MESA Server Rules
General Rules
  • The recommended language for communication is English.
  • Use common sense. Any attempts to bend or exploit rules is forbidden and will not be tolerated.
  • Breaking Wildcard's Code of Conduct in any way is forbidden.
  • No hacks, cheating, aimbotting, exploits, duping, meshing, undermeshing or lag attempts. This will result in a permanent cluster wide ban.
  • Account sharing is bannable.
  • HWID Spoofing & Mac Spoofing is bannable regardless of the reason for it.
  • Use of macros in any form is not allowed, autoclickers are only allowed in PVE Scenarios. Any form of AFK crafting is not allowed.
  • Autoclicker can be used to level dinos in PVE but cannot be used to craft electronics.
  • Admins are not obliged to give back any property or dinos lost due to any in-game situation, bugs, outages or roll backs.
  • Don't use your upload to store stuff, we don't replace any lost items in upload.
  • Impersonating the Staff Team is against the rules.
  • Naming or Raiding anything similar to “ADMIN DNT”, “ADMIN AUCTION”, “ADMIN RAID BASE” is bannable. Admin built events are only allowed to be destroyed ONLY AFTER it’s been announced.
  • Using racist and offensive names in game will result in an unnotified name change by the staff team.
  • Keep your insults/threats to within Ark. Anything crossing over the line to IRL is bannable. I.e. Threatening to Dox or DDOS a player.
  • Real Money Trading (RMT) is not allowed. Selling anything for IRL money is bannable.
  • Scamming is NOT enforced, you trade at your own risk. Do not trade for ARB, eggs, or anything that cannot be easily traded through the /trader commands on Trading Outpost.
  • Insiding is forbidden and will result in a ban.
  • Owners own ALL, choose your owner wisely. HOWEVER owners can inside in certain situations (admin discretion).
  • Having outside players or cycled members help the main tribe, including but not limited to buying things from F2 Shop, farming, crafting, breeding, readying dinos for the main tribe or anything PvP related, is not allowed. This is considered teaming.
  • Blocking drops with foundations is forbidden.
PVP Rules
  • No dinos in lava golem except velonasaurs.
  • You cannot block the lava golem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything.
  • You are not allowed to interact with people inside the no-tame bubbles on Mesa city with a tame.
  • Teaming with another tribe is not allowed, including open world PVP.
  • It is not allowed to place structures on a player to trap them (including yourself), you are allowed to do that to their dinos.
  • Using vacuum compartments to instantly kill ANY water dino is forbidden.
  • Max DPS dino on and OSD/vein is the same as the tribe limit for that cluster.
  • Example: 4 Man = 4 DPS Dinos
    Any dino that is being used to deal damage counts as a DPS dino
Raiding Rules
  • Raiding anything similar to “ADMIN DNT” is bannable.
  • Using /farm on dinos during PvP is forbidden.
  • Mesh biting or picking is forbidden.
  • Aggro dinos do not count (admins discretion)
  • Whistling Neutral/Aggressive on breeders or a LARGE amount of dinos during a defense or raid is not allowed.
  • Damaging structures through the mesh is forbidden, this includes using C4, grenades, dinos, or mek hitting though the mesh.
  • Tunneling is forbidden (building into bases to bypass defenders defenses).
  • You are allowed to tunnel with motorboat and platform builds.
  • Forcefield abuse is forbidden, you cannot toggle between Min and Max multiple times within a short time or use it to trap players or dinos.
  • Structure capping or C4 capping is forbidden. Structure capping is permitted on 100x.
  • Turret capping is allowed. Turret caps cannot be built into the mesh or placed in the mesh.
  • Max 5 dinos protecting entrance or choke points to a cave.
  • This rule does not include anything that doesn't body block or is stationed on the wall like stalker’s/velo’s.
  • Support dinos, such as Yuty, Mammoth, Shadowmanes and Daeodons, that are actively being used count towards the 5 limit.
  • Max of 5 unridden dinos allowed to be soaking at the same time.
  • Illegal dino builds are not allowed, 2 of the 5 sides need to be hittable.
  • You can not have billboards on 3 sides of a quetzals, 2 sides need to be fully open.
  • Helping or gifting tribe score is not allowed, this includes but is not limited to:
  • Turning off generators
  • Placing structures for own tribe to destroy or another to destroy
  • Throwing another tribe or your own to kill for score.
  • Anything related to popcorning while being raided is forbidden, this includes but is not limited to:
  • Dropping item caches
  • Rapidly throwing out bags
  • Excessively cryo sicking dinos.
  • This applies to both defending and attacking tribes.
  • Denying Tribe Score is forbidden including but not limited to the following:
  • Picking up structures from base while fobbed (you may only port out resources, your breeders and bp’s)
  • Demolishing or destroying own structures (includes both defender and attacking tribe)
  • Leaving the tribe
  • This rule is included for fortnites (admin discretion).
  • Decomping your base is NEVER allowed. If you wish to quit for the season, please leave your base intact.
  • Giving away your loot such as resources, BPs, dinos or anything related during an active FOB is NOT allowed. This includes giving it to another tribe that is in an active FOB.
  • 1 Thatch for a slot cap of raid dinos is not a valid trade. If you want to give them anything, do it during PvE. This is considered teaming.
  • Cycling is allowed when in a PVE environment meaning you are NOT PvPing, raiding or defending.
  • You cannot cycle if you have a FOB placed or have any FOBs placed on your base.
  • If a tribe slot is free since PvE, you are the slot open, you are allowed to invite.
  • You cannot kick a member to replace them for a new member during PvP.
  • On 100x - you are allowed to cycle during PvP
  • You cannot cycle temporary banned or caged members for any reason. They cannot purchase an unban while in PvP.
  • You are not allowed to merge tribes in PvP at all.
  • If you abandon your FOB with the purpose of cycling (the FOB needs to be unpowered and/or be picked up) you must wait 1 hour before coming back.

