Server Rules
Please note: Darkark is meant to be a hostile player vs player combat environment designed for real hardcore raw pvp battles. This means our rules
we have setup are designed not to limit or police player vs player interactions but to ensure player safetly while playing on the in-game servers so please understand this community is strictly designed for player vs player battles
and not pve battles.
We follow the official Studio Wildcard
code of conduct for Ark: Survival Evolved. Any breach of their rules or ours will result in a ban.
1.0 English only in global.
1.1 Ensure you do not inflict any form of misconduct. Do not try and force dictatorship, blackmail others, create toxicity, and ruin the game for other players in the community. This includes but is not limited to language which is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, homophobic, sexually explicit, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive. This is PvP, trash-talking is okay but if it gets out of hand the situation will be reviewed and dealt with accordingly.
1.2 You must always use a legitimate character, tribe, and dino name(s). It is forbidden to use any symbols not found in the English alphabet. You also may not call your character “Human”, “Survivor”, “Player”, “123”, “321”, “OneTwoThree”, “□□□” or anything similar and no use of emojis under any circumstances.
1.3 Do not a prison or cage offline players.
1.4 You are required to have the same tribe members and tribe name across the cluster, using multiple names to hide identity, rotating members, account sharing, or utilizing alt accounts is strictly forbidden.
1.5 Insiding is completely forbidden, this includes but is not limited to; leaving a tribe and taking items with you without tribe leader consent, disabling defenses to allow entry to another tribe or causing destruction from within the base prior or after leaving the tribe. Whoever the tribe leader has full ownership and can do with the tribe and its roster as they please. It is your responsibility to ensure you are in a trustful tribe, and if you wish to leave a tribe and take items with you then you must disclose it with your tribe leader first.
1.6 No mesh hitting or biting through walls or surfaces with the intent of destroying things on the other side illegitimately.
1.7 Maximum cage timer is 24 hours. (Rule does not apply if you are raiding, you can keep a player caged during the entire duration of the raid if it exceeds 1 day.)
1.8 Using exploits or forbidden creatures to do boss battles isn’t allowed.
1.9 All structures you place must be visible and able to be damaged via a legitimate method.
2.0 Do not block access to, build on or near the following points of interest unless actively PvP’ing or performing Boss Fights;
– Map Spawn Points
– Wyvern “Scar” located on “Ragnarok/Valguero”
2.1 The abuse of no collision building and placing structures or items on top of yours or another’s player model making them completely concealed, immobilized, or invulnerable is forbidden. This rule does not apply to dinos.
2.2 The use of unintended building mechanics raid method utilizing foundations, pillars, ramps, walls, & ceilings to build tunnels and enclosed pathways into enemy bases bypassing enemy defenses with the intent of destroying them from close proximity. Clarification: This rule DOES NOT apply to platform saddle creatures or to rafts & motorboats.
2.3 Using grapples to bypass turrets by exploiting isn’t allowed for raiding or pvping.
2.4 You are allowed to open-world “popcorn” this means mass dropping items from any inventories or containers into individual bags you have access to. The only form of popcorning that is forbidden is despawning of tribe items when being raided and facing imminent base destruction, essentially preventing the attackers from receiving any deserved loot. This includes any other methods like transfering or glitches that prevents raiders from getting the loot inside.
2.5 Tribes are allowed to work together to achieve common goals however, tribes are not allowed to team for raiding or defending.
(Expection being “Console” players are allowed to team for player vs player battles.)
2.6 You are allowed to third party PvP engagements and raids as long as you are actively engaging against all involved tribes evenly and your tribe log proves this. If your tribe log is found to be overwhelmingly in favor of one tribe over another – this will be considered teaming.
(Expection being “Console” players are allowed to team for player vs player battles.)
2.7 You are not allowed to use over-cap items, you must wait until they are capped via server restart or transferring to be eligible for use. (350% Weapons & 140%/112% Saddles)
2.8 Base locations inside “Rat-Holes” are allowed aslong as a turtle can fit inside the “Rat-Hole”. All base locations must be able to be raided via legitimate methods.
Any structures/spam left in forbidden areas in the world will be removed by an admin without warning.
Disclaimer:
We don’t allow nor tolerate fellow staff members or donators to break the rules. You will not see any sort of bias towards donators or fellow staff members this also includes content creators or anything in general who has a higher role within DarkARK. We hold everyone responsible for their actions we just want that to be clear and clarify that nobody will be shown favors to violation our rule structure. We highly encourage all users to report any rule violations against anyone who breaks rules we will hold them accountable based on the rule violation and punishment given.
Discord Rules
● Use common sense.
● English only.
● All channels must be used appropriately and solely for their intended use.
● Aggressive or ‘toxic’ behavior is forbidden.
● Homophobia, racial slurs, or racism is forbidden.
● We have a salt channel where the rules listed above are redounded. Only use that channel if you are fully aware of the potential misconduct you may encounter.
● Alt discord accounts are not allowed for any reason if an alt account is found it will be immediately banned and the main accounts punishment will be extended.
● There is be no advertisement for other ARK communities.
The following rules below must be obeyed in ALL channels including salt discord channel, this is for user safety. Any breach of these rules is considered a serious offense and you will be permanently banned from DarkARK discord without any chance of appeal.
These social areas are solely for DarkArk.
● Attacks on religions and religionist point of views.
● Pornographic, gore, and explicit content or media is completely forbidden.
● Revealing people’s personal information.
● Death threats or anything similar.
● Racial slurs, or racism is forbidden.
● There is be no advertisement for other ARK communities.
Rule Examples
Example #1: User “A” is typing in a foreign language in-game and it’s starting to cluttering up the chat preventing other players from interacting.
Example #2: User “B” is trashing the server but using symbols or another language to do so without people noticing what is actually being said.
Example #3: User “C” is flooding the in-game chat to hide or mask legitimate in-game chat.
Rule Clarifications
To clarify this rule is meant to keep the chat moderated by not having spam of foreign lanugages inside the in-game chat and discord. We have nothing against foreign players who speak foreign languages but in order for our staff to moderate the chat we need to have a general idea or understanding of what is being said as our staff is only trained to handle english relations and actions within in-game.