One network. Clear rules.

One network works only when people treat each other normally.

• Respect players and Staff. Harassment, hate speech, racism, discrimination, threats, spam and persistent conflict-baiting are not allowed.
• Player, guild and public sign names must not be offensive, discriminatory or impersonate Staff.
• Friendly trash talk or a joke is not a problem by itself. Repeated behaviour meant to make someone else's game miserable is.

Your result should come from playing, not from tools or loopholes.

• Cheats, hacks, unauthorised tools, bots, gameplay automation, advantage-giving scripts and macros that perform complex actions for a player are prohibited.
• Do not manipulate the client, client-server communication, Anti-Cheat or any other protection.
• Finding a bug is not a violation. Deliberately using duplication, economy bugs, protected-base access, limit bypasses, damage bugs or PvP-protection bypasses is.
• Report exploits privately to Staff. Do not publish instructions or help others reproduce them.

The rulebook is not a guide to finding loopholes. Staff may act on conduct that clearly gives an unfair advantage or bypasses protection, even if that exact method is not written here word for word.

Build freely, but not at the expense of access or someone else's game.

• Do not block teleports, boss arenas, dungeons, key routes or access to important locations.
• Do not claim land only to deny it to others. Do not surround bases, seal them with your own structures or block expansion at a base boundary.
• Construction spam and builds made to harm world performance are prohibited.
• Staff may remove problematic structures. Rule-breaking builds do not come with a guaranteed refund.

PvE worlds are not a place to deliberately ruin another player's session.

• Do not deliberately lure bosses into another base, sabotage it, abuse guild permissions to destroy property or repeatedly block a player.
• Do not use base boundaries only to interfere with somebody else.
• Normal PvP, territory conflict and a legal HAVOC raid are not automatically griefing. HAVOC world rules apply there.

Trading is allowed. Scams and selling an advantage outside the game are not.

• You may trade items, resources and Pals. Deliberate scams, swapped agreed items, trade-interface abuse and Staff impersonation are prohibited.
• Staff does not guarantee a refund for a voluntarily accepted trade without evidence of a scam.
• Do not join a guild solely to steal from it, destroy resources, sabotage infrastructure or abuse granted permissions.
• Selling items, Pals, currency, bases, accounts, boosting or progression services for real money is prohibited unless SURVIVALIST explicitly approves an official form. SURVIVALIST is not Pay to Win.

Shared infrastructure is for playing, not for stress tests.

• Do not deliberately create lag, drop spam, excessive entities or AI load, and do not overload a server or the infrastructure.
• Builds designed to lag or crash the world or an opponent are prohibited.
• If the entire purpose of an experiment is to see whether the server survives it, you probably should not run it.

Worlds may automatically remove inactive bases and guilds to keep room for active players.

• Inactivity timing depends on the selected world. Check its current settings before taking a long break.
• A correctly performed automatic cleanup is not normally grounds for compensation.
• If you are leaving for a while, secure your base and resources under the rules of that world.

One network does not mean identical gameplay. Shared rules apply everywhere; the additions are listed below.

• Do not evade a penalty with an alternate account, a friend's account, a different platform or a different identifier. Ban evasion may lead to an expanded or permanent ban.
• You are responsible for people you give account, guild or base permissions to.
• Choose your world knowingly: PvP includes legal PvP, and harder worlds include the normal consequences of their mechanics.

A good report helps Staff respond quickly and fairly.

• Include the player name, world, approximate time and a short description. Add a screenshot or recording if you have one.
• You do not need to run your own investigation. Staff also has server logs and data.
• Report serious exploits privately. Do not publish them in public Discord channels.

Moderation should protect fair play, not punish normal gameplay.

• Staff may remove illegal structures and exploit-created items, and when possible roll back severe abuse.
• Depending on the situation, Staff may issue a warning, communication restriction, suspension or ban.
• Decisions use evidence, logs, context and violation history. Legal PvP and ordinary gameplay consequences are not automatic grounds for intervention.

There is no automatic "one violation, one fixed number of days". Severity and context matter.

• Possible actions include a warning, structure or item removal, communication restriction, temporary suspension and permanent ban.
• A penalty depends on severity, intent, previous violations and impact on players and the server.
• Obvious cheating, severe exploit abuse, cheat distribution, intentional server disruption, infrastructure attacks, repeated serious abuse and ban evasion can result in an immediate permanent ban.