RETRO DAYZ server rules
Important: Penalties are issued at the administration’s discretion. Not knowing the rules does not remove responsibility.
When you open a ticket for the administration, provide all necessary information in as much detail as possible, including the place and time of the incident.
1. General rules
Cheats and prohibited software are forbidden, including aimbot, wallhack, ESP and similar tools.Penalty: Permanent ban.
If any of your accounts is banned on another project, open a support ticket before playing here.Penalty: Ban until the ticket is reviewed / at administration’s discretion.
Third-party software that creates an advantage, including NVIDIA Inspector and equivalents, is forbidden.Penalty: Permanent ban.
Game-file modifications that create an advantage are forbidden. Normal settings in Documents\DayZ (graphics, controls, sound and interface) are allowed when they provide no gameplay advantage.Penalty: Permanent ban.
Buying or selling in-game items, loot, currency or accounts for real money is forbidden.Penalty: Permanent ban for every involved account.
Multiple accounts are forbidden.Penalty: Permanent ban for every account.
If you spawn or log in inside another player’s base unintentionally (for example, you logged out in an empty house and a base was built there overnight), open a ticket in the project Discord or on the Lolka server with the exact location. Do not take foreign loot, dismantle structures, or kill the owners while they are online.Penalty: Ban from 3 days up to permanent / at administration’s discretion.
If a server restart leaves you on foreign territory (everything fenced by players around a base, and everything inside that perimeter), you must join within 10 minutes and either continue playing or leave the territory before ending your session. A required reconnect after a server restart is not a violation.Penalty: At administration’s discretion.
Intentionally relogging on foreign territory to keep loot or gain an advantage is forbidden.Penalty: Ban from 3 days.
Leaving the game within 5 minutes after taking damage from another player or dealing damage to a player is forbidden.Penalty: Ban from 1 day.
Advertising other projects and copying names or tags used by administrators or players is forbidden.Penalty: Ban from 1 day / at administration’s discretion.
Insults involving close relatives, racism, ethnic hatred and political arguments are forbidden.Penalty: One-day game ban and a Discord ban.
Invite players to your party at your own risk. The administration is not responsible for passwords or loot shared with invited players.Informational — no penalty applies.
Stream sniping—using a broadcast to locate a player—is forbidden.Penalty: Ban for seven days or longer.
Exploiting loopholes in the written rules is forbidden.Penalty: At administration’s discretion.
Administration may decide situations not explicitly covered by these rules. In disputes the administration’s decision is final.Informational — no penalty applies.
Nazi or political GIFs, videos and images are forbidden.Penalty: Ban from 1 day up to permanent / at administration’s discretion.
2. Conduct
Sharing or threatening to share private information without the owner’s consent, including doxing and swatting, is forbidden.Penalty: Permanent ban.
Offensive names and deliberately unreadable random names are forbidden.Penalty: Ban from one day up to permanent.
Deceiving the administration is forbidden.Penalty: Ban from seven days up to permanent.
3. Building rules
Floating structures without support are forbidden. A bridge between two controlled buildings is allowed, but doors may only be placed at its beginning and end. Maximum bridge size: five structures long and two wide.Penalty: Removal of structures / at administration’s discretion.
Placing tents or shelters inside walls is forbidden.Penalty: Removal of structures.
Static doors must remain freely operable without special manipulation. Invalid doors may be removed; an invalid base normally receives 24 hours to correct its construction.Penalty: Removal of structures; 24 hours to fix.
Building sheds inside buildings, structures or towers is forbidden.Penalty: Removal of structures.
Water pumps, military facilities and police stations may not be blocked or built over.Penalty: Removal of structures / at administration’s discretion.
Every base must have at least one entrance and an unobstructed route to every loot room.Penalty: Removal of invalid structures.
Structures are forbidden on main roads and military facilities. Where the server placement script allows a hologram and no other rule is violated, building is allowed.Penalty: Removal of structures.
Loot rooms may not be blocked.Penalty: Removal of structures / at administration’s discretion.
Allowed Tent nesting: a medium tent may be nested in a car tent; a small tent may be nested in a medium tent.
Allowed Fences and buffer structures may be up to three floors high.
Allowed Sniper towers may be up to six floors from the ground or three floors above a roof.
Allowed Palisades may only be built from ground level as an outer perimeter or on structures over water. Palisades inside buildings are forbidden.
A standing character must be able to pass freely between gates, doors and structures without becoming stuck.Penalty: Removal of violating structures.
The minimum distance between palisades is one palisade hologram width, measured across the barrier.Penalty: Removal of violating structures.
Fan, cross, star and similar layouts spreading from one point in several directions are forbidden unless expressly allowed by boost/raid rules.Penalty: Removal of violating structures.
Allowed A treehouse may only be built from ground level and may be no more than one floor high.
4. Raid rules
Raid hours (Moscow time): Monday–Friday 18:00–22:00; Saturday–Sunday 15:00–22:00. Damage applies to all structures except shed walls (raid the door) and structure floors.Penalty: Raid outside schedule: ban from 3 days / at administration’s discretion.
Allowed After gaining access to every loot room, raiders may claim the base.
Allowed Structures may be dismantled with an axe at any time if all boosting rules are followed.
Allowed A three-person boost is allowed: two players support the third.
Allowed A three-floor watchtower is allowed, with the ground counted as floor one.
Allowed A vehicle may be used for boosting.
Allowed The explicitly allowed boost methods may be combined.
Other methods of entering a base are forbidden.Penalty: Three-day ban.
A watchtower may not be placed inside textures or suspended in the air.Penalty: Three-day ban.
Using arbitrary game items for boosting or squeezing into a base is forbidden.Penalty: Three-day ban.
Animation exploits, pushing through geometry and similar bugs are forbidden. Every raid or entry must be recorded at its key moments, and evidence must be kept for three days.Penalty: Three-day ban.
Blocking entrances or exits during a raid is forbidden.Penalty: Ban from 3 days / at administration’s discretion.
Base owners and raiders may not leave the server with raid items in their inventory during a raid. Base owners may not destroy loot to deny it to raiders.Penalty: Seven-day ban.
Raiding or entering through the triangular balcony window of a “teremok” structure is forbidden.Penalty: Five-day ban.
5. Frequently asked questions
Controls: M — map; K — map markers; + — auto-run; J — vehicle radio; ←/→ — previous/next track.
When are raids allowed? Monday–Friday 18:00–22:00 and weekends 15:00–22:00 Moscow time.
How often do wipes happen? Approximately every 1–1.5 months.
How does a flagpole work? Build the flag, choose Claim, open access while teammates authorize, then close it. Hide it from other players and renew it more often than once every 36 hours.
Important information
Administration may punish actions that violate fair-play principles even if the exact action is not listed. Disputes are handled individually through the project Discord.