RULES

1.1 Be respectful

You must respect all users, regardless of your liking towards them. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Keep all of your trash talk in the trash-talk channel. Do not inflict any form of misconduct such as attempts at dictatorship or blackmail. Stay away from language that is harmful, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, homophobic, racist, sexually explicit, or ethnically offensive. Encouragement of self harm will also not be tolerated. Yes, this is PVP, and yes ARK gets toxic at times, but if situations get out of hand and start discouraging people from playing on the cluster, the situation will be reviewed and dealt with accordingly. Keep your trash talk in the proper channels and game-oriented.

1.2 Absolutely no racism or sexism

Any racism, sexism, or slurs will not be tolerated and will be met with an immediate ban. And if you have any doubt, just don’t.

1.3 No pornographic/adult/other NSFW material

This is a community server and not meant to share this kind of material.

1.4 No spamming

Don’t send a lot of small messages right after each other. Do not disrupt chat by spamming.

1.5 No advertisements

We do not tolerate any kind of advertisements, whether it be for other communities or streams. You can post your content in the self-promote as long as it is relevant.

1.6 No staff disrespect/accusations

The staff work very hard to bring you the best server and gaming experience. All staff members are selected VERY carefully, and will stay abuse and prejudice free, and will always be completely impartial. 

1.7 Direct & Indirect Threats

Threats to other users of DDoS, Death, DoX, abuse, and other malicious threats are absolutely prohibited.

1.8 No Accusations

No accusations of cheating, hacking, or any rule breaking on any public forum such as global chat or public discord chats. If you believe someone is breaking rules, cheating, or hacking, submit-ticket with DEFINITIVE PROOF.

1.9 English Only in Public

When speaking in public channels/global chats, please keep the conversation to English only.

DISCORD RULES
2.1 No offensive names and profile pictures

You will be asked to change your name or picture if the staff deems them inappropriate.

2.2 Follow the Discord Community Guidelines

You can find them here: https://discordapp.com/guidelines

IN-GAME RULES

3.1 Follow the ark Code of Conduct (small tribes rules apply)

https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/220278968-Code-of-Conduct

3.2 No hacking, scripting, macroing, cheating, duping or 3rd party programs

Two exceptions are: auto clicker, and 3rd party cross hairs.

3.3 Always use legitimate characters as character, tribe, and dino names

Do not use any symbols not found in the English alphabet. Some names that are prohibited include: Human, Survivor, Admin, GM, Player, 123, 321, OneTwoThree, □□□ or anything similar.

3.4 No Insiding

Insiding is strictly forbidden. Be thoughtful when choosing a tribe leader as you may not leave a tribe and take items without tribe leader’s consent. You may not disable defences to allow entry/raid opportunity to another tribe. You may not cause destruction or harm from within the tribe. Tribe leader has full control of tribe.

3.5 No Popcorning/Despawning

Do not popcorn/despawn/destroy/demolish during raid, especially when facing imminent base destruction. Preventing tribes from any deserved loot is forbidden.

3.6 No Teaming
Tribes are not allowed to team in any PVP scenario. This includes but is not limited to; joint raids, simultaneously defending a tribe from another tribe’s attacks, coordinated attacks, leaving a tribe to help another tribe, and more. Trading or public teleporting is also prohibited during raid scenarios.

3.7 Open World Third Party Rule

You are allowed to third+ party open world as long as you are actively fighting against ALL involved tribes evenly. If you are reported and the tribe log paints a clear picture of teaming, punishment may occur.

3.8 Raids Third Party Rule

You are not allowed to counter raids. All raids must be 1 tribe vs 1 tribe. Any attempt to grief or counter an attacking tribe while a raid is active will be considered teaming. You are allowed to watch without interfering and you are allowed to attack the attackers’ other bases. If there is PVP around someone’s base, do not interfere.
*Note: If a fob is inactive (not rendered) for longer than 8 hours, it is no longer an active raid and can be wiped.

*Note: The only way to enforce this rule correctly is to submit recording of the third partying tribe. So if you want to be 100% safe, record your raids. 

