Rules

By joining Legacy ARK you agree to these rules. Staff have the final say, and punishments range from a warning to a wipe or a permanent ban depending on how serious it is. Not knowing a rule is not an excuse.

1. General

• Respect players and staff. No racism, hate speech, threats, doxxing or harassment, in game or in Discord.
• No offensive tribe, player, dino or structure names.
• Staff decisions are final. If you disagree, open a ticket in #tickets in the Discord instead of arguing in public.
• Report bugs and rule breaks through #tickets in the Discord with proof (screenshots or clips).

2. Tribe & Ownership

• Tribes are 4 players max, and that includes anyone helping you. Rotating members in and out to get around the limit counts as going over.
• No alliances, formal or informal. No teaming, shared bases or coordinated raids with another tribe.
• Tribe slots have a 24-hour cooldown. When a member leaves or is kicked, that slot can't be refilled for 24 hours, and the player who left can't rejoin or fight alongside that tribe for 24 hours.
• Only one tribe per player. No second tribes or alt tribes used to store, scout or hold land.

3. Cheating & Exploits

• No hacks, scripts, macros that play for you, or third-party programs that give an advantage. BattlEye is on, and anything it misses is still a ban if staff catch it.
• No meshing, duping, under-mesh building or using map holes.
• Don't abuse bugs. If you find one, report it in #tickets in the Discord. Using a known bug to gain an advantage is treated the same as cheating.

4. Trading & Accounts

• Trades are at your own risk. Staff won't refund scams, so use a trusted middle-player or trade in pieces.
• No selling in-game items, dinos or accounts for real money.
• No account sharing. Each Steam account is one player.
• Shop points can't be traded for real money.

5. PvP & Raiding

• PvP is on 24/7. Raiding, wiping and offline raids are all allowed.
• No spawn camping at beaches or the obelisks.
• No blocking OSDs, element veins, obelisks, artifact caves or boss arenas with structures or dinos.
• Once a raid is done, don't grief-wipe: you can take loot and destroy defenses, but don't stay to trap or spawn-kill the tribe.

6. Loot

• No popcorning loot. Take it or leave it, but don't destroy another tribe's items just to deny them.
• No hiding loot in hidden or unraidable spots.
• Supply drops, OSDs and veins belong to whoever claims them first. No griefing or blocking a claim in progress.

7. Building

• No building in or blocking caves, artifact paths, obelisks, boss arenas, OSD or vein spots, or major resource spots like metal mountains and the volcano.
• No pillar or foundation spam to claim land. Keep spam to around your base.
• No unraidable bases: every base must be reachable and raidable by normal ARK means (no meshing, no building inside the map).
• Abandoned bases may be cleaned up by staff after long inactivity.

8. Combat Restrictions

• No turret questing beyond the limit: no more than 5 auto turrets on a Quetzal.
• No turrets on any other dino: flyers, land or water.
• No cryopod spam in fights beyond normal use, and no using game glitches to dodge damage.

9. Discord Rules

• Keep chat respectful. No spam, NSFW content, or self-promotion of other servers.
• Use the right channels. Support goes in #tickets in the Discord and recruiting goes in #recruitment.
• Don't ping staff or post screenshots of private tickets.
• Your Discord name should match or clearly link to your in-game name.

Rules may be updated over the wipe. Changes are posted in #announcements in the Discord.

Questions? Ask in the Discord.