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SERVER RULES

SECTION 01

GENERAL SERVER RULES

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  • [01] No hacking, cheating or intentional exploitation of bugs. Do not attempt to duplicate items in the server.
  • [02] Do not take anything that is not yours from the floor at the traders, bases, tents, vehicles or body bags.
  • [03] Do not enter another player's base or vehicle without permission from the owner of the base or vehicle.
  • [04] No racism, hate speech, swearing or promotion of other servers in any chat channel or in-game voice comms.
  • [05] Respect all other players.
  • [06] Global chat must be in English. You may use a language of your choice in the local chat or voice comms.
  • [07] No vehicles of any type to be taken, driven or flown into trader areas.
  • [08] No broadcasting of music or spam over in game radios or chat. Features added by staff that play music are permitted.
  • [09] Do not glitch your character, items or vehicles inside of any players' bases.
  • [10] Follow the instructions of the server staff if you are asked to stop doing something that is not mentioned in these rules. Abuse or rudeness towards staff will not be tolerated.
SECTION 02

BASE BUILDING RULES

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  • [01] Territory flags will come down over 14 days if not kept raised. If it hits the bottom, the base and contents de-spawn.
  • [02] Only 1 active base flag is allowed per player.
  • [03] Maximum of 4 players per flag.
  • [04] Do not build a base within 1200m of the main trader or 900m from any other trader.
  • [05] Do not build a base within 500m of any major military area or gas zone (military areas are deemed to have military loot and at least 2 military buildings or tents).
  • [06] Do not build at any map features like castles, underground complexes, airfields, racetracks, map marked POIs, etc.
  • [07] Do not block roads, bridges, wells, or access routes. Do not build in police stations, fire stations, gas stations, military buildings, or hospitals.
  • [08] Please avoid building close to main roads. (If you are unsure, look at the map asset vanilla DayZ buildings and dont place your base any closer to the road then these buildings are).
  • [09] Maximum stacking of vanilla towers is 2, and no more than 6 towers per base territory.
  • [10] BBP base size limit is 3x3x2, or any layout not exceeding 18 large floor tiles total. For tile counting: 2 large triangle pieces or 4 small triangle pieces count as 1 large floor tile.
  • [11] No base structure to exceed 4 stories without prior permission from the staff team.
  • [12] Do not use BBP for perimeter fencing (BBP gate is permitted; vanilla perimeter fencing is permitted but must not be more than 3 panels away from your base and no more than 1 panel high).
  • [13] No more than 2 cabins per territory (solo players may have 1 cabin OR a BBP structure, not both).
  • [14] No more than 2 tents per player at a base territory (max 4 tents per territory if shared).
  • [15] No more than 20 storage items in total per territory (lockers, chests, barrels, wardrobes, safes, crates, sofas, beds, etc.). This does not include tents or TOFU storage barrels.
  • [16] No more than 20 TOFU virtual storage barrels per base territory.
  • [17] No more than 4 mannequins per base territory.
  • [18] No more than 1 helipad per base territory.
  • [19] No more than 2 solar panels per base territory.
  • [20] No more than 8 drying posts per territory.
  • [21] No more than 5 growing sites (greenhouses, planters, growing plots) per player (max 10 if shared). No more than 2 greenhouses per player (max 4 if shared, including map greenhouses).
  • [22] No more than 4 flood lights per territory (generator or solar). These MUST be switched off during the daytime or when logged off.
  • [23] No camo nets or barbed wire to be used on base fences or building walls.
  • [24] No floating bases; bases must be structurally feasible.
SECTION 03

VEHICLE RULES

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  • [01] Helicopters must use helipads at traders or land outside of the trader safe zone.
  • [02] All air and ground vehicles MUST be parked in the Virtual Garage when not active or logged into the game (excluding restarts/updates). Failure to do so results in vehicle impoundment (release fee applies).
  • [03] A player is only permitted to have 1 vehicle from their garage on the map at any one time.
  • [04] Vehicles in breach of server rules will be deleted. Deleted vehicles will not be replaced.
  • [05] There is no limit to the number of vehicles you can own other than the garage limit.
  • [06] Do not park helicopters in car parks or cars on helipads unless it is an area with only one parking spot.
  • [07] No vehicles of any type to be taken, driven or flown into trader areas.
SECTION 04

COMBAT RULES

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  • [01] Combat includes shooting, hitting, poisoning, mines, traps or any action that reduces a players hitpoints.
  • [02] If you are caught doing so, you risk a permanent public game ban.
  • [03] Our servers are PvE (Player vs environment) and all kills are immediately reported by our killbot to staff.
SECTION 05

COMPENSATION RULES

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We will compensate you with in game currency and/or replacement game items for items lost due to server or game issues. Although we don't allow theft on our PvE servers we operate open public servers and as such from time to time we will have players join who don't follow our server rules. You are expected to take reasonable precautions to keep your vehicles/gear/loot secure, we have provided code locks for your bases, lockers and tents and have the Much Car Key mod on so that you can lock and secure your vehicles.

We may ask for proof like a screenshot or video clip that supports your claim and would highly recommend you use a service like GeForce Experience's ShadowPlay, OBS or Bandicam that can keep a rolling recording of your last 5 minutes of gameplay.

BASES

Players are expected to take all reasonable precautions to secure their items, raiding is disabled on our PvE servers so bases can't be raided or broken into.

