New Player's Guide

Spawn

Player Candidates will spawn in the in-game City of Plymouth in Plymouth County, Wachusett. Upon passing the in-game Custom, Border, and Citizenship Services' inspection at Plymouth Municipal Airport, a Player Candidate becomes a virtual Mass Island Citizen. Then, please enjoy a warm welcome event hosted by the server administrators and in-game government employee players to become familiar with the map. All players are in Adventure Mode. Creative Mode or Spectator Mode may be granted temporarily only upon finding special needs by the in-game government and pursuant to server rules.

Live

New Citizens are offered 5 Minecraft-years' (25 real-world days) free housing and various in-game interest-free government loans. Low-income and unemployed players are paid social security to satisfy their basic needs in the virtual world. Following our Instagram and YouTube Channel grants you 5 additional Minecraft-years of in-game free housing.

Learn

Most in-game jobs require a minimum of in-game high school diploma. Plymouth County public school system contains affordable in-game high schools where players learn the fundamentals of the server and basic gaming skills. Players may also attend virtual colleges to learn and research advanced gaming, programming, and administrative skills, which in turn grants them more in-game career opportunities and possible server administration roles.

Social

Players may virtually get married in the virtual world but may not establish virtual parent-child relationship with any other player except through adoption by express consent from both virtual adopting parents and the virtual adopted child.

Die

Players should consider purchasing life insurance plans, establishing trusts and other nonprobate transfers, or executing a will. Upon death of a player, his or her estate will be devised by intestacy, probating a valid will, or through a trust or other nonprobate transfers. Without valid testamentary document, the decedent player’s assets will be subject to intestacy rules and might be surrendered to the State. The beneficiary of any testamentary document must not be the testator player him- or herself. After demise, a player may only rejoin as a new player and start all over again.

Laws

As the in-game Supreme Court of Mass Island decided, "[a]ll federal laws of the United States are presumed to be applicable to the virtual world of Mass Island", "[t]he presumption is rebutted on a United States law that is: (1) superseded by a virtual-world law of Mass Island governing the same or substantially similar matters as to their real-world correspondence; or (2) decided to be fundamentally inapplicable to the virtual world of Mass Island by an in-game court." 

Massachusetts laws are presumed to be applicable to the in-game State of Wachusett, and District of Columbia laws are presumed to be applicable to the in-game District of Columbia. All county- and municipal-level laws and regulations from corresponding States in the real-world may be considered as and only as secondary resources by an in-game court and not presumably binding.

Emergency

In compliance with US laws, the server administration team may declare Server Emergency and shut down the server upon finding a server shutdown is necessary to cease law violation, to investigate into safety and security incidents, or to prevent or stop loss and damage. All gaming events are paused during the Server Emergency and will resume when the Server Emergency is lifted.

Presumption of Death (don't be inactive!)

In the in-game State of Wachusett, "a [player] whose death is not established [by the death of the player's virtual character] who is absent for a continuous period of 5 [Minecraft] years, during which the [player] has not been heard from, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained after diligent search or inquiry, is presumed to be dead. The [player]'s death is presumed to have occurred at the end of the period unless there is sufficient evidence for determining that death occurred earlier" per M.G.L. c. 190b §1-170(5). 

In the in-game District of Columbia, "If a [player] leaves [the Server] without a known intention of changing it, and does not return or is not heard from for 7 [Minecraft] years from the time of his so leaving, he shall be presumed to be dead in any case where his death is in question, unless proof is made that he was alive within that time" per DC Code §14-701. 

All in-game federal laws presume a player to be dead after 7 Minecraft years of disappearance.

A player may file a Temporary-Leave-Notice to the in-game Custom, Boarder, and Citizenship Services, which allows the filing player additional 7 Minecraft years before being presumed to be dead. The Notice may be filed up to once every 60 real-world days and be renewed up to once every natural real-world year per Mass Island's Player Inactiveness Act of 2020. 

Also under this Act, in-game government employee players may file the Notice up to once every 180 real-world days and may renew the notice only once during his entire term of government employment.