Soulmask Server Rules

All rules found here will pertain to all of our current and future Servers. Please read and familiarize yourself with them. UPDATED 6/21/2024

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1. General Server Guidelines!

The PACK Disclaimer and Players Notice!

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! Please follow all of the RULES found here!

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. We endeavor to Update in game and in Discord when there are significant updates.

We are unable to provide any refunds to persons or Guilds for loss of items, resources, in-game properties and so on, regardless of the reason. Palworld is in an Alpha state and we are unable to Admin Spawn Items, and Pals.

❝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. ❞

Personal Responsibility & Tribal/Clan Membership

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. If you’re not sure your clanmates will abide by the rules you might want to reconsider your membership in that tribe/clan. And if you do not plan on playing on a specific server any more it is often best to also leave your tribe/clan there.

Admin Involvement in Tribal Affairs

Admins rarely get involved in intra-tribal(things going on inside a tribe) issues and or inter-tribal(things between two tribes) issues. UNLESS the altercations escalate to the stage of griefing or harassment.

Hacks & Exploits

Hacks and exploits are not tolerated. This is a BAN first, ask questions later mater.

Real-Money Trading (RMT) - GAME items, creatures, or services must only be exchanged for other items, creatures, or services within the game. Trading for real-world currency (real money) is not an accepted form of trading and is forthwith prohibited on our cluster.

Hacks are uses of third-party programs that inject code and modify aspects of the game to provide unfair advantage against other players. Utilizing such will lead to action taken against your access to our servers and flags added to your Steam ID.

Exploits are uses 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.

2. Infractions

We work on a "3 Strikes Method"

• Strike One: You and your Tribe/Clan get a warning. This can be Slept tames to Us removing the offending objects or tames. And a Sign informing you of the offense.

• Strike Two: We have to talk to you about a new rule or you broke the same one again. You can have creatures or buildings removed up to a Temp BAN. Temp Bans are 3 to 5 days without access to the servers.

• Strike Three: We are done, and you are Perm Banned.

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. We do not issue warnings ahead of Admin intervention. Hacking, or using Exploits and other situations deemed as extreme will be met with a permanent ban on the first offense.

Reporting Infractions

• Please contact us through our Discord, (https://discord.gg/RJVVraV), and fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

• Our team will get back to you using the private thread provided. Please make sure you provide the best information you can at the time of your report. This means relaying as much information as you can to help our team investigate. This includes, but is not limited to, screenshots, videos, timestamps, names of characters and guilds, and a good description of the issue. To get a "CCC" use the command /whatsmyccc in any Discord Channel. You will receive a message with instructions.

• We won’t be able to refund or return any loss of property caused by an infraction.

3. Harassment - Griefing

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

If you experience Harassment / Griefing / or observe inappropriate content in-game, please be aware that there are tools in some games to help you improve your experience such as muting. If your game does not have Muting, please fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

Harassment:

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 of racial, overtly sexual, hateful, illicit, Terrorist and criminal glorification, or of other nature DEEMED NOT PERMITED. This extends to character names, guild names, in-game signs, any other type of communication in Server.

Personal threats, doxing, stalking. Please also make sure to get in touch with the local authorities in such similar cases.

Our admin team considers all the above action types of Harassment . If reported to admins, you will receive up to a 5 day ban . Continued Harassment of this type will lead to a The PACK Gaming Server wide Ban.

GRIEFING.

Do not trespass into a base not your own, unless by accident. Nor visiting or hanging around in a base NOT yours. If someone asks you to leave, DO SO.

Do NOT, join a tribe or ask others to merge with you, for the sole purpose of stealing from the other player.

STEALING someone's Knocked out tribesman is GRIEFING. Do not steal any tribesman or passive tame that someone else is in the process converting, running in at the last moment before a player can collect a deterred tribesman, IS GRIEFING.

Our admin team considers all the above action types of GRIEFING . If reported to admins, you will receive The PACK Gaming Server wide Ban.

4. Auto-decay

REFRESHING OF TIMERS

It is the responsibility of the Player to make sure they refresh all timers on the servers they play on. Decay is nullified in Soulmask by using a Bonfire. And having a tribesman to upkeep the building.

How to maintain a bonfire

Bonfires stay lit with fuel, and there are six different types of materials that serve as fuel: Thatch, Branches, Bark, Logs, Hardwood, and Premium Hardwood. These materials differ severely in both how abundant they are in the world around you and how long they keep a bonfire going. The Pack maintains the server with a Decay rate that lasts x10 longer than normal, and decay is slowed by x10.

Each material provides a certain amount of fuel per 300 stack:

• Thatch: 14 minutes

• Branch: 1.28 hours

• Bark: 1.28 hours

• Log: 3.75 hours

• Hardwood: 35.45 hours

• Premium Hardwood: 35.45 hours

Bark, while it doesn’t provide the most fuel time, is one of the better options for fuel because unlike the other items, it isn’t used in many other recipes. Both types of Hardwood provide the most fuel time, but Hardwood is also a very important crafting material. Do not use Thatch in a bonfire; it provides almost nothing to the fuel time and it’s way more useful in other crafting recipes.

5. Server Building Restrictions

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, and thralls. If you wish to reign supreme on the map and hog all the resources and enemies, please consider single player.

Building Regulations:

All Building Regulations are per the whole tribe. This does not impact those players that play in a solo tribe.

Multiplayer Clans may have up to 6 Bonfires. Your clan can decide how they implement those bonfires. With the understanding they will need to have “FOB” bases in other Portal Regions.

Solo Tribes also have up to 6 Bonfires, but should attempt to make only one large main Base, with several small “FOB” bases in other Portal Regions.

No Massive constructions or over-use of memory intensive items leading to loss of performance both on client and server-side. Exp. - builds of over 2000 tiles or with more than 50 followers can be memory intensive.

No building within the RENDER range of another player's build. All claims must be at least 100 blocks apart.

No Blocking of content in the game, such as caves, dungeons, obelisks, resources, Mini and World Boss spawns, and other areas of the game such as lore notes, ghosts, and Mod's Lore areas. No Abuse of the claim system where blocks are placed for no other purpose than to prevent other players’ access to resources and building spots.

Core game respawn radius is now 20 foundation stones away.

Time will not be spent to carefully remove only offending pieces. All constructions belonging to the owner (player or clan) will be destroyed. There will be no refunds of materials or inventories.

7. Specific Rules:

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 ARK Glitches, Steam Cloud Errors, or Corrupted Players Clients.

Wipe's

Wipes are only done when a save is corrupted or a mod errors and requires a full server wipe.

The Pack Gaming will do their best to keep a backup copy of the server prior to any new update to lessen the chances of corruption and other errors. Soulmask is a mod free server.

Client Side Crashes

Any type of Client Side Crash can create a loss of saved data for the player. As well as Player deaths and loss of thralls and pets while you were handling the crash. These will not produce a death cache.

Server Crashes

Server Crashes will have a 5 to 14 min. Rollback to the save Prior to the restart, or the last save before the Restart / Crash. All Data collected between the Save time stamp and the restart / Crash will be erased.