ARK WTF

Common

• 1.1
  The use of cheats and bugs, raiding through textures, and additional programs (exploits, crashes, auto-clickers, etc.) that give an advantage over other players is prohibited.
• 1.2
  Advertising in any form and in any of its manifestations is prohibited.
• 1.3
  Flooding and spamming (frequent posting of the same type of messages) in chat are prohibited.
• 1.4
  Any political disputes and incitement of inter-ethnic enmity are prohibited.
• 1.5
  Excessive swearing and insults are prohibited in general chat (use private messages to settle personal conflicts).

  1.5.1 Insults toward the administration are prohibited. Insulting parents and relatives is strictly forbidden. This includes not only chat, but also names of dinos and anything else that can be seen.
• 1.6
  Using obscene language, insults, or words like admin / administrator in nicknames, tribe names, or ranks is prohibited.
• 1.7
  Using any propaganda slogans in support of the aggressor country Russia is prohibited, including in character nicknames and tribe names.

Construction

• 2.1
  Building inside rock textures and other elevated mesh areas is prohibited. Penalty: complete demolition of all structures on that map. Repeated violations — at admin discretion.

  2.1.1 Covering PVP buildings with allies or any other method that abuses PVE protection is prohibited. Penalty: 24-hour block for the entire tribe.
• 2.2
  Building caves for PVP tribes / artifact runs / terminals is allowed if you have PVP status. Check your level with the chat command !pveinfo. If the entrance to a cave where a PVP tribe is located is blocked by a PVE building, that building will be destroyed or switched to PVE mode.

  2.2.1 Building on terminals is prohibited on all maps where Element or Element Dust is crafted. Turrets may be placed only while completing missions or crafting Element Dust. If turrets stay enabled permanently and the terminal is not used for those purposes, the administration will remove such turrets and buildings.
  For PVE tribes, cave building and everything described above is prohibited — the admin will demolish it. On Fjordur, building caves for boss fights is prohibited. Turrets may be placed only for the duration of the boss fight.
• 2.3
  Blocking the growth of someone else’s PVE base with structures placed tightly against it (foundations, pillars, and other building objects) is prohibited.
• 2.4
  Surrounding your base with junk structures to block other players from building houses, pillars, foundations, etc. is prohibited. (Defense is allowed within reasonable limits.)
• 2.5
  Reserving a build spot for a future base and not building there for a long time is prohibited: if you claimed the spot and placed foundations — build the base, otherwise you are just wasting space. Selling or even trading bases is also not allowed.

  2.5.1 Using the character-size bug relative to structures is prohibited (for example standing on a fridge and shooting from a position the opponent cannot see). This includes shooting from fridges, safes, tek boxes, ramps, stairs, etc.
• 2.6
  Building bases in survivor spawn areas without a free exit from your base territory is prohibited.

  2.6.1 Building turrets and similar structures in the air is prohibited. Every structure must be anchored to the ground.
• 2.7
  There is a limit on how many locations a tribe may occupy. One tribe may have one main base and no more than 3 additional bases / breeders.

  • Base — a location with a resource storage and breeding
  • Breeder — a location without resource storage but with breeding dinos
  • Farms — up to 5 turrets for protection (reasonable amount: 1 per resource type; extra turrets may be delivered during a raid)
  • Crafter — up to 10 turrets (Gen1 / Gen2 only, for free Element use; extra turrets may be delivered during a raid)
• 2.8
  Building on loot-crate spawn areas is prohibited for PVE tribes. 1st time — warning, 2nd — two-week ban.
• 2.9
  Building in the wyvern trench area and in Mission zones is prohibited — such bases will be removed without warning.

Gameplay

• 3.1
  Impersonating an administrator or writing on their behalf is prohibited.

