Rules

Community Guidelines

-Be respectful of your fellow community members. Hate speech, racism, harassment, and threats in general,  as well as any other form of overly offensive/obscene/abusive language directed at other players will result in an instant ban. 

-Toxic behavior will not be tolerated. This includes habitual bickering, complaining, insults, and any other disruptive behavior that prevents other community members from enjoying their experience on these servers. 

In-Game Guidelines

-Sleeping bags, beds on single foundations, taming pens and pillars/foundations used to reserve base locations will be demolished when found laying around. Pack in, pack out -- please help keep our shared space clean!

 -Do not intentionally pick up players or their dinos without permission. Do not take items from players without their permission or intentionally damage their characters, bases, or tames (ex. drowning bodies in water to loot them or leading a wild dino into a base to break structures). Doing so is considered griefing, is reprehensible on a PVE server, and will result in an instant ban.

-Tamed creatures must be kept near their tribe’s base. If you find another tribe’s tame in the wild, please screenshot with coordinates and map name and submit to the #lost-and-found channel in the Dodo Empire Discord. Owners have at least 7 days to pick it up or make arrangements before it is considered a surrendered pet and finds itself in the shelter! Setting tames to wander in the wild is prohibited. Wandering and aggressive tames will be snatched up and put on the refrigerator so no one gets to play with them.

Base Building Guidelines

-Bases are limited to 10,000 structures. Violations will be subject to deletion after 10 days of notice given. Each tribe may have 1 large build, up to 10,000 structures, and 3 additional small builds under 5,000 structures per map. Total tribe structure count allowed per map: 25,000 structures. If you're concerned about reaching the limit, contact Mags. A good rule of thumb is how long it takes to load into/teleport to and from your base. If you experience lag, chances are the entire server is lagging to load up your build and it is too big. (Pro-tip: Utilize the large walls available in S+ and CKF benches for lower build count and higher efficiency!)

-Your base must be fully rendered at medium render distance when standing at the center. If you can see another tribe’s base at medium render distance, you are building too close and should obtain permission from that tribe. 

-If you must be offline for an extended period of time and would like to keep your structures and tames, please message Mags with details of your expected absence as soon as possible. An absence of up 30 days without notice is fine, but please reach out to ensure your items aren't up for deletion. 

-Do not block the following locations: important resource spawns (rich resource nodes, charge nodes, explorer notes, etc.), artifact caves, obelisks, and ALL spawn points. If your base is built near a pathway or spawn point, an unlocked and publicly accessible way through must be clearly marked. If a player spawns at a spawn point and finds themselves stuck in your base, the surrounding structures will be destroyed to clear the spawn point without notice. 

-You may build up to 5 S+ teleporter locations per map. Please limit these waystations to less than 50 structures. These will not count toward your tribe's total structure count. Please be considerate when placing your teleporters and set any protective shields surrounding your public teleporters to allow all players inside. If these locations are interfering with resource respawn or trapping players at spawn/public teleporter points, they will be removed.