UHC Rules
Complete fair play rules for Ultra Hardcore in Espectral.
📋 Quick Summary (TL;DR)
❌ Prohibited
- Toxicity, insults, harassment — Offensive names included
- Modded clients — Hacks, X-Ray, minimaps, macros
- Crossteam, Truce, Saccy — Collaboration between teams
- Combat/PvE Log — Quitting to avoid death
- iPvP Pre-PvP — Stealing loot, killing others' villagers
- Skybases — Inaccessible without 5+ blocks
- Camping — Excessive hiding in final PvP
- Portal traps — Camping, blocking, lava at portals
- Regeneration splash — Only drinkable potions
- Maximum 4 bookshelves — When enchanting
- Suicide in random teams — Abandoning matches
✅ Allowed clients
- Vanilla
- FiveZig
- LabyMod
- Badlion
- Lunar
- Feather
Any extra functionality that gives an advantage must be disabled.
📜 Complete Rules
1. Total respect inside and outside UHC
Insults, toxic attitudes, malicious mockery, or out-of-game harassment are prohibited. Also applies in voice chats or private messages.
2. Cross-teaming, truce, or external collaboration prohibited
Forming alliances between teams, sharing information with other players (in-game or spectator), "sacrificing" for another player (saccy), or helping from spectator (spect help) is not allowed.
3. Tools that give unfair advantages prohibited
Includes:
- Hacks
- Resource packs with unfair enhancements (see enchants, see mobs, lava clear, subtle x-ray)
- Minimaps
- Macros or autoclickers (exception: autotext
/tlor/helpop) - Abuse of F3+A to see hidden entities or structures
4. Skybases prohibited unless host says otherwise
5. Excessive camping or hiding in final PvP prohibited
Penalty: damage, warning, or /kill. Includes:
- Mining extensively to avoid PvP
- Being invisible without real strategic reason
- Staying in impossible-to-access zones for prolonged time
6. Portal traps prohibited
- Camping portal
- Trapping players entering a portal
- Using lava at the exit
- Breaking blocks to make players fall
- Waiting at 0,0 for players exiting the End
7. Combat Log prohibited
Quitting the game to avoid dying in combat is fully sanctioned. Penalty: /kill, ban, or both.
8. PvE Log prohibited
Quitting to force mob despawn or avoid death is fully prohibited. Doing this results in warning or damage.
9. iPvP pre-PVP on: completely prohibited
You cannot:
- Steal items from chests, furnaces, player corpse while the team is present collecting
- Kill others' villagers if the owner is present
- Break spawners if a player is present
10. Permitted clients
Only the following clients are allowed:
- Vanilla, FiveZig, LabyMod, Badlion, Lunar, Feather
Any extra functionality that gives advantage must be disabled.
11. Staff has authority to sanction unforeseen actions
If something is considered unsportsmanlike or breaks the spirit of the game, it can be sanctioned even if not explicitly in these rules. This includes banning a player or muting them indefinitely.
12. In UHC with random teams: suicide or abandoning the match prohibited
This rule also applies to randomly formed teams in Chosen matches. Quitting is only allowed with serious justification. Doing it several times could result in a total ban from random teams mode.
13. Killing your teammate as a joke or betrayal not allowed
Even with friendly fire on, sabotage is punishable.
14. Offensive names and inappropriate skins prohibited
15. Using alt accounts to spectate or gather info prohibited
Secondary accounts watching the map, coordinates, or others' exploration are not allowed.
16. Exploiting server, plugin, or datapack bugs prohibited
Errors must be reported to staff for resolution.
17. Regeneration potions cannot be splash
18. Maximum bookshelves when enchanting
Maximum allowed bookshelves when enchanting is 4 unless specified in the announcement.
❓ Detailed Definitions
🏗️ What counts as a Skybase?
A Skybase is any elevated surface above the combat zone that is not accessible to other players by naturally generated means and/or with less than 5 support blocks.
| Situation | Skybase? |
|---|---|
| Height from a natural mountain | ❌ NO — Natural and has many paths up |
| Tree with inaccessible leaves | ✅ YES — Requires blocks to climb |
| Floating rock from Savanna Plateau | ✅ YES — Not accessible without blocks |
| Base with inaccessible pillar | ✅ YES — Requires several blocks or pearls |
🏕️ What counts as Camping?
Camping is when a player does not leave their position on the battlefield for a prolonged time without performing any specific action, or is underground during the meetup.
| Situation | Camping? |
|---|---|
| Cubicle near border waiting for others | ✅ YES — Waiting without acting |
| Cubicle during meetup for potions/enchanting | ❌ NO — Has legitimate protection purpose |
🤝 What counts as Crossteam?
