Server rules

A tribe is allowed up to 3 bases across the cluster, with a maximum of 2 ratholes. (Included in the 3 base limit)

Bases are not allowed at the following locations:

• Spawn Zones
• The Island Red Obelisk
• The Center Blue Obelisk
• Scorched Earth Blue Obelisk
• Ragnarok Blue Obelisk
• Ragnarok Green Obelisk
• Astraeos Green Obelisk
• Lost Colony Boss Summoning Platform
• Aberration Surface Entrances
• Lava Golem Cave
• Ice Queen Cave
• Extinction Terminals
• Genesis Mission Zones
• Genesis Volcanic Cave
• Valguero & Astraeos Aberration Zone Entrances
• Astraeos The Void Above and Void Beneath Terminals
• Astraeos Colossus and Kroaratos Terminals
• Wyvern and Rock Drake or similar egg spawn areas
• Extinction/Astraeos OSDs (Allowed to build during active defence, must be removed after)

Punishment: WarningStructure removal

• All bases must be walk-in accessible and destructible. Crouch entrances are allowed.
• No Special Tactics required to enter the base location. Underwater ratholes must be able to swim through.
• No meshed structures/turrets, glitch spots, or foundation exploits.
• No building in the mesh, under the map, or buggy terrain, including normally accessible caves that are technically within the mesh. The mesh should not be visible from your base location. Violations will result in an immediate structure wipe + warning.

Punishment: WarningArea wipeBan

• You must place the Spam Range structure at your base or cave entrance.
• Spam cannot be snapped more than 2 foundations together.
• All spam must remain within this range.
• Turret towers are allowed outside of range with no spam present

Punishment: WarningSpam removalBan

• No tunnel builds allowed. This includes any structures used to bypass enemy build zones.
• Platform dinos/structure (raft, zeppelin, etc.) may not be fully enclosed.
• At least two sides must be exposed and able to be shot by turrets.
• Blocking the rider is allowed only if it does not prevent the dino from taking damage.
• No exploits allowed with platform dinos or structures.

Punishment: Warning + FOB/area wipeBan

• No stacking more than 2 vaults, pillars, dinos, or other structures inside each other.

Punishment: WarningWipe

• No placing structures on players to trap, immobilize, or protect them.

Punishment: WarningBan

• ORP Shield must not be placed at FOBs
• ORP Shield is only to be placed at your base, not in the open world.

Punishment: Warning + ORP RemovalBan

No open-world structures unrelated to your base, including turrets, tek forcefields, or gates.

• Beds, taming traps, and teleporters are allowed.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

• Tribes are allowed to have 1 farming outpost per map.
• Farming Outposts must have a maximum of 15 turrets.
• Farming Outposts cannot be in caves or ratholes.
• Farming Outposts must have an outpost range structure placed. All structures must remain in this range. To Craft: Craft a Range Structure and switch the variant to the Farming Outpost Structure.
• Farming Outposts cannot have ORP Structures.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

Open-world turrets are allowed but must be removed within 24 hours, including batteries.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

Punishment: Ban

No harmful, threatening, sexual, or racist language.

Punishment: Ban

Punishment: Ban

No coordinated attacks or help between separate tribes.

Punishment: WarningBan

No holding players hostage longer than 30 minutes unless during an active raid.

Punishment: WarningBan

Max 2 hours during active raid (starts when ticket is created).

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: Ban

No intentional despawning ("popcorning") of loot during active raids.

Loot can be moved but not destroyed to deny attackers.

Punishment: WarningBan

No alt accounts or account sharing.

Punishment: Ban

Items lost to insiding will not be replaced. It is your responsibility to hire trustworthy teammates.

Punishment: Permanent ban

Punishment: Ban

Open world PVP is allowed. This includes actions like killing passive dinos, soaking turrets, or setting up FOBs. To engage in PVP, simply have a tribe leader type /nppoff

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Counter-fobbing is allowed with conditions:

Counter raiders must continue the raid

If pushed off, they may not return

A visible FOB is required (25+ turrets minimum)

FOB must be in render of the cave entrance

Counter FOB must be established and the enemy FOB destroyed before attacking the base.

