DayZERO Servers

Server Rules

TLDR Version

• No cheating, hacking, glitching or duping.
• No combat logging.
• No using alts or pseudo-alts to rejoin combat.
• No loot cycling.
• No stream sniping or meta.
• No hateful conduct.

Hacking and Cheating

Obviously we do not allow any hacking, cheating, abuse of game glitches, or intentional item “duping” on our server. Zero tolerance policy.

Combat Rules

Do not “combat log”. If you are in a combat situation with another player you must play it out. Any time you log out to avoid death from another player - whether they know for sure you are there or not - that is combat logging. It is not required that you be directly interacted with for it to be considered a combat log.

You must win the fight, successfully escape, negotiate, suicide, or hold out until a server restart. Players are not obligated to rejoin a server after a restart. If you escape a fight, be very sure that you’ve actually escaped. You need to have moved fairly far away and not have been detected or shot at for at least 10 minutes.

Do not use server restarts for combat advantage, whether active combat or to ambush someone you've been watching or following. You need to disengage until all parties have successfully rejoined the server and gotten their bearings. Keep in mind that this can sometimes take 5 minutes or longer for everyone to load in during high population hours. Killing someone who is loading in right after a server restart is a violation of this rule.

Bases and Raiding

Do not build bases in military or map-specific quest related areas. Only one ground vehicle and one helicopter locked behind walls per squad. No restrictions on raiding hours. Boosting over walls through the use of objects, other players, watchtowers, or vehicles is allowed. Note that walls can be built double height with our build anywhere settings to counter this. Boosting with garden plots or other glitches of game mechanics is not allowed.

Do not build inward-facing walls to lock someone in their base and troll them - just raid the base or move on. Legitimate takeover of bases (with rebuilt outward-facing gates and new locks) is allowed. This is a risk anyone takes who logs out inside their base. Use tools or weapons to destroy the posts on the soft side of the gate to escape or F11.

Alternate Accounts and Pseudo-Alts

Alternate accounts (“alts”) are allowed with a few caveats. Do not use alternate accounts to rejoin a previous fight or get revenge. Do not use alternate accounts for “recon” during an ongoing fight.

Psuedo-alts are when a friend logs in on their nearby account to get a revenge kill or "join" (re-join) a fight on your behalf. This is effectively the same thing as if you logged in on your friend's account yourself or another of your nearby alts.

Stream Sniping and Metagaming

We want this to be a place where streamers can play without their gameplay experience altered or ruined. Do not utilize information from someone’s stream to help them, avoid them, meet up with them, find their stash, or attack them. For the avoidance of all doubt, leave a stream at least 15 minutes prior to joining the server. Under no circumstances should you be actively watching someone’s stream while playing on our server at the same time.

Do not post live meta information in the discord. Please use generic phrasing or wait long enough for the information to be “stale” as to not be useful to anyone still in game.

Loot Cycling

Do not abuse the game mechanics to force the cycling of loot. Do not pick up and move large quantities of items with the express purpose of forcing new items to spawn there. Looting an area, logging out, and rejoining during a genuine later play session is allowed.

Third Party VoIP and In-Game VoIP

The use of third party VoIP applications such as Discord and TeamSpeak is allowed. We think of this as the simulation of having in-game radio coms. However, we highly encourage the use of in-game VoIP to enhance the immersive experience for everyone on the server. We have a high rate of personal radio spawns which have unlimited broadcast range to give “randoms” equal footing with Discord squads.

Do not use in-game VoIP to spam irritating audio sounds or music. The use of VoIP audio that is intended to be annoying and frustrate players, or to obfuscate sounds for combat advantage is not allowed.

Behavior Rules

Please be respectful to others and use common sense. If it is something that would get you banned on Twitch or other DayZ community discords, it will probably get you banned here. Hostile roleplay in-game is allowed and encouraged, but don’t take it too far. Good natured rivalry is fun and encouraged, but constant e-drama in the discord is something we want to avoid.

Do not discuss politics, religion, or other divisive social issues in the public discord chat. Any discord chat or in-game racism, sexism, targeted harassment, hateful conduct, doxxing or attempted doxxing will not be tolerated.