📜 ARK:SE Weekend PvP Rules

Follow the ARK Code of Conduct. Small tribes rules apply.

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

No hacking, scripting, macroing, cheating, duping or third party programs.

Two exceptions are: auto clicker and third party crosshairs.

Always use legitimate player, tribe, and dino names. No impersonating.

Keep names clean and do not try to simulate an admin or staff member’s name. Use English only.

Be thoughtful on who the tribe leader is when you join a tribe. You may not leave a tribe and take items without the tribe leader's consent. Anything you bring to the tribe becomes property of the tribe.

You may not disable defences to allow entry or raid opportunity to another tribe. You may not cause destruction or harm from within the tribe. Tribe leader has full control of tribe.

Intentionally incinerating or preventing others from obtaining raid loot is prohibited.

Destroying a base from the inside when facing being wiped is not allowed. This only applies to inside of the main base.

A tribe can change and remove defences outside of their main choke point / defence area at will.

Tribes are not allowed to team in any PvP raid scenario. Any PvP is between the two tribes involved and any outside interference is considered teaming.

Attacking – the attacking tribe can’t have multiple FOBs or raids. They are only allowed to attack one tribe at a time. If they attack or FOB another tribe, the first raid is considered ended. Attacking tribes can have their base attacked even if they are raiding.

After the server switches to PvE you have 6 hours to remove all structures. Failure to do this will result in an admin auto-destroying the area and points being deducted from your alpha score.

Defending – once the defending tribe has been FOBbed, they are considered under attack on all of the other maps and can’t be FOBbed. They are responsible for alerting other attackers that they are under protection. If they decide to attack another tribe while under attack, all protection is removed and they are fair game. False claims of being FOBbed will result in punishment.

After a successful wipe, if the defender tribe has been completely wiped, they are entitled to a complete start over and NPP. This only applies if this is the tribe's only base and they have no other locations on any other map. Open a ticket in Discord for more info.

Placing a FOB on a base with the intent to stop others raiding is considered teaming. Logs will be checked and if links are found between tribes, both tribes will be punished.

PvE is considered bosses, missions, reaper impregnating, and PvE teaming is allowed.

If you are actively PvE teaming with other tribes and a third party occurs, you are allowed to team and defend yourselves together.

Players are prohibited from stacking multiple tames within their own hitbox.

Do not mass spam turrets, structures, or dinos into an area when attacking or to prevent raid progression. Use legitimate methods to counter opponents instead.

Replacing broken structures or pushing out spam in a fair fight is acceptable.

When using aggressive dinos as defence, do not use more than 15 in an area. AOE and turret dinos are exempt from the rule of 15 but should be used correctly and not to block an area.

No more than 15 dinos should be used to soak at any given time, raiding or defending.

A dino that is taking damage from a turret or is in turret range is considered active. Anything else outside of this is inactive.

Videos or screenshots are required as proof.

One C4 per dino. Nothing more is allowed. The plugin will ban players for breaking this rule.

No account sharing.

No real money trading for in-game items.

A player can be caged for 3 hours starting when the player goes unconscious. The timer continues regardless of whether or not the caged player is conscious or logged in.

Post in chat to keep track of time.

There will be no trade mediation, so trade at your own risk. Scamming is still against server rules, so we recommend you record all your trades to protect yourself from scams.

If you get scammed, submit a ticket with proof so admins can punish the scammer and do their best to return your items.

Each tribe is allowed one weekend of PvP protection per season. Protection consists of blocking the entrance of your base locations to prevent access. Anything outside of the protected base is not covered by PvP protection. The tribe must accept the loss if external structures are destroyed.

Tribes are not allowed to remove anything from the base after protection has been applied. We recommend using this protection after being wiped or nearly wiped, but it can be used at your discretion.

While you have protection you are not allowed to engage in any PvP, not even to defend. It is designed to give you downtime to recover, nothing more. Protection will not be added during a defence.

To request protection please open the correct ticket in Discord support tickets.

Each tribe may only have 4 players. Each player may only belong to 1 tribe across all maps. The tribe owner needs to be the same across all maps. Absolutely no account sharing allowed.

No biting through mesh with dinos, or hitting through mesh with meks or titans. This only applies to mounted tames.

Hacking or exploiting game mechanics to gain an unfair advantage over other players is not tolerated.

Hacking examples are not limited to but can include using third-party programs such as in-game automated bots, ESP, aimbots, and game engine modifications.

Exploiting examples are not limited to but can include:

- Attacking from, travelling through, or building in unintended game-zones, including under the mesh or above the map.
- Bypassing structure limits.
- Exploiting tek turrets to shoot player structures.
- Duplication of tames, items, or characters.
- C4 glitching, including pushing C4 through the map using a tame.
- Using dinos that are in the banned list and have accidentally been allowed.
- Pushing players through the terrain with dinosaurs or teleporting.
- Intentionally crashing users or servers, including DDoS or otherwise.
- Exploiting via desync or similar to gain access to other players' bases.