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: Warning + structure wipeBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Do not abuse restarts or crashes to activate ORP.

Failure to log back in will result in ORP being manually disabled.

Punishment: Warning + ORP DisabledBan

Raiding/Griefing NPP players bases in any way is not allowed.

Open world PVP is allowed but griefing NPP players structures is not allowed whatsoever.

Punishment: WarningBan

Any third base found will get automatically deleted without notice. A base is considered any structure collection.

• Obelisks
• Wyvern/Rock Drake/Deinonychus/Magmasaur nests
• Lava Golem/Ice Queen caves
• Valguero Ab Zone Entrances
• Spawn zones
• World Borders (including foundation placement exploits)
• Astraeos/Genesis teleport zones
• Extinction OSDs can be built on during use but must be cleaned up after.
• Explorer Notes/Genesis Glitches (can be built around, but must allow easy access such as a path for other players to get to it)
• Caves with larger than a single render distance, must leave one entrance open
• Cave of the Whispering Needle - Lost Colony - 53/24
• Radiation Cave - Lost Colony - 13/63
• Extinction Terminals
• Artifact caves
• Aberration surfaces/entrances

Temporary spam while building is fine but must be removed after completion or logout.

All teleporters must be set to public use. Teleporters may not be placed in locations that block or interfere with high-value resource spawns, dino spawns, or another tribe's ability to build or expand their base. Teleporters in your base do not count towards this limit.

Items lost to insiding will not be replaced, it is your tribe and your responsibility to hire trustworthy tribe mates.

This will get you instantly banned. If your items mistakenly duped, you must get rid of them or you will be banned. No warnings.

All parties involved in real money trading will be permanently banned.

More than 2 stacked dinosaurs will be admin wiped without notice and further punishments will apply for repeat offenders. Dinosaurs that get stacked while growing up need to be picked up as soon as they become adults.

Griefing consists of any form of trying to kill or destroy a players model or structures. Griefing also includes stealing tames and interfering with another players PVE progression.

Neutered dinosaurs must remain neutered as intended by the trader.

Warnings for shiny interference will only be issued with video evidence.

Taming

• The first player to land a tranq on a shiny has claim protection.
• If another player kills or KOs the shiny, causing the tame to be lost, they will receive a warning.
• If you have claim protection on a shiny and intentionally kill it to deny another player, no warning will be issued.
• For passive tames, you must stay nearby and clearly show activity (ex: an unpodded dino nearby).

Essence/Loot Kills

• To claim a shiny for essence/loot, you must be the first player to apply a bolt or deal damage (for non-specials).
• Simply standing nearby does not reserve the shiny.
• If your bolt expires before the shiny dies, your claim is lost.

Loss of Claim

• Leaving render distance or dying forfeits your claim protections.

• Mutated tames may only be traded, sold, or transferred if the receiving tribe can provide proof that they already own a comparable or higher mutated tame of their own. The following lines are exempt and do not count as proof: Carchas, Pyros, Rhynios, and Mountain Gryphons
• Any tame with 65+ mutation stat points in a single stat or a level above 400 must be spayed/neutered before transfer unless the receiving tribe meets the above requirement.
• Obtaining or modifying another breeder's line does not make it your own breeding line.
• The original breeder may place additional restrictions on their line. If stated in writing before or at the time of trade, restrictions against resale, sharing, or redistribution must be respected and cannot be applied retroactively.
• Tames legitimately obtained from decayed bases are exempt from transfer/progression restrictions.

• All trading rules apply regardless of where or how the trade is arranged. Using private messages, Discord, third-party platforms, alternate tribes, or other methods to bypass these rules is prohibited. Intentional attempts to circumvent the trading rules may result in an indefinite ban.

• Players may only be given or traded items corresponding to engrams available at their current character level or below. Higher-quality versions of eligible items are permitted.
• Players may not be directly supplied with items requiring a higher character level than they have reached.
• Mutated tame trading is governed by BT1.
• Helping or carrying other players through Boss Fights, OSDs, and other encounters is permitted.

• If you obtain another player's dinosaur through a bug, glitch, exploit, or unintended game mechanic, you must return it to the rightful owner or dispose of it. Knowingly keeping, using, or transferring such a dinosaur will result in suspension.

