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# Valheim PvE-P Server Rules

Rules last updated 2-1-2023

## 1. COMMON SENSE Guidelines

* The PACK Gaming has several different game platforms and servers. These come as a free service to all our players but come with certain rules and strict enforcement. 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.
* 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 will put a note in the Message of the Day on Specific servers when there are significant updates.

## 2. Personal Responsibility & Tribal/Clan Membership 

* <mark style="background-color:yellow;">**❝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. ❞**</mark>&#x20;
* 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.&#x20;
* 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. &#x20;

## 3. Infractions&#x20;

### **3A. We work on a "3 Strikes Method"**&#x20;

* **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.&#x20;
* **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.&#x20;
* **Strike Three:** We are done, and you are Perm Banned.&#x20;

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. \ <mark style="color:red;">**We do not issue warnings ahead of Admin intervention.**</mark> \
*<mark style="color:red;">**Hacking, or using Exploits and other situations deemed as extreme will be met with a permanent ban on the first offense.**</mark>*

### 3B. Reporting Infractions&#x20;

#### To report players, clans, or specific exploits on any of our servers&#x20;

* Please contact us through our Discor&#x64;**(**[**https://discord.gg/RJVVraV**](https://discord.gg/RJVVraV)**)**, and fill out a ticket in our Discord ***(***[***#Support-Tickets***](https://discord.com/channels/459473503939198978/728115631228190802/992571617110671476)***)***
* 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. &#x20;
* We won’t be able to refund or return any loss of property caused by an infraction.

## 4. Harassment and inappropriate content:

Please stick to a general set of guidelines of basic decency. Treat others as you would like to be treated. If you experience harassment 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 contact us through our Discor&#x64;**(**[**https://discord.gg/RJVVraV**](https://discord.gg/RJVVraV)**)**, and fill out a ticket in our Discord ***(***[***#Support-Tickets***](https://discord.com/channels/459473503939198978/728115631228190802/992571617110671476)***)***

* ***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.*&#x20;
* ***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.*
* ***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.*&#x20;
* ***Do NOT Kill other Player Characters.*** Currently player damage is toggled in your inventory screen with the **Straight/Crossed Swords**, so please don't attack each other if you have not mutually agreed to Aggression!&#x20;
* ***Do not take body bags not your own!*** If you are working in co-op with another player you may pick the items up for safekeeping, but give them back immediately upon the other players return to the area.&#x20;
* ***Do not shoot or take any creature kill, or interfere in a Boss Shrine Raid, that someone else is in the process OF killing, or doing*** , or One they point out that they are about to kill.&#x20;
* ***Do not KITE any Boss or high level creature into anyone else's build.*** Reports of such behavior will have an automatic 3 day server ban.&#x20;
* *<mark style="color:red;">**Our admin team considers all the above action types of Griefing or Harassment**</mark><mark style="color:red;">. If reported to admins you can be temporarily suspended for 5 days. Continued Griefing of this type will lead to a The PACK Gaming Server wide Ban.</mark>*

## 5. Hacks & Exploits&#x20;

#### <mark style="color:red;">Hacks and exploits are not tolerated. This is a BAN first, ask questions later mater.</mark>

<mark style="background-color:red;">**Real-Money Trading (RMT)**</mark> - 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.

<mark style="background-color:red;">**Hacks**</mark> 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.&#x20;

<mark style="background-color:red;">**Exploits**</mark> 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.&#x20;

## ‌6. Valheim Server Specific rules

<mark style="color:red;">**GAME PROGRESSION**</mark>**&#x20;-** Please be considerate of other players and do not rush through the Bosses. <mark style="color:red;">Game progression is tied to ALL players of a server. Not just you.</mark> Please see the below infographic for understanding.

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<mark style="color:red;">**LOOT FROM SINGLE PLAYER**</mark>**&#x20;-**&#x41;s the game allows for the use of loot from Single player transferred into our Server. Owners would like to ask you to please keep this withing your own guild please. We don't mind sharing between guilds but Lets attempt to let different guilds get to endgame at their pace. *<mark style="color:orange;">Thank you from the Owners.</mark>*

**We ask that players do** [**Yagluth**](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Yagluth) **on thier own worlds, and gather the items there for progress in the MISTLANDS, as defeating Yagluth unlocks** [**Fulings**](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Fuling) **to spawn at night in the** [**Meadows**](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Meadows)**,** [**Black Forest**](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Forest)**, and** [**Mountain**](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Mountain)**.**&#x20;

## 7. The PACK Gaming Server building restrictions: <a href="#id-5xgnufr4d26" id="id-5xgnufr4d26"></a>

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. If you wish to reign supreme on the map and hog all the resources and enemies, please consider single player. Some specific cases where we will act when made aware:

* *<mark style="color:orange;">**One MAIN Land Claim of no more than 100 x 100 foundations.**</mark>* Portals and such may be built in a building outside your claim block, no larger than a 40 x 40 block area.&#x20;
* *<mark style="color:orange;">**Up to 4 Outpost Claims of an area of 40 x 40**</mark>* *Foundations will be allowed.*&#x20;
* <mark style="color:orange;">**No Massive constructions**</mark> (lets not build the Tower of Babel so something like that) or over-use of memory intensive items leading to loss of performance both on client and server-side. *<mark style="color:orange;">Please don't overuse the hoe or pick, and create huge lag spots of disturbed terrain.</mark>*
* <mark style="color:orange;">**No Blocking of content in the game,**</mark> such as dungeons, obelisks, resources and other areas of the game. 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. Do not camp dungeons or the trader.

<mark style="color:red;">**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.**</mark>

## 8. Decay Timers: <a href="#id-9r4qlrqhta8x" id="id-9r4qlrqhta8x"></a>

**It is the responsibility of the Player to make sure they refresh all timers on the servers they play on.** If you do have a situation occur where you need help, please think about getting a tribe/clan mate. ALL ADMIN or OWNER claims are off limits. Decay is Different for Valheim. Please read here:

[Building | Valheim Wiki | Fandom](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Building#Decay)

[valheim.fandom.com](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Building#Decay)

## 9. Community Builds: <a href="#m5bxm6l7auaw" id="m5bxm6l7auaw"></a>

<mark style="color:orange;">**The Main PORTAL hub at the spawn point is a protected build.**</mark> Please do your best to aviod any Events happening there. If they do gather any broken resources up and place in chests left there for that purpose. Contact @Narco in Discord about repairs.

## **10. #PVE-P.** <a href="#fc3whqjuzsg8" id="fc3whqjuzsg8"></a>

‌**Player VS Environment - vs other Players with a Mutual Agreement to War**. ORP- Online Raid Protection which also applies to any build left on the map when the player is OFFLINE. We play as an alliance of several small tribes. With a Mutual Aggression Pact (See #Mutual Aggression Pact) Currently player damage is toggled in your inventory screen with the **Straight/Crossed Swords**, so please don't attack each other if you have ***not*** mutually agreed to Aggression!, (ORP).

#### **#MUTUAL AGGRESSION PACT:** <a href="#f2z754gtqlzx" id="f2z754gtqlzx"></a>

Mutual Aggression is where two or more clans have officially agreed to WAR. ***HOW WE ARE DOING THIS:*** Two or more tribes agree to WAR, they will make a written agreement in the Global or Discord channel. If in Global they need to SCREENSHOT the agreement and post in the DISCORD #valheim-chat Channel.

1. YOU MUST SCREENSHOT OR PASTE THIS INTO THE #Valheim-chat Channel in our Discord.
2. Your clans are allowed 24hours for war.
3. Clans will receive a 24 hour period of ORP where NO other Clan can propose war with you.

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