ARK Survival Game Rules

Admins always have the last call/say. They can choose whether a situation is or is not a breach of the rules, even if it is not written in the rules. Punishments can include permanent ban, wipe ban, in-game wipe of dinos/structures, or other punishment.

Respect all admins and their decisions. Talking back can result in a ban or permanent ban in Discord or in game.

Do not inflict any form of misconduct. Do not try to force dictatorship, create toxicity, or ruin the game experience for any player. This includes, but is not limited to, harmful, unlawful, threatening, abusive, and other bad language.

No racist remarks in any language on our PVE servers. Refrain from cussing when possible. Young kids do play the game.

No hacking or exploiting the game, including duping, meshing, or similar abuse.

Insiding is part of the survival game and deception. Tribes are responsible for their members. Tribe leaders are responsible for all members invited to the tribe. If you do not trust the player, do not invite them. Set tribe permissions to help prevent these situations.

Scamming when trading is allowed. To avoid scams, use the /trade or /trader system on the same map so both players can see the items being traded and confirm or deny the trade.

You are intended to have the same tribe members across other maps of the network, and your tribe name must be the same across all maps.

You are expected to use intended game mechanics and play legitimately. Using bugs or glitches to do things is not permitted in any way.

Boxed-in dinos are not allowed. Boxed-in players on a dino are allowed.

All placed structures must be visible and able to be damaged in an intended way. Intended means building in ways the game was designed for. Undermeshing structures are not allowed.

You may not build in knock-out, pelagornis, dino/chair, zipline spots, or any other place that cannot be entered by legal means such as tek punch or running. Glitching into any spot is illegal. You must be able to normally walk, run, or swim into the spot.

Flying structures are not allowed, such as floating chandeliers. The only exception is hatch frames attached to vacuum compartments, as that is unavoidable.

Structure spam cannot go farther than 50 foundations away from the base or turret tower. Some situations may still be allowed depending on the base location.

No excessive spam such as dino gates, pillars, walls, or similar structures.

Pick up any dino traps used for taming once you are done. Excessive trash traps left behind can lead to punishment.

No random foundations where there is no base. This also includes, but is not limited to, random turrets. TP turrets for protection are fine.

Each tribe can only have one main base per map. An additional tek underwater base used only for breeding is allowed, but no loot may be stored in the breeding base.

If your main base is underwater, you are still allowed to have one other underwater area for breeding.

Cave building is allowed with exceptions.

Building in caves with artifacts is not allowed. Blocking caves with artifacts will result in a full admin wipe of all structures and dinos in that cave with no warnings. Report tribes blocking artifact caves to admins.

All caves with world drops are allowed to be built in.

No building on world terminals or obelisks. This can result in a developer wipe with no warning.

Server crashes are rare, but in the event of a crash or server rollback, dinos, items, or points that were lost will not be given back. OG servers are built so players can regain things fast.

In some situations, Tron or admins may give all players collateral in points to help everyone recover from the situation.

In certain situations, Tron or admins may help get certain items back to a player.

Do not leave dinos on aggressive unless they are on a leash or inside base borders/dino gates.