Any third base found will get automatically deleted without notice. A base is considered any structure collection.

• Obelisks
• Wyvern/Rock Drake/Deinonychus nests
• Lava Golem/Ice Queen caves
• Valguero Ab Zone Entrances
• Spawn zones
• World Borders (including foundation placement exploits)
• Astraeos teleport zones
• Extinction OSDs can be built on during use but must be cleaned up after.
• Explorer Notes (can be built around, but must allow easy access such as a path for other players to get to it)
• Caves with larger than a single render distance, must leave one entrance open
• Cave of the Whispering Needle - Lost Colony - 53/24
• Radiation Cave - Lost Colony - 13/63
• Extinction Terminals
• Artifact caves
• Aberration surfaces/entrances

Temporary spam while building is fine but must be removed after completion or logout.

No alt accounts or account sharing.

Items lost to insiding will not be replaced, it is your tribe and your responsibility to hire trustworthy tribe mates.

This will get you instantly banned. If your items mistakenly duped, you must get rid of them or you will be banned. No warnings.

More than 2 stacked dinosaurs will be admin wiped without notice and further punishments will apply for repeat offenders. Dinosaurs that get stacked while growing up need to be picked up as soon as they become adults.

Griefing consists of any form of trying to kill or destroy a players model or structures. Griefing also includes stealing tames and interfering with another players PVE progression.

No giving items or dinos to new players, including carrying them through bosses. Trades must be between players of the same progression tier, only trade dinos or items a player could reasonably obtain themselves.

You can teleport to the boss arenas using an Awesome Teleporter Remote.

A tribe is allowed up to 3 bases across the cluster, with a maximum of 2 ratholes. (Included in the 3 base limit)

Bases/Aggressive Dinos are not allowed at the following locations:

• Fjordur Teleportation Areas
• Obelisks
• Wyvern Nests / Egg Spawns
• Genesis 2 Rockwell Innards
• Genesis 2 Space Bridges
• Lava Golem Cave
• Ice Queen Cave
• Genesis Volcanic Cave
• Genesis Mission Zones
• Extinction unfobable location above King Titan Terminal
• Crystal Isles Underwater Tunnels
• Valguero Aberration Zone entrances
• Aberration surface & green surface entrances
• Genesis 2 Mission Zones / Terminals
• Spawn Zones
• World Borders (including foundation placement exploits)
• You may build at Extinction OSDs while active, but all structures must be removed once finished.

Punishment: WarningStructure/Dino removal

• All bases must be walk-in accessible and destructible. Crouch entrances are allowed.
• No Special Tactics required to enter the base location. Underwater ratholes must be able to swim through.
• No meshed structures/turrets, glitch spots, or foundation exploits.
• No building in the mesh, under the map, or buggy terrain, including normally accessible caves that are technically within the mesh. The mesh should not be visible from your base location. Violations will result in an immediate structure wipe + warning.

Punishment: WarningArea wipeBan

• You must place the Spam Range structure at your base or cave entrance.
• Spam cannot be snapped more than 2 foundations together.
• All spam must remain within this range.
• Turret towers are allowed outside of range with no spam present

Punishment: WarningSpam removalBan

• No tunnel builds allowed. This includes any structures used to bypass enemy build zones.
• Platform dinos/structure (raft, zeppelin, etc.) may not be fully enclosed.
• At least two sides must be exposed and able to be shot by turrets.
• Blocking the rider is allowed only if it does not prevent the dino from taking damage.
• No exploits allowed with platform dinos or structures.

Punishment: Warning + FOB/area wipeBan

• No stacking more than 2 vaults, pillars, dinos, or other structures inside each other.

Punishment: WarningWipe

• No placing structures on players to trap, immobilize, or protect them.

Punishment: WarningBan

• ORP Shield must not be placed at FOBs
• ORP Shield is only to be placed at your base, not in the open world.

Punishment: Warning + ORP RemovalBan

• No open-world structures unrelated to your base, including turrets, tek forcefields, or gates.
• Beds, taming traps, and teleporters are allowed.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

No building in locations that require glitches or exploits to access (campfire glitch, suicide glitch, pelagornis, etc.).