  3.1.1 Alliances are disabled. To help someone, you may join their tribe after waiting the 2-hour timeout.
  Physical help with characters and dinos is allowed, but making your own FOBs, placing turrets, or spamming is forbidden. Penalty: destruction of all buildings. Repeat — 24-hour block.
• 3.2
  Any methods of restricting free player movement are prohibited (cages, handcuffs, narcotics, trapping with rocks, etc.).
• 3.3
  Targeted complete extermination of rare dinosaur species by one tribe or alliance is prohibited.
• 3.4
  Purposefully creating conditions that make the game uncomfortable for other tribes is prohibited.

  3.4.1 If a raid lasts more than 5 days and the attacking side achieves no result — this is a violation of rule 3.4.
  The defending side may contact the administration and must provide a video or screenshot showing the attacking tribe’s name and the date.
  The administration will notify the attacking side to remove their buildings. If ignored for 1 hour, the administration will remove them.
  The next raid on that tribe is allowed only after a 5-day break. Renaming the tribe or transferring players to another tribe to continue the raid (and other forms of abuse) will be punished.
• 3.5
  Night PVE structure protection is active from 22:00 to 10:00 (Kyiv time). PVP between players and dinos is still allowed.
• 3.6
  Night C4 / structure demolition is not possible. The protection plugin is active.
• 3.7
  Mass killing of new PVE players (griefing) and their dinos is prohibited. If you constantly attack players who are much weaker than you, rule 3.7 may also be applied because that playstyle is uncomfortable for most newcomers.
• 3.8
  The administration is not responsible for lost or missing items / loot caused by game crashes, PVP losses, etc.

  3.8.1 Death on spawn from illegal turrets does not entitle you to compensation. Those turrets and buildings will be destroyed. Repeat violations — block from 24 hours to 1 month.

  3.8.2 Selling in-game items or services between players for real money is prohibited. 1st time — 24 hours. Next time — permanent.
• 3.9
  If you transferred to a server and an error occurred, or you were attacked through textures (server crash, game crash, disconnect, etc.) and lost loot — the administration is not responsible. However, if the loot / dinos / etc. were purchased on the server website for real money, a refund may be possible after contacting the administration. You must provide:

  • screenshot of the loot before transferring to the server
  • screenshot after transferring, with the cursor over the item showing its stats
  • screenshot of the server list with the ARKWTF filter
  • your website login
• 4.0
  Duplicating items is prohibited! Creating more than one character on the cluster is prohibited. Penalty: blocking the entire tribe or destroying the base with all dinosaurs. Refunds are possible only to your game account.
• 5.0
  Maximum tamed dino level is 450. Anything higher will be automatically deleted or locked in a cryopod.
• 6.0
  VIP must consist of 5 features. Anything above that may be sent for revision or disabled by the administration if needed. If there are fewer than five features, we refund the full amount to your in-game balance.

Bypassing the rules

• 6.1
  Having more dinos on a base than allowed by the server rules is prohibited. If dinos from another tribe are found on your base, they will be destroyed together with your dinos without warning.
• 6.2
  Breeding dinos with another tribe is prohibited. Penalty: castration of females. Repeat — violator’s account blocked.

  Dino limits per tribe:

  6Carbonemys 6Stego 20Ovis 3Megachelon 5Enforcer
• 7.0
  Meshbiting is prohibited. Intentional use of texture imperfections (structures, map terrain, and dino meshes) to harm other players while hiding for full invulnerability is forbidden. Using “broken” game meshes to hide / sink a character so they become invisible / invulnerable and shoot any weapon from that position is also prohibited.
• 8.0
  All Obelisks and Ascension areas on The Island are protected from building.

New player protection

There is a character level in the game, and it can be 200+, but level alone does not mean a player won’t reset and start attacking weaker players.

To keep things fair, we use WTF LVL:

• •
  Everyone in a tribe shares the same level. If even one member reached Metal while others are still on Thatch, the whole tribe gets Metal status.
• •
  You can still damage players, but only players with the same development level can damage structures.
• •
  The no-griefing rule remains in place. The plugin also uses Python-based AI to block various cheating attempts.