WormWood

Rules

Our community rules

Our rules must be followed by everyone to protect our servers, maintain a semi-civil community, and provide the best experience for all of our members.

These rules apply to all Wormwood DayZ servers, channels, and DMs

:one: Use common sense, practice good judgment, and respect others.

Lighthearted banter is acceptable, but toxic behavior has consequences. Respect fellow members and step away if a debate turns into an argument. Denigration, harassment, accusations, and vitriol will not be tolerated.

:two: Contribute to a safe and inclusive community.

Avoid posting age-restricted or offensive (NSFW) content. Do not misrepresent or impersonate server staff, spam, advertise, or attempt to bypass moderation filters. Respect any requests to cease certain behaviors. All discussions on our servers should only be in English.

:three: If you have a problem, create a ticket. Do not DM Staff

To create a ticket, use https://discord.com/channels/1254556285567762503/1257877369549488241, https://discord.com/channels/1254556285567762503/1386091656733786375, or https://discord.com/channels/1254556285567762503/1442337677100847240. Use ⁠https://discord.com/channels/1254556285567762503/1386463530508615852 or https://discord.com/channels/1254556285567762503/1254625744278130719 for normal questions. Chances are, someone in the community knows the answer to your question. Use the ticket system to notify staff of problems, don't air it out in public channels. If you see someone breaking the rules, tell the staff team and let them handle it. Whining and accusations of cheating or hacking will not be tolerated.

:four: Be mindful that Wormwood DayZ is a private, volunteer-run community.

Participating on our servers is a privilege. Server staff can issue warnings, mutes, kicks, or bans for unspecified rule violations, including unfair gameplay and toxicity. Using loopholes to violate the spirit of our rules is subject to enforcement. Wormwood DayZ is a private community that retains the right to make it's own decisions about who can and cannot play on our servers. Decisions made by staff members are final and binding. If you have an issue with that, find another server.

Wormwood DayZ's rules may be subject to updates or revisions from time to time. You are encouraged to check the rules regularly to refresh yourself and ensure you are always up-to-date; ignorance is not an excuse. If you have questions or need clarification, please do not hesitate to ask.

Our Community Rules were last updated on • Nov 27, 2025

Section 1: Gameplay Rules

General Gameplay

1. Do not use exploits, cheats, or unintended gameplay glitches.

  • •This includes render glitching or making your character meatball, dwarf, or moonwalk outside of safezones.

2. Do not metagame (give away locations in chat, use info from Wormwood’s Discord, etc.) or stream snipe.

3. Do not loot cycle.

4. Do not disconnect in someone else’s base.

5. Alt accounts (in-game and/or Discord) are not allowed.

6. Your in-game and Discord names must match.

7. Placing or dropping items in bushes, trees, or buried stashes is done at your own risk. Staff will not compensate for any lost items.

8. Buying or selling from a trader within 5 minutes of a scheduled restart is done at your own risk. Staff will not compensate for any missing items.

9. Looting a body within 5 minutes of a scheduled restart is done at your own risk. Staff will not compensate for any missing items.

10. Logging out in the same building and/or within 50m of a dimple key or keycard crate is not allowed.

11. Blocking any doorway, entryway, or exit with a locked vehicle is not allowed.

12. A group can only call in two (2) airdrops using flares per restart (every four hours).

13. For any comp related to cheaters:

  • •We will not compensate any items worth less than 100k.
  • •You must have clip(s) of the cheating occurring.
  • •We will only compensate items visible within the clip.

14. Blocking any roadway with vehicle(s) is prohibited.

15. Looting another person's secure container under any circumstance is prohibited.

16. Logging out in Bunker is prohibited, even on server restarts. You must leave prior to a restart. (Unscheduled restarts/updates are an exception)

17. Do not log off with blacklisted items

  • •C4, Homemade Explosives, Hacking Devices, etc.
  • •Logging off with these items will cause them to drop to the ground -- No Compensation will be given.
  • •Bypassing this is exploiting and bannable

Combat Logging

18. Combat logging or “pulling the cord” is not allowed under any circumstances. You must leave the area without being shot before you disconnect. Combat logging is based off damage dealt OR received.