We will replace your items if:
  • A player glitches into your base by exploiting game mechanics or by using third party code (cheats) to gain access.
  • A base is damaged through no fault of your own and the damage compromises the security measures you had in place.
  • A server or game issue results in loses.
We will NOT replace your items if:
  • A base is left unsecured without code locks or walls placed to prevent access.
  • A base uses floor kits as roofs and the floor has been dismantled to gain entry.
  • A base or tent is accidentally left open or unlocked.
  • Items are taken by a team mate or someone who you have allowed access to your base.
  • Items left outside of your base that are readily accessible by any other player.
  • Items left inside of tents that are not stored in the tents inventory, e.g. - barrels, workbenches or storage crates must not be left on the floor inside a tent as they are accessible from outside of the tent, lockers may be placed in tents but must have a code lock fitted to the locker to secure them.

VEHICLES

We will not replace any inventory contents of lost/stolen vehicles other than barrels, chests, crates and attached storage items which we can verify, unless proof such as screenshots or video clips showing the claimed items in the vehicle inventory is presented, any provided proof must have been recorded on the day of the claim and must show the items in the vehicles inventory.

We will replace your vehicle if:
  • A vehicle is destroyed by going into water
  • A vehicle is damaged and de-spawns
  • A vehicle moves outside of the map boundary and de-spawns
  • A vehicle glitches through the map
  • A vehicle is stolen - In this case we will try and recover the vehicle if possible or replace the vehicle if it has been sold. (If a vehicle is stolen due to it being left unlocked and unattended, except in cases where the player has died or a server crash/restart, we reserve the right to refuse compensation).
We will NOT replace your vehicle if
  • You have not assigned a key to your vehicle.
  • A vehicle is deemed to have been deliberately damaged by gunfire or drowning.
  • A vehicle is stolen as a result of being left unattended and unlocked where the player had opportunity to lock and secure the vehicle.
  • A vehicle is taken by a team mate and ownership is disputed.
  • A player continues to perform actions that result in the loss of a vehicle after being advised by staff to cease such actions.
  • A vehicle has been impounded and subsequently deleted for repeated "left out on the map" violations.

PLAYER ITEMS

We will replace your items if:
  • A loss results from a game or server issue such as a crash or rollback.
  • A player steals from you by tieing you up, knocking you unconscious or killing you to access your inventory.
  • A player steals from your body bag whilst you are attempting to get back to it.
  • A body bag is not created upon your death or is created out of bounds and de-spawns.
We will NOT replace items if:
  • A loss is a result of negligence.
  • Reasonable care has not been taken to safeguard your items.
  • Items are left unattended on the floor and you have moved away from them.
  • Loses are a result of actions taken within 2 minutes prior to a restart, you should be logging off to create a save.

OTHER

  • Losses caused by third parties removing or updating their mods or as a result of Bohemia updateing the core game.
  • In game losses as a result of bugs with a particular mod.
  • We accept no liability for loses caused as a result of mod authors removing, changing or updating their mods in the Steam workshop, in these instances we will do whatever we can to mitigate any issues caused but cannot gaurentee this as these update are usually un-announced and entirely out of our control. When Bohemia update the core game and Chernarus/Livonia mission files, we will announce the update accordingly, in the cases of hotfixes these are generally not announced by Bohemia and again we take no liability for losses caused in the event of this happening.
  • All offers of compensation are made in good faith and server staff may deny compensation on a case by case basis should they believe that the loss is partly or in full the responsibility of the player or been caused as a result of attempting to exploit the server or it's mods. Compensation is strictly limited to in game items and in game currency of the server you are playing on. All decisions about compensation made by staff are final, you will be told why if a claim is denied.
SECTION 06

LOOT CYCLING RULES

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Loot cycling is defined as the act of collecting loot with the intention of disposing of it for the purpose of getting the loot table to generate more/better loot than what has been collected.

In extreme cases a player will collect every item of loot from a location and then dump it, going back to the same location to collect new valuable loot that has spawned.

It is all about your intentions when looting. If you intend to use or sell the loot to a trader, then this is acceptable; you may later decide to throw away a few low value items to make space or other things, and this is fine, normal play.

If you are loot cycling then you KNOW you are doing it, it doesn't happen by accident.

HOW DO WE DETECT LOOT CYCLING?

  • Admins are active at watching players, especially in hotspot areas like military and oil rigs; we also have a log system in place that alerts us when a player is detected offloading a quantity of loot other than by selling at the traders.
  • Everything you do in DayZ is logged and very easy to check, you can't just say "It wasn't me" and hope to get away with it. Nobody playing fairly goes through an area like a human vacuum cleaner, collecting every single item—beanie hats and 30 pistol flashlights etc.—puts them in a bag and goes and dumps it if they are not loot cycling.

CONSEQUENCES

  • If you are found to be loot cycling then you will get a 7 day ban for the first offense; a second offense will result in a permanent ban from all Archon servers and you will be added to the community shared ban lists.
  • Ignorance of the rules is not a defense; saying "I didn't know it was not allowed" will not be accepted as a reasonable excuse.
  • It is common on all DayZ servers for the "no loot cycling" rule to be in place; this is not unique to Archon.
  • The decisions made by senior staff are final and not negotiable.

WHY WE DON'T ALLOW LOOT CYCLING

  • Firstly, loot cycling forces the loot engine to go into overdrive in a way that it is not intended; this has a significant effect on server performance.
  • Secondly, it's cheating—gaining an advantage from exploiting a game mechanic for your own personal gain.
  • Thirdly, it limits the ability for other players to loot an area if a group is camping it and loot cycling.
  • Archon has a fantastic, friendly community of players that mostly abide by the few rules we have; there is no room on our servers for players who wish to abuse that.
VERSION: 1.0 // LAST UPDATED: May 24, 2026