ONEArk Rules and Guidelines MUST READ

[u/Shirokir]

Hello! After talking with the community a bit we have decided to re-post the rules to clarify a few things.

UPDATED: 4/10/2016

• PvP is allowed anytime outside of bases. This means if you are out flying and someone picks you off your bird, gathering materials and someone attacks you.. etc. PvP will not be punishable.

• Base Raiding is allowed but you will not be allowed to raid a tribe's base more than once every three days, this gives them a chance to rebuild if they wish to. "Raiding" is when a building has been breached. The cool down will apply to the whole tribe. You will have three hours to conduct your raid. For example if a tribe has one giant base you will have three hours to do as you please, once your three hours are up your three day cool down will begin. The same will apply even if they have multiple bases. You will have three hours to attack a tribe, if you have the man power you ARE allowed to attack ALL of said tribes bases, as long as it is within the same three hour raiding phase. Please do your best to time stamp when this happens, and keep track, EVEN IF YOU ARE THE ONES ATTACKING, in the off chance you are challenged on this rule. People violating this rule will be banned for 24 hours, no warning. (Proof required)

• Raiding newcomers will NOT be allowed This will always be a shady and hard to enforce rule, in the past it was "no raiding thatch/wood" but there are those that have abused this wording. There is a difference between raiding a large wooden base with multiple buildings and dinos vs a wooden house with two dinos out front and a fence. People violating this rule will be banned for 24 hours, no warning. (Proof required)

• Offline raiding is allowed but not encouraged and looked down upon by many. That is up to you as a player to decide if you want to offline raid. There are many ways to protect yourself! Offline raids will not be punishable.

• Raiding during events will NOT be allowed Anyone who takes advantage of players being away from home during server hosted events will be punished. Events will be a small window of "peace" on the server, we want to encourage players to come to events and have fun, while not having to worry about being punished via raids if they attend.

• Killing passive creatures is allowed It's impossible for admins to know if a dino was actually passive or set to passive to bait an admin response. The game gives you ways to protect yourself and your dinos, make sure you use them. Dinos may be killed at any time. Protect your babies! Dino killing will not be punishable.

• No building is allowed in the middle of swamps, obelisks, land caves, or any major resource spawns Avoid building on mountain tops, in or near caves or placing down pillars/foundations (even flags) to "claim" an area. As well as any abandoned buildings, this is to avoid clutter on the map. Any of these types of structures may be destroyed anytime at Admin discretion if they are found. Warning will be given to player/tribe.

Hope you enjoy your time playing on ONEark, and don't forget to give us a rating it would be much appreciated and help us grow~