Dark and Light PvE Server Rules
All rules found here will pertain to all of our current and future Servers. Please read and familiarize yourself with them. UPDATED 5/1/2025
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All rules found here will pertain to all of our current and future Servers. Please read and familiarize yourself with them. UPDATED 5/1/2025
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❝Your presence in this server implies accepting these rules, including all further changes. We reserve the right to modify these rules in any way we deem necessary and at any moment, at our own discretion, it is your responsibility to check for them.❞
These rules are not comprehensive and use of loopholes to violate the spirit of these rules is subject to enforcement. Failure to follow these rules will result in being removed from the community! Furthermore, If someone is a participant of our Discord, and/or a Player on our Servers, A ban on Discord may also be pursued on the Server Cluster. Please follow all of the RULES found here!
We are unable to provide any refunds to persons or clans for loss of items, resources, in-game properties and so on, regardless of the reason. The Pack Gaming is not responsible for replacing items or Dinos due to ASE Glitches, Steam Cloud Errors, or Corrupted Players Clients.
Please read through and consider the spirit of the rules, not just the specific wording. And make sure your clanmates are also aware of them as their actions can affect you. Any infraction by a player will most likely have repercussions for the entire clan. Other than this official post of rules, we do not issue warnings ahead of Admin intervention.
You and your Tribe/Clan get a warning. Such as a sign in your base or a message to talk with an admin.
You and your Tribe/Clan get a second warning. Same as above but Tames are confiscated, or buildings removed. Written note added to the Admins Log recording your player name and Tribe.
You and your Tribe/Clan get a third warning. As verified by our Admins Log. We are done, and you are Perm Banned.
Hacking, or using Exploits and other situations deemed as extreme will be met with a permanent ban on the first offense. Included in this category are: Real-Money Trading (RMT), use of third-party programs that inject code and modify aspects of the game to provide unfair advantage against other players. And abuses of game mechanics to obtain an unfair advantage over other players including creating a detrimental play experience through reduced server or game performance.
We allow coarse humor, rough language, and or content. If this is not for you, Thank you for your interest, but we may not be the BEST FIT for you. There are some offensive and defamatory chat and user-created content DEEMED NOT PERMITTED. Personal threats, doxing, stalking. This rule also extends to character names, guild names, in-game signs, any other type of communication in Server. Our admin team considers all the above action types of harassment . If reported to admins, you will receive up to a 5 day Temp - ban . Continued Harassment of this type will lead to a Perma-Ban.
DO NOT destroy/claim/or remove parts of bases, NAMED any of the following variations:
<name> (ADMIN); <name> (OWNER); <name> {Owner/Admin}; "The PACK"**Admin {Community Buildings} . You will be banned!
The PACK uses extended rates (12 RL Days for Tames), all structures and tamed creatures WILL auto-decay. This means that if nobody in your tribe logs into the game every 7-10 days, your structures and dinosaurs may disappear. In general, higher-tier structures will last longer than lower-tier structures.
It is the responsibility of the Player to make sure they refresh all timers on the servers they play on. You must RENDER the items to actually prevent the decay of the item this can take up to 15 min. interval in your base moving about to properly render in all sections of the build in your players render radius.
Any tribe that is fully inactive (24 days of no log ins) will be dino/structure wiped by admins. Please advise the admin team of prolonged (over 12 days) absences if you are not abandoning your base.
Framework - 3 days or 72 hours
Wood - 4 days or 96 Hours.
Creatures are CLAIMABLE in 12 Days.
Straw - 3 days or 72 hours.
Stone - 5 days or 120 Hours.
Iron - 7 days or 168 Hours.
Manor - 15 days or 360 Hours.
Do NOT leave Tamed creatures all over the map! These will be Deleted at The Pack Admins discretion. With no recompense!
Defensive settings allowed = Neutral, and attack my target. No other setting is approved for Defensive Dinos.
The Defensive Creatures must be encumbered to the point it cannot walk in any direction. Do Not Set any Defensive Creatures on WANDER! These will sometimes go rouge on resets or server crashes, and phase your walls.
