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NEXUS General Rules

Keep it fair, keep it fun. These apply across the entire 11-map cluster.

🚫 No Cheating / Exploiting

Aimbots, ESP, dupe glitches, mesh/terrain exploiting and offline-raid abuse of bugs are instant, permanent bans. No warnings.

🏗️ Building Rules

No building in caves that block loot/artifact access, no obstructing resource spawns or boss terminals, no map-wide pillar spam to claim land you’re not using.

⚔️ Raiding & PvP

Raiding is allowed within normal ARK mechanics. Real-life threats, harassment, or targeted stalking of a player across sessions is not tolerated and will result in a ban.

💬 Discord & Chat Conduct

No hate speech, no doxxing, no spam/advertising other servers. Keep tickets on-topic so the team can help you faster.

🎫 Reporting

Suspect a cheater or a rule break? Open a Cheater Report or Player/Tribe Report ticket in Discord with evidence (clips, screenshots, implant IDs). We investigate every report.

🛠️ Admin Decisions

Admins may act on cases not explicitly covered here to keep the cluster fair. Disagree with a decision? Open a Support or Appeal ticket — don’t argue it out in public chat.

11 maps · Tribes: 4 players · Slots: 40 per map (Warzone: 20)

Not knowing the rules is not an excuse. Staff decision is final. Official Wildcard rules also apply: Wildcard Code of Conduct.

1️⃣ General Rules

General Rules

  1. 1.1 Speak English. Insiding will not be covered by staff. Change teammates only via ticket before the new player joins.
  2. 1.2 Cheating, hacks, exploits or bug abuse is forbidden.
  3. 1.3 Scamming trades, bosses or shop is bannable. Real money trade: permanent ban.
  4. 1.4 Duped items (yours or from a raid) must be reported. Ticket or staff. Hiding it = ban.
  5. 1.5 Account sharing is forbidden.
  6. 1.6 Under-meshing bases is forbidden.
  7. 1.7 Advertising other servers, clusters or discords is not allowed.
  8. 1.8 Mesh bases are forbidden.
  9. 1.9 Racism, hate, threats or encouraging self-harm is not tolerated.
  10. 1.10 Alliances are allowed between 2 tribes (max 4 players each) — 8 players total per alliance. No larger alliance blocks (3+ tribes). Alliance partners may farm, raid, defend and counter-raid together.
  11. 1.11 The rules count by their intent, not only their exact words. Using a loophole to do what a rule clearly forbids is punished like breaking the rule. Unsure? Ask staff in a ticket before you do it.
  12. 1.12 Anything done on purpose to lag or crash a server (structure/dino/item spam, lag machines, mass breeding just to fill a map) is forbidden.
2️⃣ PvP Rules

PvP Rules

  1. 2.1 Raiding, defending and counter-raiding together with your alliance partner (1 allied tribe) is allowed. Teaming with any other tribe outside your alliance — in raids, defense or open world (Veins, OSDs, drops) — is forbidden.
  2. 2.2 Counter-FOB is allowed — alone or with your alliance partner. Third parties must continue the raid. Protecting the same non-allied tribe more than once per 7 days = warn / temp ban. If pushed off, you cannot come back immediately.
  3. 2.3 You need a real FOB to counter — visible, in render of the cave entrance. Real FOB: 20+ turrets, 2 Tek structures, 1 Transmitter. Without that, enemies can counter without a FOB.
  4. 2.4 Only the tribe that claims the cave entrance can raid it. Needs entrance control + area with 20+ turrets.
  5. 2.5 Caging max 3 hours. Recage allowed. Open world caging: forbidden. First 24h after a player joins: forbidden.
  6. 2.6 Meshbiting with Mek, Titan, Velo, Giga, Karkinos is forbidden (even unsaddled). Stego, Arthro etc. are fine.
  7. 2.7 Free shop points / structures / dinos from another tribe (gen off, TP into base, giving stuff): both tribes banned.
  8. 2.8 Giving all raid loot to a tribe outside your alliance is teaming — both can be banned. Sharing loot with your alliance partner is fine.
  9. 2.8a Offline raid protection (ORP, all maps except Warzone): a base with a placed ORP structure is protected 3 hours after the last tribe member logged off. Abusing ORP (logging off during a raid to get protection, ORP spam) is forbidden.
  10. 2.9 Tribe cycling is forbidden (except a clear slot gap). Unclear? Open a ticket.
  11. 2.10 Pickup loot to a second base: allowed. Pickup structures, turrets or crafting: forbidden.
  12. 2.11 Spamming forcefield range to block players/dinos: forbidden.
  13. 2.12 During a raid, tribe members must stay the same — else it counts as tribe cycling.
  14. 2.13 No HP-tank dinos blocking cave chokes. Max 4 dinos (all types) near the entrance (5–20 foundations).
  15. 2.14 Do not block the cave entrance with Cryos, Vaults or Propagators.
  16. 2.15 OSD / Vein: max 2 dinos per player. Solo: 3.
  17. 2.16 Transmitter on yourself or a player: forbidden.
  18. 2.17 Unclaimed dino so turrets shoot enemy structures: forbidden.
  19. 2.18 Max 3 Daeodons per tribe in a raid. Always visible.
  20. 2.19 Vacuums to kill aquatic dinos: forbidden.
  21. 2.20 Griefing an active FOB: forbidden. Join only via counter-raid, then continue the raid.
  22. 2.21 Open-world turrets max 8 per tribe in one area (Extinction, Golem, Ice Queen, resource spawns, player spawns). Exception: FOBs, summoned bosses, defence building. No turrets at all at Custom Resource Caves.
  23. 2.22 Mass soak max 6 soakers (Rex, Megalodon, Tuso count).
  24. 2.23 Max 4 aggro dinos at cave entrances, walls, towers or open world.
3️⃣ Building Rules

