Rules

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 player name. 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.
  • 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.

ARK rules: Building and structures

See rule 32 for building restrictions specific to Genesis 2.

1. One base per map (per tribe). No excessively large builds – must be within render size and not lag out other players or cause significant FPS drops once rendered. Land/buildings must be utilised, not just empty claim spaces.

2. No unattended structures or dinos beyond your base (your base allows upto 20 foundations beyond an outer wall). Leaving a dino or sleeping bag for a short time while you do a cave/etc. is fine – remove quickly afterwards. Oil pumps/water veins/gas veins are allowed but must be unlocked and accessible.

3. Leave max render distance between bases. Very small outposts and temporary starter shacks can be within render but must not impede the neighbour base’s ability to build or expand.

4. Do not block core game resources or mechanics e.g. key resources, access routes, beaches, waterways, player spawn locations, beaver dams, drops, artifacts, explorer notes, mission terminal/routes, obelisks etc.

5. If you build on a player spawn point, remove the foundations from the actual spawn location and make sure there is an unlocked door with a sign – make sure there is an obvious way out.

6. Charge nodes, gas veins, water veins, oil veins, plant species Z, sap taps and city terminals must be unlocked and accessible. Sap Taps may have a platform with no other structures (power for tek taps is okay). Sap taps that are on a tree where you have your base do not need to be unlocked.

7. Don’t build long water pipes – the S+ intake can be placed anywhere, or use the bucket and sink from eco’s RP Decor mod.

8. Do not put a shield around a teleporter (private or public).

9. Don’t reserve construction sites – no foundation/structure spam.

10. Any turrets that reach beyond base walls must be set to short range and only target hostile dinos below level 135. Do not use vanilla Plant Species X turrets. Convert the seed to S+ first and set targeting.

ARK rules: General rules and guidance for all players

11. If you take a break from the game, you may login just to refresh your base a maximum of 3 times. After 3 timer resets, the base must be (or will be) removed to make the space available for currently active players. If you are planning to come back, you should store your most valuable dinos/items in a locker on the market map, or ask Phokxx to store them.

12. 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.

13. Maximum of 2 Gachas per tribe, per map. Gacha breeding is allowed, but adults must not be left out (picked up quickly when grown.

14. Whoever reaches the exact location of a tame or loot drop first, claims it. If you arrive at the exact spot and find your target, but then move about to clear hostiles… speak in chat to let folk know you’ve found/claim it. Do not falsely ‘claim’ the dino/drop before you have reached the exact location and found it.

15. Don’t harvest from the same cluster of nodes as someone who is already there.

16. Don’t kill tameable Shiny Dinos. Only Alphas and Enraged Shiny’s and non-tameable Shinies (e.g. Enforcers, untameable Reapers etc.) are allowed to be killed.

17. Empty the wood out of beaver dams and junk from drops, and don’t drop unwanted Wyvern/Rock Drake/Deinonychus eggs… eat them instead!

18. No breeding Meks / Exo-Meks / Skiffs or Tek Stryders.

19. Aim to have no more than 2,000 souls on any one map… don’t store old breed generations that are no longer needed or have excessive passive generators. Once you hit 1,500+, start looking at your stock and see if you’re hoarding. Use the Soul Finder to check how many you have.

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

ARK rules: Dinos allowed on maps

21. Aberration: The following list of dinos/creatures are allowed on Aberration, including all their natural variants (e.g. Tek, X-, R-). All other dinos not listed, including other mechanical creatures and vehicles, are not allowed on Aberration. Don’t bring them.

22. Extinction: Wyverns and Titanosaurs are not allowed on Extinction. Don’t bring them. Voidwyrms are allowed.

23. All other maps: No other restrictions.

ARK rules: Collaboration and trading

Please note additional restrictions for players under level 107 – rules 28/29/30 below.

24. Do not place unlocked freebie boxes or public crafting stations. Help players directly instead.

24½. All entrants in a collaborative cave or boss fight must ride their own dino, provide their own gear, and contribute fully to the event. Collaborators should agree who takes the boss head/Titan head before the fight begins, no subsequent trading.

25. You can trade Tek items, or craft Tek-items for others, for the full material cost, as long as it is not listed on the exclusion or auction-only list (see 26 and 27 below) No gifting Tek.

26. Do not sell, trade, craft or gift any dinos over level 450 or with over 100 points in any one stat, Tek Stryders, Tek suits, Tek saddles or Hover Skiffs. These must only be traded at the monthly auction.

27. Titan Heads, S+ Tek Fridges, S+ Tek Stoves, S+ Tek Forges, Exo Meks and Fenrir Wolves should not be sold, traded or gifted.

Collaboration and trading – players under level 107

The following additional restrictions apply when trading or collaborating with any player who is below level 107.

28. No selling, gifting, trading, breeding or cloning dinos above level 350 or with more than 60 points in any one stat.

29. No selling, gifting, trading or crafting ascendant items.

30. No selling, trading, gifting or crafting of Tek items.

ARK rules: Alt accounts

31. Alt accounts are permitted provided:

  • it is within your existing tribe and obeys all tribe and player rules (single tribe base per map etc). In-tribe alts must remain in base.

or

  • It is outside of your existing tribe for alternative playthroughs, and shares no benefit back to the existing tribe. Collaborative play is permitted, but the existing tribe and/or your existing character must gain no benefit from your out-of-tribe alt player account.
  • Alt accounts are excluded from vote rewards, patron rewards, events, quests and auctions.
  • Alt accounts must not be used to exploit or bypass rules (e.g. out of base structures/dinos).

ARK rules: Genesis 2 specific rules

32. Genesis 2 is reserved for map gameplay content only – taming, harvesting, note collection, missions and bosses. No bases.

Players will be allowed one very small outpost for the purposes of enabling the gameplay – maximum size:

  • one platform with shield (no walls).
  • or one foundation build max 100 foundations total area and max 4 walls high (or 1x S+ “large” wall) (plus roof).
  • or one eco’s mushroom hut with external non-build structures (tp/generator/transmitter/etc.) within an area of 100 foundations total size.

Shields on foundation or mushroom structures must not exceed 10×10. No building on bridges or in air-locks.

Minimal internal structures “within reason” for gameplay – such as beds/tp/generator/transmitter/basic storage/etc/etc… but not breeding, mass storage, mass processing.

Outposts can be pretty, some decor is okay but keep it small and simple.

ARK rules: Age restrictions

  • Players over age 18 permitted.
  • Players aged 14-18 must not by identifiable as young – don’t do anything to show your age – this includes chat, behaviour, demeanour and conduct.
  • Players aged 13 and under are not allowed unless accompanied by a parent / legal guardian.

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, Eldyo, jdab, Mark_Bodger, MegaZ, Mouse, ohhilaura, Phokxx, Soul, Vendy

Conan Admins: Angel, Lumin, Phokxx, Salina

DayZ Admins: Eldyo, jdab, JR, Lumin, MegaZ, Mouse, Phokxx

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 @Admin in the Ark-General or Conan-General 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.