Cluster Rules & Guidelines

1.1 — Respect & Conduct

1.2 — No Bullying

1.3 — Staff Authority

2.1 — Offline Raiding

2.2 — Raid Fairness

• No entrances requiring chairs, K.O., grappling, or tames. Players must be able to walk, crouch, fly, or swim inside.
• No tunneling, meshing, or exploiting terrain to bypass defenses.
• Counter-raiding, third-party raiding, and stealing raid loot are permitted.

2.3 — Offline Raid Protection

• No ORP on FOBs, raid bases, or offensive structures.
• Raids remain valid if defenders were online when the raid began.
• Logging off to deliberately activate ORP or escape an active raid is prohibited.

2.4 — FOB Clean-up

2.5 — New Player Protection (NPP)

• No using NPP to protect established tribes, store another tribe's valuables, or shield raid-related assets.
• No exploiting NPP mechanics to bypass raiding restrictions.
• NPP players may engage in permitted foot PvP but cannot raid protected structures or use their protection to facilitate prohibited raids.

2.6 — Building During Raids

• No Tunneling: Creating enclosed or protected pathways with foundations, walls, ceilings, ramps, or other structures to advance through defenses while avoiding turret fire is prohibited.
• No Structure Shielding: Building covered routes that allow raiders to push toward a base without exposure to intended defenses is prohibited.
• Legitimate FOBs, turret towers, and offensive structures are permitted, provided they are not used to form protected tunnels.
• No placing structures through terrain, existing structures, or unintended collision boundaries.
• No permanently obstructing enemy bases outside active raids.
• Temporary raid structures must follow FOB cleanup requirements.

2.7 — Player Caging & Imprisonment

• Capturing or imprisoning players outside active raids is prohibited.
• Captured players must be released immediately when the raid concludes.
• Logging off while deliberately keeping prisoners confined is prohibited.
• Repeated imprisonment intended solely to harass or prevent normal gameplay is prohibited.
• Open-world PvP encounters do not qualify as active base raids.

2.8 — Platform Saddle Builds

• No Multifloor Builds: Additional floors exceeding standard platform restrictions are prohibited.
• Maximum 2 Gateway Frames: No more than two gateway frames per platform saddle.
• Standard Structure Limits: Default structure count and build boundaries apply (1.0×).
• No Restricted Structures: Auto Turrets, Plant Species X, and normally prohibited platform structures are not permitted.
• No Exploits: Floating structures, unintended collision, meshing, or bypassing platform restrictions is prohibited.

3.1 — Permanent Base Limits

3.2 — Cave Limits

3.3 — Utility Outposts

3.4 — No Server Claiming

3.5 — Restricted Building

3.6 — Temporary Structures

3.7 — Defensive Structure Spam

• No excessive turret towers, spam foundations, or structures intended solely to deny large areas of the map.
• Defenses must be reasonably connected to an established base or permitted outpost.
• Abandoned defensive structures may be removed by staff.

4.1 — One Tribe Across the Cluster

• All tribes must use the same tribe name on every map.
• Creating or joining different tribes on separate maps (multi-tribing) is prohibited.

4.2 — Tribe Limit Circumvention

• No splitting members between multiple allied tribes to circumvent the 8-man limit.
• No using alternate tribes to bypass ORP, rate limits, base limits, or other cluster restrictions.

4.3 — Tribe Teaming & Alliances

• Coordinated raiding or defending between separate tribes to circumvent the 8-man limit is prohibited.
• No using allied or alternate tribes as additional storage, breeding, or defense locations.
• Temporary non-aggression agreements and legitimate trading are permitted.

5.1 — Tame Management

6.1 — Cheats & Exploits

6.2 — Impersonation & System Abuse

• No impersonating staff or other players to obtain items, privileges, or advantages.
• No knowingly submitting fraudulent recovery requests, fabricated evidence, or false support claims.
• No exploiting shop, casino, event, giveaway, or recovery systems for unauthorized rewards.

6.3 — Underwater Vacuum Structures

• Trapping enemy creatures is permitted when normal damage, escape, and destruction mechanics remain functional.
• Player trapping is subject to Rule 2.7 and is only permitted during active base raids.
• Exploiting vacuum placement or collision to cause unintended instant kills is prohibited.
• Trapping creatures in ways that make them impossible to damage or recover through normal gameplay is prohibited.

6.4 — Structure Dropping & Trapping

• No exploiting dropped structures, demolition mechanics, or collision to force players or creatures through terrain or structures.
• No using unintended mechanics to immobilize players or creatures inside foundations, terrain, or inaccessible locations.
• Legitimate traps and raid structures remain permitted under applicable raiding rules.

6.5 — Tek Bunkers & Defensive Exploits

• No excessive structure spam intended to exploit unintended damage reduction or prevent normal raid progression.
• No exploiting placement, stacking, or collision to create unintended damage immunity.
• Legitimate bunkers must remain accessible and raidable through normal gameplay mechanics.
• Staff may remove structures found to be exploiting unintended mechanics.

6.6 — Exploit Reporting

• Do not publicly distribute methods for exploiting server mechanics.
• Report suspected violations with screenshots, recordings, or available evidence.
• Submit reports through the appropriate support or player-report channel.