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Dark Arts Cluster Rules

DISCLAIMER: Rules are subject to change. It is the responsibility of every player to stay updated with all rules associated with Dark Arts. Violation of any rules may lead to a ban and/or dino and structure wipe, including the entire tribe and its members.

GENERAL

  • Players come from various age groups; maintain respectful communication in Global chat.
  • Avoid misconduct, including but not limited to unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, homophobic, and sexually explicit language.
  • PvP allows trash-talking within Ark and Discord censorship limits. Excessive or inappropriate behavior will be reviewed and addressed accordingly.
  • Generic names and symbols not found in the English alphabet are prohibited. Admins may request name changes, or assign one if necessary.
  • Spamming messages or advertisements is not permitted.
  • Use Tribe Chat for tribe-related discussions.
  • Racist, sexist, or homophobic character names will result in a ban.
  • Tribe members cannot have identical names; warnings will precede bans for non-compliance.
  • Duping glitches will result in permanent bans.
  • Popcorning, dropping loot during attacks to prevent looting, is prohibited.

PVP / RAID RULES

  • Griefing the same tribe repeatedly discourages player retention; avoid excessive raiding of the same tribe.
  • A 48-hour cooldown is required after raiding a tribe.
  • Activities such as fobbing at someone’s base or destroying structures are considered raids and trigger the 48-hour cooldown.
  • Avoid disclosing player base locations or coordinates in chat.
  • Co-raiding or co-defending is prohibited; all active PvP must display deaths of all involved tribes.
  • Inactive fobs must be removed after 2 hours to optimize server performance.
  • Mesh soaking or tunnel raiding is strictly prohibited.
  • Raiding fully built water vein sides is considered meshing and may lead to tribe absorption.
  • Tunnel raiding and platform builds preventing dino shots are prohibited.
  • Insider threats will result in bans.

Building Guidelines

  • Each tribe is limited to 3 bases, 3 farming FOBs, and 1 PvP FOB per map.
  • Farming FOBs must have fewer than 20 turrets and require a Tek Forcefield to cover turrets.
  • PvP FOBs must have more than 20 turrets, including hatch frames and generators, with turrets outside the Tek Forcefield.
  • Bases of Operations require 100+ turrets and may include crafting areas, incubation facilities, and community spaces.
  • Boss arenas, Pelo, pt builds, and Rat holes are prohibited.

Black Flag

  • Killing black flag tribes and tames is allowed, but any destruction of structures results in an immediate tribe merge.
  • Black flag rules are enforced 3 hours after posting. Fobbing a black flag tribe requires streaming the raid.
  • Violating black flag rules can lead to wipes, bans, or tribe mergers.
  • Black flag limits to 2 days in a row, 5 times a wipe. Alphas cannot purchase black flag protection.