Rules

Please read and understand the server rules. If you have any questions, please ask in Discord.

Our rules are each designed to ensure fairness and responsibility to each other’s gameplay, protect progression/longevity and keep server performance.

Thankyou for being part of The Friendly Server Community

Zero tolerance rules

  • No racism, nazi content, homophobia, sexual harrassment or hate content. No racist/homophobic jokes. No threats. Including chat, painting, tribe name, dino name or playername. This also includes private messages.
  • No PvP behaviour, theft or griefing activities – nothing that will harm a player, tamed dino or base. Taking without permission – including unhatched eggs, unclaimed babies bred by others, the contents of unlocked structures, or contents of death/cache bags – is theft (even if you think the player is inactive)
  • No hacks, cheating, exploiting bugs.
  • No advertising other servers
  • Keep public chat friendly. No arguments in open chat. No insults or radical/extreme expressions (even jokingly between friends). No passive aggressive comments. No trolling. No drama.
  • Speak English in public chat.

Age restrictions

  • Players over age 18 are welcome

Ark (Evolved & Ascended)

  • Ark Players aged 15-18 may join modded maps, provided they are not identifiable as young – don’t do anything to show your age – this includes chat, behaviour, demeanour and conduct.
  • If you are under 18 and your behaviour indicates that you may be young but you haven’t given your age away, on modded ark only, you may be given advice and a second chance, subject to admin discretion.
  • If you are under 18 and give your age out to anyone, or talk in voice, you will be banned immediately.
  • Due to the higher number of immature players drawn to unmodded, if your behaviour on unmodded makes us question your age, you will be banned unless you can prove that you are over 18.
  • Players aged 14 and under are not allowed unless accompanied by a parent / legal guardian

Conan

  • Players under age 18 are not allowed.

[1] ARK rules: Bases and structures

Distance Between Bases

  • In Ark Evolved, your base should be epic-render distance from any other base (no other base structure should be visible when your render distance is set to epic).
  • In Ark Ascended, bases must be at least 250metres apart (from edge of boundaries) (check using tame tracker or map markers)
  • temporary starter shacks and tiny outposts upto 4×6 foundations can be closer provided they do not impede the main base (no closer than 100metres on Ascended)

Base Size

  • In Ark Evolved, your base should be less than render-distance across and should not cause FPS drops/lag.
  • In Ark Ascended, Maximum base size: 200 x 100 metres. No more than half of that space to be covered with foundations / buildings.

Genesis2

  • No bases on Genesis 2. Small outpost only (maximum 1x platform no walls, or a 10×10 foundation size base, max 4 walls high plus roof, or 1x Mushroom hut with any external structures within a 10×10 area) Shields must not exceed 10×10.
  • No building on the bridges, in air-locks, or in space.

Other Base / Structure Rules

  • One base per map (per tribe). No other structures to be left anywhere on the map.
  • You should not block key resources, beaver dams, artifacts, explorer notes, core game mechanics, access paths, full-width beaches or player spawn points.
  • Don’t run long pipes to water.
  • Do not put a shield over any teleport or supply drop.
  • If you have turrets, set them to only target hostile dino’s under level 135.
  • Oil pumps, gas veins, water veins, charge nodes, plant species Z, sap taps and city terminals must be unlocked and accessible.
  • No foundation spam, torch spam, or site reservation.
  • Mobile bases (platforms / rafts) must be parked at a permanent land base. Only small buildings on Oasisaurs

[2] Decaying Bases & Claimable Dinos

Do not claim dinos, structures or remove any items from decaying bases… do not demolish structures and take inventories, or claim dinos.

[3] Tribes & Alt Accounts

You can be tribed with one group of people on as many maps as you like, and can be solo on some or all maps, but you should not be tribed with different groups of people on different maps.

You can have an Alt Account inside your existing tribe. Alt accounts must not be used to exploit or bypass rules.

[4] Dinos & Souls

No unattended/wandering dino’s to be left outside your base.

  • Shiny Dinos: Do not kill shiny dino’s (except enraged and untameables).
  • Aberration: There are limits on the dino’s allowed on Aberration – see list below. Mod creatures which naturally have an “Aberrant” variant are allowed on Aberration (including their non-aberrant variations)
  • Extinction Wyverns and titanosaurs aren’t allowed on Extinction (voidwyrms are ok).
  • Taming: whoever reaches a tame first has taming rights – check for others and speak up in chat to check. Do not call dibs on a tame unless your are there and ready to tame it.
  • Other: Max 2 gacha’s per tribe, per map. Keep your soul-balls to under 2000 per map. No breeding Titans (Bosses), Mek’s / Exo-Meks / Skiffs or Stryders

[5] Genesis 2

  • No breeding, mass harvesting (except asteroids), passive generation or resource storage on Genesis 2.
  • See also base restrictions in [1] above.

[6] Taking-a-break

  • You can “timer refresh” your base for upto 3 months. After that, you must release your base location.
  • Use a long-term storage locker on the market map to store your most valuable items/dinos.

[7] Don’t Cause Lag

  • Do not do anything that causes high lag or significant local FPS drops. This includes excessively large builds, too many large dinos, large resource pulls, excessive automation, etc

[8] Collaboration & Trading between players that are both over level 107

  • When collaborating on boss fights / cave runs – all entrants must ride their own dino, provide their own gear and actively participate in the event.
  • You can sell, trade or gift dino’s as long as they are under level 450 and every stat is under 101 points.
  • You can craft tek-items for the material cost – except for auction-only or no-trade items. No gifting tek.

