01 · Be Mature
Act like an adult. Harassment, trolling, drama baiting, entitlement, and intentionally disruptive behavior are not welcome.
02 · Respect Property
If it looks player-owned, leave it alone. Do not steal, raid, damage, move, hotwire, or interfere with another player’s property.
03 · Play Fair
No cheating, exploiting, loot monopolization, griefing, or abusing mechanics in ways that harm the server or other players.
In-Game
Server Rules
PvE Means PvE
- No griefing, intentional player killing, baiting zombies onto players, trapping players, blocking exits, or deliberately causing another player to die.
- No destroying, dismantling, burning, or vandalizing another player’s base, safehouse, vehicle, containers, or belongings.
- No stealing. If ownership is unclear, leave it alone and ask staff.
Cheating, Exploits & Abuse
- No cheats, injected tools, unauthorized admin functions, packet manipulation, duplication, exploit abuse, or intentionally bypassing server restrictions.
- Do not abuse bugs or broken mod mechanics for an advantage. Report serious exploits privately to staff.
- Attempting to impersonate staff, evade moderation, or interfere with server security may result in an immediate permanent ban.
Player Property & Vehicle Rules
- Do not take items from player bases, bodies, bags, stashes, or vehicles without clear permission.
- Do not move, use, hotwire, damage, strip, or salvage a vehicle that appears player-owned.
- Do not break windows on another player’s safehouse or vehicle.
- Maximum of 5 claimed vehicles per person. Trailers count as vehicles, so choose your claims wisely. Staff will conduct frequent safehouse checks to ensure this limit is being followed.
- Do not claim a vehicle unless you intend to take it. A claimed vehicle must be moved from its original spawn location. Claiming vehicles at their spawn simply to reserve them prevents other players from using them and ties up available vehicle claims.
- If you find a claimed vehicle that has not been moved from its original spawn location, open a ticket so staff can review it and unclaim it when appropriate.
- Do not strip vehicles and leave the remains behind. If you strip a vehicle for parts, you must fully salvage/remove it so a replacement vehicle can eventually respawn.
Claiming and leaving a vehicle at its original spawn location, or stripping a vehicle without fully salvaging it, will result in a 24-hour ban.
Loot Cycling & Public Containers
Loot cycling means removing or dumping unwanted items from containers for the purpose of forcing or speeding up a future loot respawn. Do not do it.
- Loot respawns automatically in eligible containers. You do not need to empty a container for it to work.
- Take what you actually want and leave unwanted items inside the container.
- Do not dump shelves, lockers, crates, gun-store stock, or other container contents onto floors, roads, parking lots, or nearby containers to “refresh” the loot.
- Do not pick up, remove, or take containers from any public loot location. This includes military crates, shelves, lockers, counters, storage containers, and similar world containers.
- Do not destroy containers at any public building or public loot location. This includes restaurants, junkyards, businesses, mechanic shops, military locations, police stations, stores, warehouses, and other shared locations.
- Mass-dumping items creates unnecessary world objects, hurts server performance, and is treated as exploitative behavior.
Destroying a container at a public building or public loot location will result in a 24-hour ban. Intentional loot cycling or removal of public loot containers will also result in staff action.
No Camping High-Loot Locations
Gun stores, military locations, police stations, research/military facilities, and other high-value public loot areas are shared locations. You may loot them; you may not monopolize them.
- Do not camp at or beside these locations waiting for loot to respawn.
- Do not use a vehicle, trailer, tent, safehouse, barricade, or other setup to reserve the location between respawns.
- If you park a truck or other vehicle at a gun store, military area, or similar high-loot location and log out, staff will delete the vehicle without warning.
- Do not claim these locations as a base, block access, or otherwise deny other players reasonable access.
Building & World Conduct
- Do not block public roads, bridges, important entrances, spawn areas, or major travel routes with structures or vehicles.
- Do not spam-build, place excessive objects, or intentionally create server load.
- Do not intentionally damage or ruin important public buildings.
- Do not build offensive symbols, hate imagery, or structures intended to harass or provoke other players.
Conduct & Communication
- Be mature and respectful. Do not harass, bully, target, threaten, or repeatedly antagonize other players.
- No slurs or hate speech. Offensive or intentionally disruptive usernames are prohibited.
- English is required in public in-game chat so staff can moderate effectively.
- Do not spam, flood chat, impersonate others, or intentionally spread false information to create panic or drama.
Discord
Community Rules
- Treat members and staff with respect. No harassment, bullying, discrimination, personal attacks, targeted pile-ons, or rage bait.
- No NSFW/sexually explicit content, graphic gore, malicious links, phishing, scams, or malware.
- No political campaigning or arguments in community channels.
- No advertising other communities, products, streams, or social accounts without staff approval.
- Use the correct channels and tickets. Do not spam staff DMs, mass-ping staff, or publicly argue moderation decisions.
- Your Discord name should match or clearly identify your in-game name. Staff must be able to identify whitelisted players.
- Do not evade mutes, kicks, bans, or other moderation actions.
Enforcement
Whitelist & Moderation Policy
Whitelisted access is conditional on following the rules and behaving appropriately within the community. Staff are not required to issue repeated warnings before acting.
- Minor first-time issues may receive a warning or temporary punishment at staff discretion.
- Repeated rule violations, deliberate bad-faith behavior, griefing, theft, exploit abuse, cheating, security threats, or severe harassment may result in immediate removal from the whitelist or a permanent ban.
- Attempts to evade moderation using alternate accounts, names, or other methods may result in all associated accounts being removed.
- Bans are final. Relentless Dawn does not accept ban appeals.
Staff may consider context and evidence when determining enforcement. The absence of an exact example from this page does not make clearly harmful or disruptive conduct acceptable.
Mature players. Cooperative PvE. Respect the world and the people in it.
If you cannot follow that standard, Relentless Dawn is not the community for you.