Crossteam is joint actions by two or more teams that cause an unjustified disadvantage to another team, while other teams are not affected and/or benefit.
Situation 1: CROSSTEAM ✅
Team A walking through terrain, Teams B and C on oak trees. B and C don't fight each other because they're fewer, but both shoot at A for having more people.
Is crossteam: Causes unjustified disadvantage — A fights two teams while B and C collaborate.
Situation 2: NOT crossteam ❌
Team A flees from B because they're low on health. During the chase, Team C joins pursuing A.
Not crossteam: A is a favorable target due to low health. Multiple teams may want their loot.
Situation 3: CROSSTEAM ✅
Teams A and B fighting, Team C joins. A quits by strategy, but both B and C pursue A while ignoring each other or helping with boosting.
Is crossteam: A is not a favorable target (quit by strategy). C should also pursue B.
🏆 Official UHC — Special Rules
Official UHCs are long matches (1h40+) with more restrictive rules:
- Only Vanilla client allowed.
- No Optifine or Fabric API.
- Vanilla texture pack is forced upon joining.
- Prohibited: No Fog, Fullbright, c-counter, hat-layer, pie ray, zoom.
- Violation results in ban from all Official UHCs.
⚠️ These rules only apply to "Official UHCs". Most UHCs are not official.
🖥️ Useful Commands
| Command | Function |
|---|---|
/uhcteam create | Create a team |
/uhcteam invite | Invite someone to your team |
/uhcteam chat global | Activate global chat |
/uhcteam chat team | Activate team chat |
/uhcteam chat | Toggle between global and team chat |
/tl | Send your coordinates to your team |
/helpop | Message all connected staff members |
/afk | Mark as AFK (doesn't prevent being killed) |
/discord | Show server invite link |
Spectators can speak in global chat by adding ! at the beginning of the message.
📋 Updates
Rules may be updated. The most recent version is always in the official Discord.
View rules on Discord →Site index
Welcome
Espectral is a Spanish-speaking Minecraft community focused on UHC, PvP, and competitive modes, active since 2019. We are the most popular Vanilla UHC server in Spanish, with over 725 players with wins and +3,800 UHC matches recorded.
Explore our game modes and find your favorite.
How to join
Discord comes first. Invites, match announcements, support, and rule updates are posted there.
- Join the Espectral Discord server.
- Read the welcome and rules channels.
- Follow announcements to get game-server access.
Server IP: espectral.es or uhc.espectral.es
No premium account? No problem: every Espectral server accepts non-premium (cracked) accounts. You can also play from Bedrock (MCPE, Windows 10/11) via Geyser by connecting to the same IP.
Game Modes
Espectral offers multiple game modes:
- ⚔️ Vanilla UHC — Vanilla UHC. Ultra Hardcore with no natural regen. Available in several Minecraft versions.
- ⚡ UHC Meetups — UHC Meetups. Lightning matches with predefined kits. Under 10 minutes per game, pure action.
- 🕐 24/7 Server — 24/7 Server. 24/7 UHC Meetups server with autohost: rounds every few minutes with a 2-player threshold.
- 🏰 The Towers — The Towers. Capture towers, defend your team, control the map.
- 🏹 Hunger Games — Hunger Games. Survival Games with chests scattered across the map. Last player standing wins.
- 📋 Bingo Espectral — Bingo Espectral. Co-op/competitive item bingo: complete lines or the full card. Tiers S–D and line/full-card win modes.
- 🎮 Minigames — Minigames. Community-built arcade minigames. Rotating lineup, short sessions.
- 🛡️ Conduct — How the moderation system and the weekly panel work.
Servers
Espectral runs three specialized servers:
- Espectral UHC — Daily UHC, Meetups, flagship modes (
uhc.espectral.es). Version: 26.2 (plugin 2.2.17-B). - 24/7 Server — UHC Meetups server open 24/7 with autohost and continuous rounds (
24h.espectral.es). - Espectral Games — Rotating-modes server: Hunger Games, The Towers, Bingo and more (
uhc2.espectral.es).
Community
- ✅ Active since 2019 — Established community.
- ✅ +725 players with wins recorded.
- ✅ +3,800 UHC matches recorded.
- ✅ Daily games with constant fills.
- ✅ Spanish-speaking community — Spain and LATAM.
- ✅ Prize tournaments every 1-3 months.
FAQ
How do I join a server?
Join Discord and follow access announcements. IP: uhc.espectral.es
What Minecraft version is supported?
UHC 26.2 (Paper API 26.2.build.87-stable, plugin 2.2.17-B).
Can I play from Latin America?
Absolutely! We have players from all over Latin America and Spain.
Do Meetups take long?
No, Meetups last under 10 minutes.