3.9 PVE Teaming Rule

PVE is considered Boss fights, missions, reaper impregnating, and PVE teaming IS allowed. If you are actively PVE teaming with other tribes and a 3rd party occurs, you are allowed to team and defend yourselves together.

3.10 No Dino Stacking

You are not allowed to stack multiple dinos within their own hitbox or small area.

3.11 No C4 capping

Do not place excessive quantities of C4 to prevent enemy C4 from being placed. Place yours, and blow it timely.

3.12 No account sharing or family sharing

3.13 No real money trading for in-game items

3.14 Caging/Prisoner rules

In raid scenario – 1 hour limit starting when player goes unconscious, out of raid – 30 minute limit starting when player goes unconscious

3.15 No scamming

There will be no trade mediation, so trade at your own risk. However, scamming is still against server rules, so it is recommended you record all your trades to protect yourself from the scam. Submit a ticket, and the admins will punish the scammer and do their best to return scammed items to you.

3.16 No ORP on FOBs

You are not allowed to put ORPs on any fobs that are in render distance of any of the target’s structures. You ARE allowed to put an ORP on a main fob IF it you don’t render ANY of the target’s structures, spam included. 

3.17 No Raid Logging on Server Restart/Crash

The server will restart every day at 6:00AM EST. If you are in an active raid, you may not stay logged out after server restart to activate your ORP. The defending tribe will have 15 minutes to log back in after server restart or crash.

3.18 No PVP-Timer Refreshing
You may not keep a tribe’s ORP on cooldown without active pvp. You must actively be raiding or griefing, and trying to progress in PVP. Tagging a dino/structure to keep a tribe on PVP timer is strictly forbidden. If someone does it to you, please record and submit ticket.

3.19 NPP/Raid Protection Rules
You MAY NOT grief players who have New Player Protection active. Griefing consists of but is not limited to; using building tricks to mess with new players, sniping new players outside of their base, killing new players’ tames at their base, not allowing new players to come outside of their base, placing turrets by their base, etc. Open world is always fair game.
NOTE: Players under NPP, it is YOUR responsibility to let the griefers know you have NPP and ask them to leave. If it happens to you, please submit a ticket with proof (recording/screenshots).
IMPORTANT: 
– For NPP/RP ORP MUST be placed to activate.
– NPP/Raid Protected players MAY NOT tame titans and keep them inside ORP.
– NPP/Raid Protected players MAY NOT attempt to raid/pvp at other’s bases. it is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

3.20 Player/Tribe Rules
Each tribe may only have 6 players.

Each player may only belong to 1 tribe across all the maps.

Absolutely no account sharing allowed.

3.21 No Impersonating
No impersonating Admins, Staff team, other players, other tribes, or raid protected tribes. You cannot have a name too similar to any player or tribe, and you may not name yourself anything similar to [Raid Protected]. 

3.22 No Disallowed Dinos on Aberration
Any tribe caught using dinos on aberration that are usually disallowed on ab will be punished with a full map dino wipe without warning. It is a very rare bug that will immediately be punished if abused. If you see any non-aberration dinos, please report them immediately.

3.23 Merged Tribe Break-Up Rules
When a tribe decides to break up, the tribe leader must ALWAYS give the previously merged tribe enough time to take ALL of their previously owned dinos, items, and structures. If there is ANY confusion or mediation is needed when merged tribes decide to split, please contact an admin. If a leader simply kicks all the merged players without giving the players the fair time or deserved loot, it MAY be considered scamming.

3.24 NO Titans in ORP
If you tame any titan, you MAY NOT put them inside an ORP. That includes Extinction Titans as well as Titanosaur.

3.25 No Mesh Biting or Hitting
No biting through mesh with dinos, or hitting through mesh with meks or titans. 

BUILDING RULES

4.1 Three Limited Spots Per Tribe
Limited spot list can be found below. Alpha of the cluster is the only exception to this rule, and is allowed to have 4 limited locations. Upon raiding a limited location, you are allowed to attempt to sell the spot for the next 48 hours. After 48 hours, you have to pick up your fob and all structures around the Limited Spot.