  • •If you disconnect during combat by accident, notify server staff immediately to avoid punishment.

Combat Log Penalties:

  • •1st offense: Banned until you create a ticket. You will be unbanned and killed. Your items will go to those you combat logged against.
  • •2nd offense: First offense plus a 48-hour ban.
  • •3rd offense: First offense plus a 7-day ban.
  • •Subsequent offenses: Permanent ban that cannot be appealed.
  • •Combat logging includes logging out in your own base while being raided.

19. CF Tools Access: Players with CF Tools access must not use it on this server. This includes but is not limited to; looking up other players, discussing their CF Tools account with others, and sharing profile links.

Our Community Rules were last updated on • Jun 2, 2026

Section 2: Safezone (SZ) & Black Market (BM) Rules

Safezone rules:

1. Do not steal, grief, troll, or rob others inside trader safe zones, including opening vehicle doors or entering another player's vehicle without permission.

2. Do not block access to any traders/NPCs, exits, or purchase areas.

3. Do not leave vehicles unattended in the safezone for more than two (2) server restarts, vehicles are automatically deleted after that!

4. Vehicles parked in safe zones must be left alone.

  • •Do not attempt to move them by ramming or pushing.
  • •If a vehicle is in the way of something, create a ticket.
  • •If you find a vehicle that was stolen from you in a safezone, don't touch it. Rule of thumb: if you did not bring it into the safezone, don't touch it.

5. Do not hot mic or mic spam in traders, including playing music, yelling into your mic, or using soundboards.

6. Camping outside any SafeZone with the intention of PVPing, killing, etc., other players who are going to/from SZ is NOT ALLOWED.

  • •Camping Examples: Following people outside of SZ to kill them; standing at the border waiting for people to leave/enter and killing them; hiding in trees waiting for people to leave/enter and killing them.
  • •If you are reporting someone for breaking this camping rule, you MUST have solid evidence to prove they are/were camping. Just because you died there doesn't mean someone is breaking the rule.

Black Market Rules:

7. Camping BM with the intentions of PVPing, killing, etc. other players who are going to/from BM is NOT ALLOWED.

  • •Definition of BM camping: the act of staying at BM with the sole purpose of killing players and either looting or selling their items afterward.
  • •If you are at BM and encounter players, you are allowed to fight them. You are allowed to set up a perimeter and protect teammates while they are selling. BM is supposed to be the most dangerous area on the map. You are going to run into people and either kill or be killed.
  • •If you are reporting someone for breaking this camping rule, you MUST have solid evidence to prove they are/were camping. Just because you died there doesn't mean someone is breaking the rule.

8. Do not place any mines or traps within 500m of the black market trader marker.

9. Do not log at BM.

This section was last updated on • Nov 27, 2025

Section 3: Group & Faction Rules

Learn about factions and groups

1. Groups and factions are limited to five (5) ONLINE members total on US1 and three ONLINE (3) members total on US2.

  • •If you are in a subgroup, DO NOT join the server if the group limit is reached.

2. Groups and factions cannot play/live/roam with or assist other factions.

  • •Alliances are not allowed.

3. All faction members must be members of the Wormwood DayZ Discord server.

4. All faction members must wear their tags on the DayZ server.

  • •If a group member does not have their tags on the Discord server, create a ticket to submit a name change request.

5. Players, groups, and factions cannot have or be registered to more than one (1) territory and one (1) flag at any given time.

  • •Territory swapping regularly is not allowed.

6. Member swapping is allowed but restricted.

  • •You cannot swap from one group to another on raid weekend.
  • •You cannot log inside your old group's base if you swap.
  • •You cannot rotate players within your group during active raid or PvP. Whoever starts the raid/PvP should finish it.
  • •Some of these restrictions are automatically scripted with timers. If you leave a group and now have a timer, that's your fault. We will not help you or reset your timer — make your decisions wisely!

3.7 Insiding / Group Theft

Insiding is strictly prohibited.

By joining a group, you acknowledge that all items, vehicles, storage, base materials, and other property accessible to the group are considered shared group property, regardless of which member originally obtained, purchased, crafted, or placed them.