• Crouch areas are allowed only if they are easily enterable without special tactics or movement.

• Tribes are allowed to have 1 farming outpost per map.
• Farming Outposts must have a maximum of 15 turrets.
• Farming Outposts cannot be in caves or ratholes.
• Farming Outposts must have an outpost range structure placed. All structures must remain in this range. To Craft: Craft a Range Structure and switch the variant to the Farming Outpost Structure.
• Farming Outposts cannot have ORP Structures.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

• Open-world turrets are allowed but must be removed within 24 hours, including batteries.

Punishment: Warning + Structures Area WipedWarning + Structures Area WipedBan

Punishment: Ban

No harmful, threatening, sexual, or racist language.

Punishment: Ban

Punishment: Ban

No coordinated attacks or help between separate tribes.

Punishment: WarningBan

No holding players hostage longer than 30 minutes unless during an active raid.

Punishment: WarningBan

Max 2 hours during active raid (starts when ticket is created).

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: Ban

No intentional despawning ("popcorning") of loot during active raids.

Loot can be moved but not destroyed to deny attackers.

Punishment: WarningBan

No alt accounts or account sharing.

Punishment: Ban

Items lost to insiding will not be replaced. It is your responsibility to hire trustworthy teammates.

Punishment: Permanent ban

Punishment: Ban

Open world PVP is allowed. This includes actions like killing passive dinos, soaking turrets, or setting up FOBs. To engage in PVP, simply have a tribe leader type /nppoff

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

• Counter-fobbing is allowed with conditions:
• Counter raiders must continue the raid
• If pushed off, they may not return
• A visible FOB is required (25+ turrets minimum)
• FOB must be in render of the cave entrance
• Counter FOB must be established and the enemy FOB destroyed before attacking the base.

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: WarningBan

Punishment: Warning + structure wipeBan

Punishment: WarningBan

• Do not abuse restarts or crashes to activate ORP.
• Failure to log back in will result in ORP being manually disabled.

Punishment: Warning + ORP DisabledBan

• Raiding/Griefing NPP players bases in any way is not allowed.
• Open world PVP is allowed but griefing NPP players structures is not allowed whatsoever.

Punishment: WarningBan

Each tribe is limited to three bases per map.

Bases must be in separate locations.

Multiple structures within the same vicinity count as one base.

Any fourth base will be automatically deleted without notice.

A base is defined as any collection of structures.

Teleporters and beds are exempt.

Meshed structures or turrets are strictly prohibited.

Boss cages and boss arenas may only be built on the SquirtleArk Boss Map.

No building or aggressive dinosaurs are allowed at any of the following locations:

• Fjordur teleportation areas
• Obelisks
• Wyvern nests / egg spawn locations
• Genesis 2 Rockwell Innards
• Lava Golem Cave
• Ice Queen Cave
• Genesis Volcanic Cave
• Genesis Mission Zones
• Crystal Isles underwater tunnels
• Valguero Aberration zone entrances
• Aberration surface and green surface entrances
• Spawn zones

No foundation spamming across the map.

Foundation use around your own base is permitted.

No open-world structures are allowed.

Taming traps, beds, and teleporters are permitted.

No building in glitched or exploit-based locations.

SquirtleArk PvE Shields may only be used to protect your base.

PvE Shields may not be used for boss fights, taming, or any other purpose.

Improper use may result in a structure wipe.

Scamming players during trades is strictly prohibited.

Bosses may only be spawned on the SquirtleArk Primal Fear Boss Map.

This includes all bosses that require a spawner (Origins, etc.).

Players caught spawning bosses outside the boss map will be suspended from all SquirtleArk servers.

Boss Summons will be auto deleted if transferred to any map other than the boss map.

Progression skipping is not allowed.

Do not give new players items upon joining.

Trading is allowed only if both players are on the same progression tier.

End-game dinosaurs may not be traded to lower-tier players.

Assisting players with bosses they cannot reasonably complete themselves is also considered progression skipping.

Duping and cheating is strictly prohibited.

Griefing players in any form is not allowed.

This includes spawning bosses near player bases or characters.

Violations will result in an instant ban.

No stacking more than two dinosaurs inside one another.

Violations will be admin wiped without notice.

