General:

• This is a friendly server, don’t be a dick to others.

• No harassment, racism, prejudice, bigotry, offensive material, use of hate groups, etc. This includes in voice or text; signs; notes; images; or in the name of your clan/clan description; your in-game name; or your Discord name.

• All signs must be appropriate both in public and in private. Use of inappropriate signs may lead to a ban.

• No cheating or hacking.

• No griefing – some but not all examples include: No placing unwanted items on or around players’ bases/structures; No blocking doorways; No dropping landmines or bear traps outside of your base; No trap bases in Frontier Zones or in claimed / unclaimed land; No external turrets or aiming outside; No code raiding or changing codes, etc.

• No promoting other Discords or Rust servers.

• Attempting to skirt the rules or not abiding by spirit of the server, will lead to a warning or ban.

• Players harassing or driving away other community members and/or staff may be warned or banned. We do not condone harassment here.

• Tool cupboard and all loot must be accessible by doors and not hidden behind walls. Players should never use the remove tool to hide items or use during war.

• For land owning clans, all loot must be stored in claimed land in marked clan bases.

• Despawning loot to deny opponents their rewards is not allowed. This also includes other methods of denying people getting loot (example: giving away all loot).

• Walls can be built around a players base only, not around whole claims or monuments.

• To prevent being raided, avoid building on land borders, if you wish to raid a base on a border, consult an admin or risk being charged for illegal raiding.

• Stirring up drama can lead to an permanent ban with no warning. This is a Rust server and not a social media platform. If you want drama, look for an outlet elsewhere. You should never be doing something intentionally to hurt the community and the server.

• Report evidence and concerns of community members and/or staff to server owners at: rust.empires.online@gmail.com

KOS & PVP Zones:

• Non-PVP landmarks: supermarkets, warehouses, lighthouses, and gas stations are not PVP zones.

• PVP zones: PVP can occur at airdrops, downed helis and chinooks, marked monuments, No Man’s Land, any clan land claims marked as KOS/PVP, and during wars.

• PVP only occurs in the monument – do not attack from across roads or from structures outside of the monument

• For heli, airdrop, and chinook: these are pvp but only once the reward is lootable on the ground. Once you have the loot, you need to return to base and only kill people going after loot. For people hunting the loot, you can only attack if you see if the other player looted.

• Players are allowed to defend their own, a friends, or a clan-mates house if someone is inside of the base attempting to rob/steal.

• For war, KOS begins once the war has been declared. You must verify it is your enemy before open firing to avoid innocents being killed. Even during war, no fighting in cities, frontiers, or their surrounding areas.

• During raids outside of war/NML, attackers are not allowed to KOS defenders until fired on. Defenders can decide to engage or not.

• Warning shots in non-PVP areas are not allowed. People don’t know if you are a bad shot or intentionally missing.

• Sleepers may be killed if they are within looting range (no shooting sleepers from outside houses).

RolePlaying (RP):

• Harassment and racism are not accepted in RP.

• Don’t make offensive “RP” with hate groups

• RP isn’t required, but encouraged. Please respect other groups’ RP.

Make a Clan:

• Minimum of 2 players, maximum of 7 players

• All clan members must wear the clan tag in-game via clan plugin.

Map Zones:

• Frontier Zones:

  • Frontier zones are designed for new players where they can build without fear of being raided.

  • Once a player joins a clan, they must leave this zone. Admins will routinely check this zone and remove houses of people who have joined clans.

  • Do not use a supply signal in the Frontier zone.

  • Do not fight or tag a heli in any Frontier zone. Luring the heli into a Frontier zone is considered griefing.

• No Man’s Land:

  • Players can PVP anyone and raid any bases inside of No Man’s Land.

  • Trap bases are only allowed in No Man’s Land (trap bases in unclaimed, claimed, or Frontier Zones are concerned griefing and not allowed).

• Cities:

  • 1 city in each of the 4 quadrants will get a train.

  • Raiding/PVP is not allowed in cities.

  • Members of clans can own shops/buildings inside of the city, but those cannot be used for storing clan or individual loot. The admins can destroy the loot if it isn’t removed.

  • Members of the city are allowed to defend the city with force from robbery attempts.

  • Do not use a supply signal in any city claims.

  • Do not fight or tag a heli in any city claim. Luring the heli into a city claim is considered griefing.

Raiding:

• You can destroy existing twig structures anytime (you cannot attack structures while they are being built, that is considered griefing.) You cannot break things inside of the house (locked chests, turrets, etc).

• You can raid bases on unclaimed land without warning. Except for towns and unclaimed Roleplay Claims, and if the land becomes unclaimed due to an eviction at war, they must wait 24 hours.

• You can raid bases that are built on your claimed property. Except for towns. If you claimed land with previous inhabitants, you must give them 24 hours to relocate. Post in #evictions channel in Discord for the 24 hour notice.

• These are still NOT KOS zones. Wandering players are not allowed to engage raiders. Home owners may defend themselves. Raiders may attack anyone attempting to enter the base (close quarters, not sniping people from far away that MIGHT be coming to raid the base.)

Land Claiming:

• Standard Land Claims: available for clans of 2 – 7 players (tagged in-game prior to making a land claim). Standard Land Claim clans can war other Standard Land Claim clans.

• Roleplay Land Claim: available for solo players or clans of 2-7 players (tagged in-game prior to making a land claim). Roleplay Land Claim are for solo players or clans interested in roleplay. Roleplay Land Claim players cannot war or be warred.

• City Claim: available for clans of 2 – 7 players (tagged in-game prior to making a land claim). A clan can make 2 land claims over the 3 week period and identify it as a City claim. City claim clans cannot join wars in any capacity or be used as a proxy group for a pvp clan.

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War Rules:

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Misc Rules:

• Reports and Bans:

  • If you have concerns to report, submit the evidence/video recording of the event to the server owners at rust.empires.online@gmail.com.

  • If you are banned and have evidence to support your innocence or want to appeal your ban, submit your evidence and claim to rust.empires.online@gmail.com.

  • If you have evidence of an admin or mod harassing, cheating/hacking, kosing, etc., send your report and evidence to the server owners at rust.empires.online@gmail.com.

  • Do not spam other channels – submit your evidence and reach out to the server owners.