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.
General Rules
- 1.1 Speak English. Insiding will not be covered by staff. Change teammates only via ticket before the new player joins.
- 1.2 Cheating, hacks, exploits or bug abuse is forbidden.
- 1.3 Scamming trades, bosses or shop is bannable. Real money trade: permanent ban.
- 1.4 Duped items (yours or from a raid) must be reported. Ticket or staff. Hiding it = ban.
- 1.5 Account sharing is forbidden.
- 1.6 Under-meshing bases is forbidden.
- 1.7 Advertising other servers, clusters or discords is not allowed.
- 1.8 Mesh bases are forbidden.
- 1.9 Racism, hate, threats or encouraging self-harm is not tolerated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
PvP Rules
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 2.4 Only the tribe that claims the cave entrance can raid it. Needs entrance control + area with 20+ turrets.
- 2.5 Caging max 3 hours. Recage allowed. Open world caging: forbidden. First 24h after a player joins: forbidden.
- 2.6 Meshbiting with Mek, Titan, Velo, Giga, Karkinos is forbidden (even unsaddled). Stego, Arthro etc. are fine.
- 2.7 Free shop points / structures / dinos from another tribe (gen off, TP into base, giving stuff): both tribes banned.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2.9 Tribe cycling is forbidden (except a clear slot gap). Unclear? Open a ticket.
- 2.10 Pickup loot to a second base: allowed. Pickup structures, turrets or crafting: forbidden.
- 2.11 Spamming forcefield range to block players/dinos: forbidden.
- 2.12 During a raid, tribe members must stay the same — else it counts as tribe cycling.
- 2.13 No HP-tank dinos blocking cave chokes. Max 4 dinos (all types) near the entrance (5–20 foundations).
- 2.14 Do not block the cave entrance with Cryos, Vaults or Propagators.
- 2.15 OSD / Vein: max 2 dinos per player. Solo: 3.
- 2.16 Transmitter on yourself or a player: forbidden.
- 2.17 Unclaimed dino so turrets shoot enemy structures: forbidden.
- 2.18 Max 3 Daeodons per tribe in a raid. Always visible.
- 2.19 Vacuums to kill aquatic dinos: forbidden.
- 2.20 Griefing an active FOB: forbidden. Join only via counter-raid, then continue the raid.
- 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.
- 2.22 Mass soak max 6 soakers (Rex, Megalodon, Tuso count).
- 2.23 Max 4 aggro dinos at cave entrances, walls, towers or open world.
Building Rules (incl. Custom Resource Caves)
- 3.1 No invisible or invincible structures. Structures +70% in the mesh are forbidden — staff can remove them.
- 3.2 No building in KO, zipline, grappling, Kapro/Pelagornis, mesh or chair spots. Mesh access = ban.
- 3.3 No tree spam (redwoods etc.) except Cliff Platforms.
- 3.4 Structures used to bypass turrets: forbidden (not platform saddles or rafts).
- 3.5 Floating structures including crop plots: forbidden, except connected with ground support.
- 3.6 No pillar / foundation spam just to block map or drops.
- 3.7 Stacking structures inside each other: forbidden. No pillar on vault, no vault/cryo/foundation/forcefield stacks.
- 3.8 Not allowed in spam or cave entrance: Vaults, Cryos, Transmitters, Pillar+Vault, Raft/Boat, Mannequin.
- 3.9 Vaults on Tek gen: 4 max in 1x/3x — 8 max in 6x. Do not stack vaults more than 2.
- 3.10 No building in Wyvern Trench, Blueprint Caves, Puzzle Cave, drops, resource spots, Obelisks, spawns, OSDs, Element Veins.
- 3.11 C4 trap and foundations on drops: forbidden.
- 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.
- 3.13 Platform saddles: max 2 gates. At least 1 full side of the dino must be visible. Same for auto-buff dinos.
- 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.
- 3.15 Bringing dinos into a Custom Resource Cave is forbidden — also releasing from cryopods inside, riding in, or leaving them at the entrance.
- 3.16 Camping a Custom Resource Cave is forbidden — with dinos, turrets, structures or players waiting at the entrance to kill or block others.
- 3.17 Blocking the way to a Custom Resource Cave (structures, dinos, traps on the path) is forbidden.
- 3.18 Staff removes anything that breaks these rules without refund, plus warn / ban.
Ticket Rules
- 4.1 Ticket-maining is forbidden. Tickets are for real rule breaks, not a raid weapon.
- 4.2 Multiple tickets during PvP to interrupt gameplay: forbidden.
- 4.3 Misuse results in a ticket restriction, temp ban, or worse.
- 4.4 Staff can reject tickets that are clearly PvP spam.
- 4.5 Proof: screenshot or clip. No proof = often no action.
Discord Rules
- 5.1 Use each channel only for its purpose.
- 5.2 Advertising other communities or clusters: forbidden.
- 5.3 Cheats, exploits, doxxing, porn or gore: forbidden.
- 5.4 @everyone / @here without staff OK: forbidden.
- 5.5 Hard insults, racism and hate will be punished. The salt channel is for trash talk — this rule still applies everywhere.
- 5.6 Admins have the final word. Rudeness, DM abuse or toxic pings can be punished.
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.