Repeat offenses may result in further punishment.

Dinosaurs stacked while growing must be separated once fully grown.

Tribes causing server lag, crashes, or performance issues may be banned.

Warnings may be issued depending on the situation.

It is your responsibility to ensure your base does not cause lag.

Each tribe is limited to three bases and two boss arenas per map.

Bases must be in separate locations.

Multiple structures within the same vicinity count as one base.

Any fourth base found will be automatically deleted without notice.

A base is defined as any collection of structures.

Teleporters and beds are exempt.

Meshed structures or turrets are strictly prohibited.

No building or aggressive dinosaurs are allowed at any of the following locations:

• Fjordur teleportation areas
• Obelisks
• Wyvern nests / egg spawn locations
• Lava Golem Cave
• Ice Queen Cave
• Genesis Volcanic Cave
• Genesis Mission Zones
• Crystal Isles underwater tunnels
• Valguero Aberration zone entrances
• Spawn zones
• Caves with larger than a single render distance, must leave one entrance open

Foundation spamming across the map is not allowed.

Foundation use around your own base is permitted.

No open-world structures are allowed.

Taming traps, beds, and teleporters are permitted.

No building in glitched or exploit-based locations.

Open-world void vacuums are not allowed.

Void vacuums may be used during fights but must be picked up immediately after.

Void vacuums are allowed inside boss arenas and bases.

SquirtleArk PvE Shields may only be used to protect your base.

They may not be used for boss fights, taming, or any other purpose.

Misuse may result in a structure wipe.

Scamming players during trades is strictly prohibited.

Mass breeding that contributes to server performance issues is not allowed.

Progression skipping is not allowed.

Do not give new players items upon joining.

Trading of non-stat dinos, unique saddles and paragons is allowed after a player finishes the egg chart.

Stat dinosaurs can be traded after a player finishes all 6 unique group gods.

Assisting players with bosses or trading boss/god souls they cannot reasonably complete themselves is also considered progression skipping.

Soul-runs will require at minimum a completed egg chart to attend

Duping is strictly prohibited.

Griefing players in any form is not allowed.

This includes spawning bosses near player bases or characters.

Violations will result in an instant ban.

No stacking more than two dinosaurs inside one another.

More than two stacked dinosaurs will be admin wiped without notice.

Repeat offenses will result in further punishment.

Dinosaurs stacked while growing must be separated once fully grown.

Dinosaurs sharing the same hitbox are considered stacked.

Tribes causing server lag, crashes, or performance issues may be banned.

Warnings may be issued depending on the situation.

It is your responsibility to ensure your base does not cause lag.

Do not place random void vacuums outside of your base, boss arenas, or summoning beacons.

Using void vacuums to grief or interfere with other players' loot is prohibited.

ANY flying god (this includes Ethereal Group God, Infinity, etc.) as well as Endless (God of Destruction, God of Protection), Perfect Zodiac, and Perfect Darkness MUST all be summoned inside a Zytharian Boss Arena.

When selling or trading dinosaurs, any dinosaur with one or more max stats must be neutered or spayed before being sold.

This rule is intended to protect sellers. You may choose to sell or trade a breedable dinosaur, but you do so entirely at your own risk. If a breedable dinosaur is sold, traded, lost, stolen, duplicated, or otherwise involved in a dispute, staff will not provide assistance or compensation.

By selling or trading a dinosaur that can still breed, you accept full responsibility for any resulting issues.

To protect the server economy and player effort, all statted dinosaurs and Paragons must adhere to a strict minimum pricing schedule based on their adjusted Shard Value (SV).

SV Adjustments: Any dino with 1-4 SV is raised to a 5 SV Minimum (e.g., Jerboa), and any dino with 16-40 SV is lowered to a 15 SV Maximum (e.g., Dragon).

Minimum Prices (Points)

• Paragons: SV x 30
• Breakers: 100 per dino
• Non-7th Stat Dino: SV x 2,000
• 7th Stat Dino: SV x 2,500
• Boss / Unique Stat Dino: SV x 3,000

Trading

Statted dinos and Paragons can only be traded for points or for Paragons of equal value: SV x 30. Sellers may always charge above these minimums at their own discretion.