ALL Creatures NOT ENCUMBERED and on AGGRESSIVE, running loose outside base walls, will be SHOT ON SIGHT. NO EXCEPTIONS and no RECOMPENSE.
Please remember that there are other players sharing the server with you. Restricting others’ access to content is not allowed beyond of course grabbing a spot for your base. This includes using building items to provide yourself with an unfair advantage at claiming loot crates, artifacts and OSD's. If you wish to reign supreme on the map and hog all the resources and enemies, please consider single player.
ONE Main base per map, ONE Outpost per map per clan/tribe. Except where NOTED.
Building tile counts should be under 3000 tiles for a Main BASE.
DO NOT BUILD a box that encompasses the full 80x80x24. Instead use a Fence line of Gates to reduce the lag. Build inside such gates.
MAIN BASE - a maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles. THIS allotment includes all FENCE LINES and the Buildings that form the Base inside that FENCE LINE.
OUTPOSTS: a maximum of 30x30x24. THIS allotment includes all FENCE LINES and the Buildings that form the Outpost inside that FENCE LINE. (NOTE: Not Applicable to SE.)
Mobile Bases (Platform Saddles & Rafts) are acceptable to use for farming and other tribal needs but when NOT in use they need to be parked near the Tribes Main base or Outpost.
Building in/on Ruins ARE allowed but do not block any entrance to other Areas. Please stay as close to the allowed base/outpost size as possible.
Cave building - Do not build in any cave with restrictions put forth in the Prohibitive Build Areas for your map.
You may make a temporary taming place. This may be a 15 x 15 normal foundation area with a logout area. This is a temporary site and should be removed as soon as the tame/s have been processed. PLEASE CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES!
Render Distance Rule - Space between NON Allianced Bases is 75 building tiles.
No Blocking of content in the game, such as caves, dungeons, resource rich areas, or boss areas.
Do not enclose in a fence more than three nodes of ORE, or any known Loot chest spawn. Please leave a passage to the Chests, Obelisks, and Shrines.
Do not camp dungeons, or other group hunt instances. Groups may wait to get in if it is a one or two man instance.
Do not leave tames in loot caves.
Please don't hoard resources! A large storage of each resource is enough for a large Guild!. Plan accordingly.
No Massive constructions (lets not build the Tower of Dragons so something like that). Creates a chance for a memory leak that can crash the server until the build is removed.
Any type of Client Side Crash can create a loss of saved data for the player. As well as Player deaths and Creature deaths while you were handling the crash. These incidents will not produce a Death cache bag.
Server Crashes will have a 5 to 14 min. Rollback to the save Prior to the restart, or to the last save before the Crash. All Data collected between the Save time stamp and the restart / Crash will be erased.
Server Restarts will have a save 3 mins prior to a Restart. If you do not log out before that 3 min. Mark, you can loose some game data to the server resetting. Please always try to get to a safe stopping point before the 5 min Restart warning!
Characters/Creatures/Items uploaded to the Steam cloud have a 24-hour time limit in multiplayer. Ensure you are set to download them into another server before the timer runs out, or else your items will decay in your upload when the timer goes past 0.
Steam Cloud Errors involve Characters/Creatures/Items uploaded to the Steam cloud. If this upload is corrupted, Admins and Owners can NOT Access the data stored in the Steam cloud and your information is lost.
Unexplained Deaths:
Deaths while AFK or logged out. Are not always explained in the tribal logs. Most times we can not define what happened. Thirst, Hunger, or wild creature aggression can all cause unexplained deaths. Death cache decay is 30 mins. To Prevent Player loss of items. Store all inventory in a storage chest near your log out point. Log out in a sleeping room (4x4 enclosed room) or locked onto a bed. If you need to AFK, make sure to set your settings for at least 30 mins AFK, and again store items and log out on a bed of some sort.
Please contact us through our Discord, (), and fill out a ticket in our Discord ()
If you experience Harassment / Griefing / or observe inappropriate content in-game, please fill out a ticket in our Discord ()
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