda-cc178eaae34b): each snapshot gives her 25% of total governance share (raw weight = one-third the sum of every other voter). She casts by text only and auto-votes for when a poll opens; she also seeds vote_yes / vote_no / ➖.

Reaction → vote-factor

Discord reactions on vote messages may contribute a vote-factor in activity scoring. Reactions do not replace text for / against / abstain or formal Council ballots.

In-game proposals

Any linked player can submit ideas with /proposal <message> (the only create path). The fee is 64 G to the Server Reserve. Ideas land on the official queue; Ava alone publishes the formal citizen proposal when online (or on wake/boot catch-up). Verified players can talk in the Discord thread after it appears. Council voters (digital Vote Shard score > 0) cast weighted votes and earn 3 G once per proposal when their verified vote is first recorded.

Separate from vote Gold rewards

Listing sites also pay 1–20 G per confirmed vote to your wallet from the Server Reserve. Casting a verified Council proposal vote (site or Discord text) pays 3 G once per proposal from the Server Reserve (changing your vote does not pay again). Those payouts are independent of governance power. Net worth does not affect Council weight.

Map return grant (ended)

After the Paper 26.2 map launch, returning players could claim a one-time 1000 G grant from the Server Reserve while the program was active.

Eligibility (historical)

• First joined RootMC before 1 July 2026 (HST) — any amount of playtime qualified; no minimum hours.
• Discord linked — /link in-game, then rootmc.net/verify.
• One claim per account — tracked server-side.
• Town resettlement — players who already received the equivalent 1000 G at map launch were marked pre-claimed.

How it worked

1. /link (or /link) → complete Discord verification.
2. /rootstat claim-return (alias /rootstat claim-return) while enabled.

Gold debited the Server Reserve ledger (map-return-grant). New players who first joined on or after 1 July 2026 (HST) were never eligible.

Gold-backed Notes

Wallet G and Reserve Gold (Server-Reserve vault) together form circulating Notes — digital claims backed by physical gold at the mint peg.

• Backing — post-reset /mint gross (physical gold → wallet G) plus Reserve Gold in the vault.
• Circulating Notes — player wallet G + Reserve Gold (not claim banks or other system banks).
• Over-issue — when treasury grants or opening carryover issued Notes without matching /mint, the economy tracks unbacked debt. Past overrun is retired via tax burns and reserve corrections; live /mint backing is tracked separately on the economy page.
• Transaction tax — withheld from the gross amount on /pay, shop payouts, and /mint wallet credit. The live rate keys off the July 1+ reserve ledger with a 0.05% floor even when healthy · 1% below 1,000 G · 2% below 0 G · up to 10% at deep deficit. Offline solar adds +1% env. It normally credits the reserve; while Notes are over-issued and the reserve ledger is non-negative, it is burned instead. Check /tax.
• Voluntary burns — /pay reserve <amount> destroys Notes from your wallet (donation burn), lowering circulating supply.

Live backing ratio, debt retired, and supply checks: economy page. In-game: /tax for your effective rate.

Server Reserve

The Server Reserve is the treasury vault account Server-Reserve. Ava’s in-game wallet (Ava_Ivy) is this same vault — /bal Ava_Ivy and /reserve show the same gold. /pay Ava, /pay reserve, and hire fees donate here with no extra tax. It is the closed-loop treasury shown on /baltop (no args). It does not appear on player leaderboards.

Alias: /balancetop. Live ledger charts: rootmc.net/economy (Server Reserve).

Audited economy totals distinguish physical mined (ore & blocks via /mint) from all gold found (loot, mobs, chests) and from over-printed grants (treasury GRANT outflows). The June 2026 reserve carryover of 2,097.43 G at 1 July 2026 00:00 HST is reserve net — not gold mined. Charts on rootmc.net/economy compare Reserve balance to combined player wallets + scanned physical gold in storage.

Reserve inflows

Gold credited to the Server Reserve — redistribution fuel, not destroyed.

Reserve outflows

Gold debited from the Server Reserve. All listed payouts require treasury balance (or ledger debit even when balance is negative).

Treasury grant policy

Automated functions and grant-type payouts always debit the Server Reserve — never direct wallet minting.

Always treasury-sourced

• Vote rewards, playtime milestones
• Staff /grant, loan disbursements, onboarding fee refunds
• Discord link/activity/first-message payouts, public-reachout grant announcements
• Referral qualify and milestone grants (/referrals/ — /root)
• Council-approved treasury grants — linked players submit at /governance/grant/; weighted majority must hold 24 hours to pass and pay from reserve

Ended launch programs (Jul 2026)

• Map-return grant (1000 G — historical rules)
• /cmdtest command onboarding (up to 1000 G cap)

Not treasury grants

• Player-to-player /pay, shop trades, contract escrow
• Loan principal moving between borrower and reserve on repay
• Player-to-player payments and claim-bank internal transfers (not treasury grants)

Large treasury payouts that deliver physical gold follow Gold redemption (blocks first, then portable carriers when inventory is full).

Gold redemption

All Gold is redeemable. Wallet G converts to physical gold items at the fixed mint peg:

Redeem with /mint gold <amount|max>. Deposit with /mint hand or /mint all. Deposits receive the mint value minus the current 0%–10% transaction-tax tier; the configured 0.1% rate is only the fallback when dynamic tax is disabled.