[9] Collaboration & Trading where either player is under level 107

  • You can sell, gift, trade, collaboratively breed or clone any dino that is under level 351 and has less than 60 points in any one stat, and any non-tek item that is mastercraft or below.
  • Dino’s over level 350, or with any stat over 60 points, Ascendant items and tek items must not be traded with players under level 107.
  • No unlocked freebie boxes or public crafting stations.

[10] Auction Only & No Trade Items

The following must only be traded at Auction:

Tek stryders, tek suits, tek saddles, tek skiffs and dino’s over level 450 or with over 100 points in any stat can be traded at auction only

The following must never be traded:

Tek Fridges, Tek Stoves, Tek Forges, Exo Meks, Titan heads and Fenrir Wolves should not be sold, trade or gifted.

Conan rules: The basics

THRALLS, PURGES & BOSSES

  • Don’t repeat-camp / timer-run key thralls and bosses, denying the spawns to others
  • Don’t interfere with another person’s purge unless asked

RESOURCE GATHERING

  • Don’t harvest the same cluster of nodes as someone who is already harvesting

BUILDING

  • Size limitations for bases
  • Don’t block key resource spawning or access to key gameplay features
  • Don’t build too close to another base

These rules are all detailed below.

Please ensure you read the rules carefully and understand them.

Conan rules: Detailed

HARVESTING

  • When harvesting materials, don’t harvest the same cluster of nodes as someone who is already harvesting
  • Empty the junk out of resource boxes!

THRALLS, BOSSES & PURGES

  • Don’t repeat-camp/timer run key thralls or bosses, denying the spawns to others. Be reasonable
  • Don’t join another person’s purge without asking first / or being asked. Ask whether it’s knock-out or kill, and don’t take the knock-outs without checking first. Be a friendly – don’t join purges to steal thralls

BASES, BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES

NOTE: it is your responsibility to check that your build-site abides by these rules. Check online resource maps, do the missions, check single player, etc. Don’t just ask an admin.

BLOCKING

  • No blocking spawning or access to key resources / gameplay features (eg metal, brimstone, silver etc), or dungeons, thrall camps, loot boxes, bosses or key named thralls.
  • No blocking access to obelisks or their public map tables
  • Don’t block main access routes, rivers/bridges/dungeons etc, or beaches. Leave a way around.

THE STARTER AREA

  • No permanent settlements to be built in the starter desert area upto the river – A1 to I4. This area to be kept for starter builds only. Max stay six weeks.

WHERE NOT TO BUILD

  • No building around the transport obelisks
  • No building in volcano region
  • No building in the vicinity of the Ymir spawn points / Ymir temples.

PILLAR SPAM

  • No pillar or foundation spamming. Find a place and build on it.

HOW BIG CAN MY BASE BE?

A base size isn’t measured in ‘foundations across’. It is measured in how it impacts the server and other members.

  • Your main base should be an actively used space – big enough for your needs without holding large tracts of empty space/land. This includes wide boundary walls and huge empty boxes.
  • You should be able to see the whole of your base in one go.. if you cannot see your boundary wall from the other side on high render, then you’ve gone way way too far.
  • Your main base should not cause a significant fps drop for other members. When building, use “stat fps” to check how much fps drop you’re getting. Check the different between looking away from your base, and looking at it
  • Don’t enclose large land spaces that you are not actually using.

HOW MANY BASES / LOCATIONS

  • One base only, no outpost structures.

OTHER

  • Do not pickup/collect decayed structures/contents/dropbags/etc. No looting.

Admin guide

Admins are long-standing members who have proven their trustworthiness, helpfulness and capability during their time here. They are chosen by Phokxx with advice from the existing team. We don’t accept applications. Asking for admin will mean you never get it.

Your admins are:

Server Owner: Phokxx

ARK Admins: backyardzoo, DiscoStu, Eldyo, jdab, Mark_Bodger, Kaladin, Lily, MegaZ, Mouse, ohhilaura, Phokxx, Radlin, Soul

Conan Admins: Lumin, Phokxx, Salina

Please remember that admins are players too, and people who have real lives. For fairness, please don’t PM an admin directly unless asked to – if you need an admin, use @AdminConan, @AdminArk or @AdminASA in the  Discord channels. This lets the most available admin respond.

Admin guidelines and code of conduct

  • Remember that you are a player too – give yourself playtime!
  • Be friendly in all communications. We don’t need to be aggressive to enforce rules where needed. If you are frustrated/annoyed, ask another team member for support.
  • PvP/griefing, advertising other servers and extreme hate speech/etc can be insta-banned.
  • For all other rule breaking – educate/advise first, warn next, ban as a last resort.
  • It is better for a player to understand a rule breech and take action themselves, than have an admin just soul their dino/remove their structure/etc. Educate/advise first. If the player is online, try local chat. If you know their Discord, send a PM. Otherwise leave enough signs to offer a proper explanation – not just a curt instruction. Don’t just quote the rules – explain the reason.
  • We will recover any soul ball or replace any armour, weapon or structure lost due to a server crash or rollback (but not dino/player inventory resources).
  • We do not replace or recover any item lost to gameplay errors, lag or bugs.
  • We do not use cheat codes for any gameplay issue, or spawn any item in for anyone outside of patron/voter rewards and event prizes.
  • For players who fall completely through the world mesh on server join, we will attempt to ghost and rescue, but not spawn replacements unless provided with a player inventory screenshot whilst under the mesh.
  • For dinos that fall completely through the world mesh, we will attempt to ghost and rescue, but will not recover or respawn if unsuccessful.
  • We will not attempt to recover any bugged skiffs. Skiffs are used at player risk.