4.2 No meshing/mesh building

You are not allowed to have any structures inside of the mesh or in any areas where building isn’t intended. A part of the structure must ALWAYS be visible. You are not allowed to enter unintended game world areas via any mesh method.

4.3 No building in spawn points, nests, wyvern scars, mission zones, or banned locations

You may find the list of banned locations below. Do not build at any spawns, dino egg nests, mission zones, gen 2 mission areas or banned locations, UNLESS actively farming or utilizing the location for PVP. Any structures found on these points will be removed without warning and may lead to punishment. Please make sure you pick up after yourself.
Note: Building at gen 2 terminals OR mission zones is strictly prohibited.

4.4 No blocking characters with structures

You cannot place structures on top of you or another player, making the character model completely concealed, immobilized, or invulnerable. This rule does NOT apply to dinos.

4.5 No illegal racers, quetzals, or other illegally built platform dinos or skiffs

You may not completely conceal your dino with platform structures to stop them from getting shot by turrets from more than 2 sides. Hatchframe dinos are still allowed.

4.6 Rat Hole Rules

No building in locations where a player is required to KO, use a chair, use a dino, use a zipline, or anything along those lines to enter. Simply put, if you can’t walk or swim into a spot, don’t build there. If there is any doubt about a spot, please submit a ticket and ask before building.

4.7 No Team Building

You may not build bases close enough to other tribes where you provide mutual defenses to one another. An example would be building in the same cave, or having both tribes’ turrets covering the others.

4.8 Spam Rules
IMPORTANT: For a base you need a minimum of 26 structure (not counting ORP structure). Then you have a normal decay of 16 days. Anything less than 26 buildings in a radius of 10 foundations will decay more quickly.Fast decay = 2 days

Turret towers can extend spam by 20 ground foundations , this way several can be placed
This way we can keep our servers clean, and avoid as much lag as possible by cleaning up

4.9 NO ORP Without Full Base

You are NOT allowed to ORP base locations unless you are ACTUALLY actively building a base. A base must have turrets, crafting stations, all the essentials, as they are easily available even to new players. You are not allowed to simply GATE off locations, put an ORP down, and log off. Holding a spot without an actual base will result in the location being dev wiped without warning.

LIMITED BASE LOCATIONS

The Island
– Easy Underwater
– Hard Underwater
– Ice Cave
– Carno Cave
–  Large Pearl Caves (50,11|10,21.6|36.3,91|90.6,71.3)

The Center
– North Ice Cave (18.7, 29.6)
– Pearl Cave (15.7, 50.4)
– Lava Cave (16.1, 62.2)
– Underwater Rat Hole (0, 30) 
– Underwater Bubble (66.1, 64.6)

Scorched Earth
– Central Cave
– Church Cave
– Blue Ob Cave

Ragnarok
– Mushroom Cave (10.4, 23.7)
– Desert Crack (68.5, 61.2)

Aberration
– Shadow Cave
– Glowtail Cave
– Alpha Tree
– Red Surface Entrance

Extinction
– Alpha Tree (27, 2 Ceiling)
– Skylight (31.6, 8.8 Ceiling)
– Wasteland Cave (22.4, 42)
– Red Light Plat (4, 38.4)
– King Titan Plat (-5, 45.5)

Valguero
– Oil Cave (49, 19.7)
– Spider Cave (73.1, 40.7)
– Skylight (26.3, 92.6)
– ALL Aberration Zone Trees

Genesis
– Big Lunar Cave (26.3,36.1)
– Triple Lunar Cave (21.7,25.9 | 24.7,26)
– Double Lunar Cave (40, 29 | 36, 24)
– Single Lunar Cave (52.4,13.2)
– Under Lunar (25.5,11.5)
– Corner Pillar (13.8,61.9)
– ALL Asteroids

Crystal Isles

– Baboon Tree (40.6, 73.7)
– Underwater Rat Hole (10.7, 61.6)