Building Rules (incl. Custom Resource Caves)

  1. 3.1 No invisible or invincible structures. Structures +70% in the mesh are forbidden — staff can remove them.
  2. 3.2 No building in KO, zipline, grappling, Kapro/Pelagornis, mesh or chair spots. Mesh access = ban.
  3. 3.3 No tree spam (redwoods etc.) except Cliff Platforms.
  4. 3.4 Structures used to bypass turrets: forbidden (not platform saddles or rafts).
  5. 3.5 Floating structures including crop plots: forbidden, except connected with ground support.
  6. 3.6 No pillar / foundation spam just to block map or drops.
  7. 3.7 Stacking structures inside each other: forbidden. No pillar on vault, no vault/cryo/foundation/forcefield stacks.
  8. 3.8 Not allowed in spam or cave entrance: Vaults, Cryos, Transmitters, Pillar+Vault, Raft/Boat, Mannequin.
  9. 3.9 Vaults on Tek gen: 4 max in 1x/3x — 8 max in 6x. Do not stack vaults more than 2.
  10. 3.10 No building in Wyvern Trench, Blueprint Caves, Puzzle Cave, drops, resource spots, Obelisks, spawns, OSDs, Element Veins.
  11. 3.11 C4 trap and foundations on drops: forbidden.
  12. 3.12 Build max 300 meters (~90 foundations) from base or cave entrance. Temporary structures beyond that only while defending a FOB — FOB gone, remove or pickup.
  13. 3.13 Platform saddles: max 2 gates. At least 1 full side of the dino must be visible. Same for auto-buff dinos.
  14. 3.14 Custom Resource Caves are for everyone — nobody may claim, block or camp them. No structures of any kind inside, at the entrance or within 30 foundations (~100m): no turrets, walls, pillars, foundations, spikes, traps, ORP, vaults, cryopods, generators or beds.
  15. 3.15 Bringing dinos into a Custom Resource Cave is forbidden — also releasing from cryopods inside, riding in, or leaving them at the entrance.
  16. 3.16 Camping a Custom Resource Cave is forbidden — with dinos, turrets, structures or players waiting at the entrance to kill or block others.
  17. 3.17 Blocking the way to a Custom Resource Cave (structures, dinos, traps on the path) is forbidden.
  18. 3.18 Staff removes anything that breaks these rules without refund, plus warn / ban.
4️⃣ Ticket Rules

Ticket Rules

  1. 4.1 Ticket-maining is forbidden. Tickets are for real rule breaks, not a raid weapon.
  2. 4.2 Multiple tickets during PvP to interrupt gameplay: forbidden.
  3. 4.3 Misuse results in a ticket restriction, temp ban, or worse.
  4. 4.4 Staff can reject tickets that are clearly PvP spam.
  5. 4.5 Proof: screenshot or clip. No proof = often no action.
5️⃣ Discord Rules

Discord Rules

  1. 5.1 Use each channel only for its purpose.
  2. 5.2 Advertising other communities or clusters: forbidden.
  3. 5.3 Cheats, exploits, doxxing, porn or gore: forbidden.
  4. 5.4 @everyone / @here without staff OK: forbidden.
  5. 5.5 Hard insults, racism and hate will be punished. The salt channel is for trash talk — this rule still applies everywhere.
  6. 5.6 Admins have the final word. Rudeness, DM abuse or toxic pings can be punished.
⚖️ Punishments

How Breaking Rules Is Handled

Warn → Temp Ban (1h / 24h / 7 days) → Permanent

Cheat, RMT, duping or mesh can be a permanent ban on the first offense. Staff decides case by case.

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