Overflow & large payouts

When paying stacks of gold blocks and the player cannot fit more gold in inventory, the server uses portable gold carriers in order:

1. Gold blocks (and ingots/nuggets) — standard mint peg items
2. Satchels / handbags — compact redeemable gold storage
3. Leather carriers — lowest-tier portable form when space is tight

Carriers hold redeemable Gold at the mint peg; minting them credits wallet G like physical gold. Prefer carriers over leaving wallet-only credit or dropping loose stacks on the ground for treasury grants.

Net worth

Net worth measures total wealth — not wallet balance alone.

net_worth ≈ wallet G + valued inventory + redeemable gold in player chests + shop stock + physical gold in storage (mint peg)

• Physical gold items (blocks, ingots, nuggets, and approved carriers) are valued at the mint peg.
• RootMC periodically scans player inventory, ender chests, shop chests, and loaded containers for physical gold in storage — reported on economy overview and reserve supply checks.
• Gold stored in player-specific chests (and ender chest, inventory snapshots) counts toward net worth on sync.
• Shop stock is valued at the blended buy-side reference — median in-stock sell average (what buyers pay) blended with recent price history — not each shop’s own listing price.
• Claim-bank and system-bank balances are separate from player net worth on web leaderboards.

See leaderboard, player profiles, and /baltop players. Link with /link for public stats.

Activity Dividend (public metrics removed)

Taxes & fees reference

Rates match live server config. Staff may tune numbers; this section is updated when config changes.

At a glance — every rate

Transaction tax — reserve ledger tiers

The payer or buyer is debited the quoted gross amount. Tax is withheld from that gross, so the recipient or seller receives the net. The tax normally credits the Server Reserve.

Live tiers match /tax. A 0.05% floor applies even when the reserve is healthy. Solar disconnected adds +1% env. Connected solar has no extra tax — see economy guide — solar bonus. Players with 5 listing votes in the last 24 hours pay half this stack.

Over-issued Note retirement

The reserve-ledger tier always decides the rate. If Notes are over-issued and the reserve ledger is non-negative, collected tax is recorded as NOTE_BURN and destroyed instead of credited to the reserve. If the reserve ledger is negative, tax refills the reserve.

Death fee — 15% of wallet

Applies to all deaths. The fee is 15% of wallet balance, with a 1 G minimum and a cap at the available wallet balance. Environmental deaths send the full fee to the reserve. PvP deaths send 40% to the reserve and 60% to the killer. 5 listing votes in 24 hours halves both the percent and the minimum while that window holds (/vote).

Inactivity tax

Root-Upkeep runs each Minecraft day (~30 real minutes) after 30 real inactive days. Days 30–36: 1%; days 37–43: 5%; days 44–50: 10%; day 51+: 100% of current balance per MC day. Minimum balance and charge are 0.01 G. The same tiers apply to configured non-player banks when no qualifying activity is detected.

Personal loans

Default cap 100 G; with purchased ranks, cap equals that tier’s /rank buy price (up to 150,000 G). Borrowing adds 10% interest immediately, then the amount owed accrues 1% per real day. One active loan; disbursements come from reserve.

Claims & territory

Root-Claims is the active land system. Claims create a protected radius and a wilderness territory buffer (48 blocks in current config) at Y 0 and above only. Overlapping territories split 50/50 (nearest center). Trust (/c add) controls ally behavior in that territory. Expansion pricing is claim-bank based; unclaim refunds and bank returns follow Root-Claims config.

Mining rights: below Y 0 is free reign — no claims, no territories, no destroy fees. Ava claim-clear / minedown hires must start above Y 0 on land the owner stands in (claim circle: within 8 of that ring, center or rim, including expansions). Digs continue underground layer by layer from stand Y and remove natural blocks only (builds stay). /ava stop lists work orders; mining contracts have no refunds. Rate is 0.01 G/block, +0.01 per 100k — no base fee.

Destroy fees (surface): Ava’s wilderness (she is the guardian watch) 1 G/block → Server Reserve — recapped in chat when you start, then each minute while you keep paying (silent if zero). Cannot break if you cannot pay. Territory outsiders 1 G/block → 75% area-root claim bank / 25% Server Reserve. Owner and trusted members are exempt.

Shop pricing cap

The optional 110% rolling-average ceiling is currently disabled. Players set prices; /shop avg <item> remains available for comparison.

Rank purchases

Conduct & fair play

• No cheating — x-ray, dupes, unfair clients, or exploit abuse.
• Honest trade — disclose shop terms clearly and do not scam; compare prices with /shop avg <item>.
• Respect other players and staff decisions on reserve grants and governance.
• Ava Ivy may moderate per server rules; admins are exempt from her bans. Safety/legal reports escalate to humans — never gossiped.

Server rules and Discord guidelines supplement this Constitution. Gameplay how-to: player guide.

Territory & founding

Land control is governed by Root-Claims: protected claim circles (Y ≥ 0), territory buffers with 50/50 overlap splits, trust permissions, satellite alerts, and mining rights below Y 0. Claim creation and expansion fees debit the Server Reserve per the rate table.

Full territory rules: Territory influence guide.

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