Gen 2
– Water Cube (44.4, 68.6)
– Space Needle (45.7, 75.4)
– 90/90 Plat (80.4, 91.6)
– Double Plat (18.4, 70,7)
– Goblin Plat (40.2, 41.9)

Lost Island
– Jungle Crouch Cave (60.5, 45.7)
– Gloom Cave (65.3, 62)
– Underwater Cave (49.1,23.5)
– Underwater Cave (83.3, 30.9)
– Hildan Cavity Cave (30.8, 30.9)
– Shoola Hollow Cave (27.2, 41.2)

Fjordur
– Puzzle Cave (71.8, 2.2)
– Swamp Cave (49.4, 14.4)
– Ice Cave (7.8, 23.5)
– Bee Cave (10.2, 84.5)
– Pirate Ship Cave (76.8, 66.7)
– Time Cave (86.2, 98)
– Aberration Cave (86.8, 12.8)
– Underwater Pearl Caves (45.3, 41.5 | 91.7, 41.6 | 51.4, 44.5)

BANNED LOCATIONS

The Island
– Red Obelisk
– Blue Obelisk
– Green Obelisk
– Volcano Tek Terminal
– Swamp Cave

The Center
– Green Obelisk
– Blue Obelisk
– Red Obelisk

Scorched Earth
Red Obelisk
Blue Obelisk
Green Obelisk

Ragnarok
– Green Obelisk
– Blue Obelisk
– Red Obelisk
– Spire Underwater Rat Holes (5.8, 59.6 | 7, 61.3)

Aberration
– Portal Surface Entrance
– Fertile Surface Entrance
– Anywhere in or above the Surface

Extinction

– Grapple Rat Hole (50.4, 47.6)
– Desert Titan Cave (87.3, 70.4)
– Ice Titan Cave (20.2, 61.5)
– Forest Titan Cave (11.7, 30.1)
– No Building Near Terminals (35 Foundation Radius)

Genesis
– Bog Tree Rathole (74.4, 76.3)
– Diplo Underwater Rathole (29.4, 57.5)

Crystal Isles

– Bee/Honey Cave (Entrances 31.9, 32 | 30.8, 30.5)

– Underwater Loot Cave (Entrance 28.1, 55 | 31.2, 48.7)

– Blue Obelisk (25.6, 56.7)

– Red Obelisk (63.7, 58.6)

– Green Obelisk (51.4, 25.4)

– Silica Pearl Underwater Farm (26.5, 13.1)

Gen 2

– Main Cross Bridges

– Mission Terminals

– Teksuit Rathole (76.7, 6.3)

– Peligornis Rathole (46.3, 57.4)

Lost Island

– Green Obelisk

– Blue Obelisk

– Red Obelisk

Fjordur
– Dragon Terminal Cave (Entrance 86.2, 5.2)
– Brood Terminal Cave (Entrance 57.3, 65.8)
– Megapithecus Terminal Cave (Entrance 56.8, 84.8)
– Beyla Terminal Cave (Entrance 4.5, 47.3)
– Hati & Skol Terminal (20.5, 37.1)
– Steinbjorn Terminal Cave (Entrance 77.7, 30.8)
– Green Obelisk (17.7, 80.8)
– Red Obelisk (79.3, 96.3)
– Blue Obelisk (74.6, 7.5)
– Asguard Obelisk (26.5, 27.7)
– Vannaheim Obelisk (14.3, 79.4)
– Jotenheim Obelisk (87.7, 26.4)
– Lightning Wyvern Scar (29.9, 8.2)
– Poison Wyvern Scar (11.7, 64.5)
– Ice Wyvern Scar (64.5, 32.6)
– Fire Wyvern Scar (94.1, 75.4)
– Volcano Element Cave (Entrance 95.8, 80.6)
– Portal Room Cave (Entrance 40.2, 57.8)    
– Poison Wyvern Scar Rat Hole (5.4, 63.8)
– Rock Drake Cave (Entrance 42.1, 49.2)

Lost Island

– Valley of the Sun Cave

– Spider Cave

– Mini Desert Cave

– Udal Jungle CaveAnything less than 26 buildings in a radius of 10 foundations will decay more quickly.