All players are expected to treat others with decency and respect at all time
¶ CHARACTER CREATION
You can only have one active character at a time - the creation of a new character requires another application and the rendering of your previous character lost, killed, exiled, etc.
Your characters must have no connection to any past characters.
You must use your character name OR alias as your discord nickname and mumble name(no spaces).
Your characters' skills and profiencies are set at creation. Apprenticeships can be taken in game to change them.
¶ MINORS / INFANTS
Underage characters/children are not permitted to be created or played. No exceptions will be made.
In-season pregnancies/infants are not permitted. Once the season concludes your character may become pregnant or have as many children as you wish, within your character lore. Portraying a pregnant character or having children within the playable space of the season is not permitted.
¶ AI RULES
AI software should not be used to create character backstory in your application. Character creation is a fundamental aspect of roleplaying, and submitting something obviously written by Chat GPT or other software undermines this. You should create a character you want to inhabit, not go through the motions just to play Valheim on our server. If you have trouble creating a character, create-a-ticket and ask for help from the admins. If it is suspected by staff that AI elements are contained in your backstory staff may ask you to rewrite it EVEN IF you haven't. AI written or enhanced backstories WILL NOT be accepted.
¶ CHARACTER NAMES
¶ Main Rules
Having defined rules for character names helps us with administrative tasks, prevents confusion over who is or isn't an admin character, and keeps out of character references from clouding the world of the game.
- Your name must fit in-game, 15 character max including spaces. This is a limitation of Valheim proper, as a game. We cannot make exceptions for you.
- You must have a first and last name,
- Names may have a Middle initial, suffix (II, Jr.) etc. if space allows.
- Names may not be a title or rank (John Brown II
Capt. Brown 
King Brown ) - Your name must be unique in the season (IE, you cannot have the same name as another players' character)
- Names of celebrities, pop culture references, gods, atheletes, refrences to memes, characters from video games, anime, etc., are not permitted
- Firstname The Blank names are not forbidden if era appropriate/not memey (Jane The Wretched Frank The Fast John The Supercool )
- Reusing your names from previous seasons aren't allowed even if slightly different. (S9 you played David Rangarson S10 you tried to play Davidd Rangarsson )
- Names regarding sexual acts, positions, or your favorite/least favorite genetalia are not permitted.
- Odd or unusual names can be permitted if justified through compelling/thought out story reasons, but within reason. (Useless Dreck is a slave who was named out of hate and spite by a cruel master, her lack of a name is central to her identity as a character , Dick Phuckr is a member of the illustrious Phuckr family, his real name is Robert, see my lore for details
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Within the world of the game you may call yourself whatever you wish, as long it breaks no other rules. If your Character Name is David Smith and you tell everyone your name is King David, this is fine. Calling yourself Scarlett Johanson is not.
Even if your character name is accepted, if it is later found to violate one of these rules you will be asked to remake/rename your character. Your inventory/wards will be given to your new character, but any skills gained will be lost.
¶ Alias Rules
By typing /setalias in chat you can change your characters name to an Alias, and /clearalias will reset it. This should be limited to an alias you set at character creation or a generic name that fits the setting of the world. Setting your alias to the name of another character in the world (alive or dead), to an admin characters' name, an emoji or symbol, or any name that violates any of our naming rules can result in suspensions or bans. Please use it responsibly.
By using /hide your name in chat will change to "???", which may suit your clandestine purposes better than an alias.
¶ CHEATS / TRAINERS
Using cheating software to enable devcommands/debug mode or alter the memory of the game to duplicate items isn't allowed on VRP. Roleplay takes precedence over obtaining items or creating massive free builds. You will be removed from active play if any cheating is discovered, and in particularly egregious cases removed from the community.
¶ BUILDING / INSTANCES
Whilst in-game, pressing F2 will bring up various metrics and UI. Please note, this is META information, your character can not interpret this information.
Within the F2 menu, you can find 'Instances' - this is the primary metric used when building. Instances in Valheim are the total number of objects rendered within a radius of your character.
You must keep your builds below 11k instances max.
You may not terraform for your build for any reason. This means no mountains, no making your own rivers, no moats, no basements, no flattening a whole hill for a city.
Wards should cover your chests with items to keep them safe.
Farmers must cultivate responsibly and not create cultivated land inside towns or near multiple people. Cultivated ground is a type of terraforming. Keep this in mind when deciding the size of your farm. Make a ticket to have any terrain reset, using the grass tool doesn't fix the terraforming caused by cultivating.
If your intended build is within max render distance of others you should get their permission first.
One person doesn't build an area alone instantly. Your area starts small then gets improved gradually as roleplay dictates.
Building a large public area needs to be supported by other players. Many people may live in one place, but if one person is building it all or building it instantly, it is not acceptable.
Remember building far away means many will not take the time to visit you, you'll get bored and have no RP.
¶ TOWNS & GUILDS
Towns and Guilds are in-character groups formed by players. There must be at least 5 active members to be recognized.
Town: A physical location in a distinct area that people live and work in.
Guild: A group of people with a common goal, job or interest
- Characters may be a member of 1 town and 3 guilds
- You may only be the OOC liason for one town and one guild.
A discord role and channel will be made for the town/guild.
The discord channel is for coordinating OOC only.
DO NOT use the town/guild channel for meta.
DO discuss things like instances / lag, coordinating irl times for events
¶ WARDS
You are permited to build 1 ward of each type. The ward will deactivate after 10 days if not replaced or fed.
An ward that has expired is considered dead. A ward turned off is considered inactive.
You can be on an unlimited number of other people's wards.
You may not ward to claim resources (e.g. crypts, burial chambers, colored mushrooms, copper deposits) without IC reason and admin preapproval. You can still build on, over or near them as long as they remain publicly accessible without requiring a raid ticket to enter (locked doors, fencing, defenses, etc.)
A building or settlement attached to or near an active ward will always need to be respected under our Raid/Robbery Rules.
If a building/settlement has a ward that has gone dormant (dead) it may be robbed at will,. After a ward has been dead for over a week the admins may permit the build being demolished.
You are not allowed to add yourself to someones ward without their permission for any reason, no matter how altruistic you feel your intentions are. If you have accidentally done so, please #create-a-ticket and inform the admins so we can correct your error.
¶ TOMBSTONES
Tombstones are never lootable without explicit permission either of the admins or of the fallen player. If you find a grave in the world, #create-a-ticket and we will contact the owner or remove it. You are not permitted to take anything from any tombstone unless permission is given first.
¶ TAMED CREATURES
¶ Farm Animals
Only Farmers can tame and breed animals. Farmers may only have ten TOTAL animals (this means 8 boar and 2 chickens, or 5 Asksvin and 5 lox). It is expected that farmers might need to breed more before culling your herd, but keeping more than ten animals regularly is not acceptable.
Players with RP reasons can buy or keep animals from farmers, they may NOT breed them (this includes obtaining chicken eggs).
¶ Wolves
Only farmers may tame them.
You may have up to 2 wolves with RP reason. You may have one following you. Having more than this following can lead to unchecked breeding and lag. You may not keep a wolf larger than 4 stars.
¶ MINING / TERRAFORMING IN THE WORLD
It is expected that players will dig into the ground to gain access to materials in certain biomes. When you have depleted an area of its resources (copper, iron, tar, etc) you must make a ticket reporting the hole so admins can fix it. Please include in the ticket the following:
- Screenshot of the hole
- Screenshot of the location on your map
- Screenshot of your map zoomed out to show the relation of the spot compared to the spawn
The ticket will be kept open until the admins have had the chance to fix the terraforming and will be closed without waiting for acknowledgement.