Counter Raiding Rules
  • It is not necessary to have a FOB to raid a tribe. However, if you die/get pushed off you need to follow the counter raiding rules.
  • Countering without a FOB is forbidden, this includes griefing such as tame sniping.
  • A third party is obligated to place a FOB within visual range of the ongoing attackers FOB or their surrounding spam.
  • Your FOB must match the effort level of the current attackers FOB, for your FOB to be considered one, it needs to have a minimum of 20 turrets.
  • You must be sufficiently prepared to DESTROY the attackers FOB and continue the raid on the defenders.
  • If the counter is successful, you must make a legitimate attempt to continue the raid.
  • If the counter fails, you must wait 1 hour before you can come back.
  • You must completely destroy the attackers FOB before looting or attacking the base.
  • Additionally, if one tribe is currently countering the raid, all other tribes must refrain from intervening until one of the involved tribes has been pushed off the raid.
  • If you abandon your fob with the purpose of cycling - the fob needs to be unpowered and/or picked up) you must wait 1 hour before coming back.
Caging Rules
  • Using Fjord TPs, ANYTHING from F2 Shop, exploiting or continuously reconnecting while handcuffed/laying in bed to bypass or getting out of being caged is forbidden. This also applies when a noglin is attached.
  • Cloud pulling while handcuffed is forbidden.
  • Open World caging is forbidden. You must have a FOB placed before caging.
  • Once a raid or defense has concluded you must free any caged members.
  • Cannot have caged players inside the forcefield.
  • If you cage an opposing tribes member during a raid or defense you cannot keep them caged in order to fob their main base unless their main base is on the SAME map (no cross map caging). If you are not actively raiding their main base within 30 Minutes of the original raid/defense you must let the players go.

Open World Turret Rules
  • Open world turrets are allowed at active PvP, farming and boss areas. You are required to pick it up when you are finished.
  • Farming outposts are allowed HOWEVER it needs to have at least 30 turrets. Otherwise, they need to be picked up after use.
  • Open world turrets are NOT allowed on OSD/veins. You may have them out of render of the OSD/vein.
Banned Building Locations
  • Do not build on player spawns, teleport spots, terminals or obelisks. Exception: The area is directly outside your cave and a part of your defenses.
  • Crystal Isles: Bee cave, underwater loot tunnels and snow drops
  • Gen 1: Volcano entrances & inside
  • Gen 2: Space biome entrances, not including vents
  • Ragnarok: Ice Queen, Golem, Desert Labyrinth
  • Valguero: Aberration biome entrances & underwater loot tunnels
  • Lost Island: Labyrinth Cave & underwater loot tunnels
  • Fjord: Poly cave, underwater drops, Bee cave & Yeti cave
  • Do not build in ratholes that require the following to enter:
  • Knock out
  • Grapples
  • Structures
  • Dinos
  • Tek Suits
  • Do not build in mesh spots, spots that have access to the mesh or terrain that looks stretched.
  • Building in or under the lava. Exception: Foundations in lava to give foundation support.
  • Illegal basespots will be instantly dev wiped with no questions asked or warning.

Other Building Rules
  • Behe gates and ocean platforms are not allowed to be placed inside caves.
  • Blocking drops with foundations is forbidden.
  • Blocking an entrance or a choke with an ORP is forbidden.
  • Vault dropping pillars is forbidden.
  • Max of 5 vaults when blocking an entrance/choke or when vault dropping structures.
  • This includes but is not limited to vault dropping generators or turret caps.
  • Purposefully placing meshed, stacked, overlapping or unbreakable structures/turrets is forbidden.
  • Excessively stacked & spammed structures will be AOE cleared regardless of what else in the area will be lost.
  • Any structures like gates, cliff plats or ocean plats need to be at least 30% visible outside of the mesh (admin discretion).
  • Building with pillars & fence supports are forbidden. HOWEVER this is allowed on 100x. If a snap point is broken and causes floating structures, all floating structures must be removed.
  • Floating structures are forbidden (except turrets in the middle of a giant hatchframe).
  • Snapping structures to the world border or cave ceiling is forbidden. It will be redgunned without warning.
  • No excessive spam. You may spam within ONE render distance of the cave entrance or your tower/fornite. Random ground turrets do NOT count
  • Unless actively fobbed - we expect you to fix it after FOB has been pushed off.
  • Spamming flexible cables or pipes at a cave entrance to cause FPS drops is forbidden.
  • Stacking dinos in each other is forbidden.
  • You may only have 3 forcefields within one render distance (forcefield spam is NOT allowed).
  • Kav vacuums must remain closed on at least 1 side in order for it to be able to get legitimately damaged/destroyed. Having all sides hidden is bannable.