If a FOB is inactive for more than 4 hours you can counter it. Ask an admin to check before if you are unsure.

A tribe can take 2 Alpha locations across the whole cluster and one normal location on each of the remaining maps. You cannot have more than one base location on any of the maps.

Outposts for farming/breeding can have 20 turrets max and can be placed near farming areas or in water for water breeding. Any attempt to place one near a base and claim it is for farming/breeding will result in it being removed and possible admin action.

Do not place structures in any areas where building isn't intended, including mesh.

When building, you can clip items into walls as long as part of the structure is visible and can be destroyed.

When placing turrets on terrain you must make sure half of the turret is visible and it can be destroyed. It must not shoot through the mesh in any circumstances.

Turrets on structures should not clip into the mesh in any circumstance and should not be covered to prevent destruction.

Do not enter unintended game world areas via any mesh method and place structures or bases.

A structure cannot be invisible. Glass walls etc should always have the outer edge visible. Vacuum compartments must have one side visible and must be able to be destroyed.

No building in spawn points, nests, wyvern scars, mission zones, drop farms, explorer notes or banned locations.

You may find the list of banned locations in Discord.

Do not build at spawns, dino egg nests, mission zones, Gen 2 mission areas, explorer notes, or banned locations, unless actively farming or utilising the location for PvP.

This does not include explorer notes located in base locations, just the usual ones used for note runs.

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.

You cannot place structures on top of yourself or another player, making the character model completely concealed, immobilized, or invulnerable.

You may not completely conceal your dino with platform structures to stop them from getting shot. Spacewhale riders cannot be blocked.

You may not build bases close enough to other tribes where you provide mutual defences to one another.

An example would be building in the same cave, or having both tribes' turrets covering the other tribe.

Ratholes must allow entry via swimming, walking, tek suit gliding, or crouching.

Those needing grapple, teleportation, pela, ovis, campfire, tek suit punch etc are illegal and will be removed.

No excessive structure spamming across the map. Keep spam around your base and FOB within render distance. Carpet spam is not allowed.

Excessive spam may be removed, and repeated offences can lead to base wipes or bans.

Spam should only consist of generic normal items like foundations, pillars, cliff platforms and gates, and should consist of no more than two structures connected, for example Foundation + Foundation or Foundation + Pillar.

Spam must always be visible and able to take damage.

Tower and external defences can have spam protection limited to turret range and should not exceed this. The same rules from 4.9 apply for what should be used as spam.

Pre-FOBbing during PvE outside of someone's base is not allowed. You can build a raid base on the map in preparation, but nothing is to be placed outside of someone's base until PvP is turned on.

Pre-hiding teleporters in base locations is not allowed. If you put a teleporter in a location for drops or farming it has to be in an easily visible location.

No floating bases, structures, or turrets allowed, except for turrets on large hatch frames or vacuum chambers with one side visible.

If a build is deemed as not allowed, an admin will warn you and if it is not corrected it will be removed.

You may not exploit the no-collision setting and place vaults inside each other. They may overlap slightly to protect a generator but should not consist of more than four vaults.

Mass placing vaults inside each other is not allowed. The only exception is if the attacking tribe drops a vault protected area and the vaults fall into each other.

Tunnelling or creating tunnels on platform saddles or via any other method is not permitted. You cannot attempt to tunnel to bypass or get to defences to avoid a legitimate raid.

Forniting is allowed.

FOBs must be within render distance of the base and include at least 10 powered and filled turrets set to players or players + dinos, a generator, and optionally a tek bubble and storages.

Spam should not extend beyond 40 foundations. Fortnite towers are allowed to push forward and spam can be placed around them up to 40 foundations.

If a FOB isn’t built, the defending tribe isn’t considered under attack and can still be FOBbed.

An attacking tribe is responsible for checking the area before FOBbing to make sure no one else has FOBbed. Taking a video to show no one is currently actively raiding before building is advised.

Tribes may destroy their own structures at any time if they are blocking line of sight for turrets or other defences.

You should not destroy your structures to prevent tribe score. We will only accept video evidence that 100% proves this has been done.

To claim a raid base you must place a FOB in the zone you are attacking. If you finish a raid and move to another zone you must also move your FOB, you cannot claim multiple zones at a time.

After a base has been raided and the loot transferred you must remove your FOB. Blocking the area will result in punishments.

If you have a FOB placed in the zone of a raid base it is considered locked out to your tribe.

If another player enters the zone for scouting, inform them that the raid is taken and to move out of the zone. If they do not, you are free to kill them and report them for raid interfering.

Screenshots of chat must be provided to show a warning was issued and that they had plenty of time to leave the zone.