1. The body you are uploading was not indexed properly.
2. The body you are uploading is not indexed and shouldn’t have a background.
3. You’ve set transparency for a body that is not indexed, or you haven’t set transparency for a body that is indexed.
4. The head you are uploading has a visible background.
5. There is a visible background on some animation frames of a head because you forgot to delete them.
6. Your body has a “glow” effect.
7. If you accidentally upload a converted JPEG, it may have a background.
8. The head you’re uploading is animated and was not exported correctly from your program/the site you downloaded it from and has become corrupted. Try re-exporting/downloading a new version of it.

1. There is pure black or white somewhere on your upload (usually an outline or the eyes.)
2. There are other transparency issues where there is an invisible gap between something.
3. The head you’re uploading is animated and was not exported correctly from your program/the site you downloaded it from and has become corrupted. Try re-exporting/downloading a new version of it.

1. Lingerie, implied or “softcore” nudity (genitals and/or nipples are covered but the outfit is still provocative) and of course full-nudity.
2. “Ahegao” or highly sexualized facial expressions.
3. Nipples (on ALL customs regardless of gender/implied gender.)
4. Nazi imagery or symbolism, and other racist or antisemitic imagery.
5. Gun imagery.
6. Brand names or logos associated with inappropriate brands or companies (EX: a body wearing a Hooters uniform.)
7. Words or phrases which are inappropriate.
8. Excessive blood and gore.
9. Extreme political or controversial content.
10. Uploads created with the clear intention of harassing another person.
11. Bodies which can be manipulated into showing anything inappropriate (as listed above)
12. Anything which is otherwise distasteful.

1. All bodies must have visible and moving arms and legs on walking, pushing, pulling, and sword-attack frames. Hair extensions, capes, and other minor accessories can obstruct the visibility, movement, or function of arms and legs.
2. The body you’ve uploaded has more than 2 arms, and/or more than 2 legs.
3. The body you’ve uploaded has no arms or no legs.
4. The body you’ve uploaded is one solid colour and the arms/legs are implied but are not visible most of the time.

1. You’ve uploaded a shield which covers the body completely or mostly.

1. Your shield is meant to act as a banner/flag, mount, hat, or another in-game item.
2. You’ve uploaded a shield which acts as a body part or clothing, such as slippers, hair extensions, or a tail.
3. You’ve uploaded a shield that looks like a floor or tileset.
4. You are uploading an in-game file directly.

1. You’ve uploaded a head with a hat, mask or accessory. NOTE: Small hats and accessories are allowed if they're not sourced from in-game files; head accessories must be small, connected, and cohesive with the rest of the head. It may even "complete the look." It doesn't look out of place or mismatched to the head.
2. Your head is wearing sunglasses (only prescription (clear) glasses are allowed.)
3. A body you’ve uploaded has wings, a scarf, a backpack, cape, shoulder pads, long tail, or sword sheath.
4. Your body is holding a soda bottle, cup of coffee, stuffed animal, etc.
5. There’s a hair-bow that looks more like a hat than it does like it’s part of the hair.
6. You’ve uploaded a shield that acts as a flag or banner.
7. A shield you’ve uploaded is meant to act as a hat or accessory.

1. You’ve uploaded a body which does not fit the default head. EX: bodies which are too short, too thin, or both.
2. A head you’ve uploaded is too small and doesn’t fit the default body correctly.
3. You’ve uploaded a head which doesn’t fit onto the default body correctly, or there are large gaps between the default body and the head. Check the back-facing frames, where there may be a gap between the hair and the body.
4. You’ve accidentally uploaded the thumbnail of a head or body. This means you’ve accidentally saved a smaller, “preview” instead of the real file. If you right click over the head/body you want to upload on the site you’re getting it from, discord, etc, then click “open image in new tab,” right click again, “save image as”

1. A head/body you’ve uploaded exceeds our file size limit. Try removing/replacing some colours or, if it’s animated, removing some animation frames.
2. You’ve accidentally uploaded a converted JPEG.

1. You’ve uploaded an animation that is (or is around) 25 seconds. Please try making the FPS faster (a higher number) or removing frames from the animation (or both) to reduce the time your animation takes to play.

1. The head you’re uploading has a flashing animation/quick flash of colour.
2. The head you’re uploading has changing colours. NOTE: this does not mean that the animation is rapidly flashing. We also do not allow heads which change colours or designs.
3. You’ve uploaded a head that has eyes which change colour, but there is no transition between the changing colours.
4. The head you’re uploading is animated and was not exported correctly from your program/the site you downloaded it from and has become corrupted. Try re-exporting it.

1. There are pixels which have flooded out of their own frame and into a frame where they are not supposed to be, creating an out of place line or pixels. Compare the head/body to it’s appropriate template and erase any pixels which have overlapped into frames where they’re not supposed to be.
2. A head or body is animated to turn the direction they’re looking in without the player having to move
3. The upload has frames which do not match eachother in colour, style, or design. All frames must be consistent and match eachother. EX: the front-facing idle frame on a head has pink hair and blue eyes, but all other frames of the head have black hair and green eyes.
4. A head or body is facing incorrect directions (only ¾ static frames are acceptable.)
5. The frames on the upload are flipped around or backwards, otherwise facing the wrong direction.
6. You’ve uploaded a head which doesn’t fit onto the default body correctly, or there are large gaps between the default body and the head.
7. Nonhuman and object head uploads must have two appropriately placed eyes on most frames.

1. There are frames or sprites which are invisible or blank. NOTE: Certain frames on swords are allowed to be excluded.
2. Nonhuman and object head uploads must have two appropriately placed eyes on most frames.

1. You’ve uploaded something which is a direct rip from another pixel art game.
2. You’ve uploaded something which has a design or logo that is owned by somebody else; EX: Brand such as Nikeor Gucci, or TV shows such as Naruto or Batman.
3. You’ve uploaded something which resembles a copyrighted character too closely to source material; EX: Spongebob, Sonic the hedgehog, Naruto. NOTE: Characters which are based off of copyrighted characters but look like a “Graal version/Graalified” or look like they were only “inspired by” the source material and are not supposed to be copies are allowed.
4. You’ve uploaded a staff member’s custom(s.)

1. You’ve submitted something multiple times and are now spamming the uploader. Please try to upload the correct version of an item the first time, and use Dusty’s Upload Tester to test how uploads will look in-game.
2. You’ve uploaded something multiple times and it has been denied every time because you are not fixing the issue it is being denied for. Please do not resubmit the upload, it will continue to be denied.

A: It’s possible that the uploading rules have changed since your friend uploaded the head. Regardless, please report your friend for the head they’re wearing and we will investigate.

A: “game-breaking” is an umbrella term which means many things, mostly that your upload breaks critical functions of the game. A body with 4 legs may not be able to use a sword, for example. Anything which hinders the use of hats, accessories, swords, pushing, pulling, walking, or obstructs which direction you’re looking in, etc, is considered game-breaking and cannot be uploaded.

A: Default heads are not uploads and do not have to adhere to the upload rules.

A: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A: It means the art style of the uploads match the art style of Graal, not the original source.

A: Please reach out to an available staff member for help! This document will be updated to reflect any missing or changed rules; Talking with us about your upload can help us make clearer and more refined rules for the future.

A: Yes! Please contact a staff member about this and we will remove or replace it.

A: Corruption is random and difficult to fix, but you may be able to fix it by downloading a new version of the file you’re trying to upload.