If you choose to leave, are removed from, or otherwise separate from a group, you may only leave with:

  • •Items that are already on your character/person at the time you leave the group.
  • •Items stored inside a personal storage container or vault that is individually code-locked and inaccessible to the rest of the group, provided that container was clearly being used as your personal storage prior to leaving.

You may not empty, transfer, destroy, hide, sell, despawn, or remove items from shared storage, vehicles, tents, crates, base storage, or any other group-accessible container before leaving.

You may also not give group property to another player, alternate account, allied group, or third party in an attempt to circumvent this rule.

Changing codes, removing locks, dismantling the base, sabotaging defenses, intentionally exposing the base, or otherwise harming the group/base before or after leaving will also be considered insiding.

Disputes regarding ownership will generally be treated as group property unless the item was stored inside a clearly established personal, individually locked storage container.

Staff Enforcement

Staff will investigate reports of insiding and take appropriate disciplinary action against the offending player, including a ban when warranted.

Staff will not determine, calculate, or investigate exactly what items were taken, destroyed, transferred, or lost as a result of an insiding incident. Our responsibility ends with determining whether the rule was violated and punishing the offending player.

**No items, currency, vehicles, base materials, or other property will be returned, replaced, or reimbursed by staff as a result of an insid

This section was last updated on • Sep 25, 2026

Section 4: Flag & Base Rules

:warning: Server staff can delete bases or flags without warning if rules are violated. It is your responsibility to ensure that your base is in compliance. If you are not sure or want clarification, create a ticket.

Do not build within...

  • •1000m of any trader marker.
  • •500m of the fence of any military encampment or military base.
  • •250m of a military checkpoint (with tents), gas station, or cement mixer.
  • •100m of a possible ATM spawn location (auto enforced).

Distance is measured from the flag to the closest part of the protected building.

Base construction & flags

1. Flags cannot clip inside or through any object; it must be accessible.

2. Faction flags can only have members of the faction registered; non-members are not allowed.

3. Bases cannot exceed the territory boundary (50m).

4. Bases cannot be built on roads OR over roads in a manner that affects travel in any fashion.

5. Bases cannot have more than ten (10) gates, doors, hangars, etc. (any raidable entry point that is or can be codelocked).

6. All bases must include at least one (1) accessible raidable point (door, window, etc.) for ingress and egress at all times.

  • •Players should be able to get in and out without taking excessive damage.

7. Do not stack gates, doors, hatches, windows, floors, or walls directly in front of or on top of each other.

  • •No more than three (3) items are allowed within one (1) full wall length.

8. Sky bases, floating bases, or tower bases are not allowed.

  • •Only one floor section may overhang from an existing structure or wall.

9. Bases built on the ground must not exceed the height of four (4) full walls.

10. Bases built on existing structures must not extend more than two (2) full walls above the structure’s height.

11. Do not leave BBP items in a blueprint state & do not leave materials in blueprints.

12. Do not build while your base is actively being raided.

  • •You MUST wait 30 minutes since the last breaching charge / C4 explosion / “boom” to rebuild.
  • •You MUST wait 30 minutes since the last softside (BBP object dismantled) to rebuild

13. Windows that are codelocked cannot replace or be used as doors. Codelocked windows should only be used as emergency exits/entrances and quick access points. Violations will result in base deletion.

14. NO PEEKS. You must snap your walls, floors, roofs, etc., and leave no gaps.

  • •This includes combining two half walls (example: lower half chain link, upper half wood).

15. NO FORCED ANIMATIONS. Players must be able to enter and exit your base without being forced to crouch, vault, prone, etc.

  • •This includes ladders in vanilla buildings.

16. Any paths, walkways, etc. MUST be at least two (2) players wide.

17. You cannot combine two building objects to make one object (e.g., stacking half walls to make peaks).

18. Catwalks using pillars may NOT be used. A walkway raid path must be made of small floor panels or larger. The walkway must follow the 2 player width rule at all times. Pit bases cannot cause excessive damage to a falling player (barbed wire pit) damage should not exceed 25% HP from the fall. Pit must have a dismantlable exit.

  • •The player cannot be forced to fall or forced to use animations as explained above.

19. Any violation of these rules will result in the specific area—or the entire base—being removed by staff without warning.

20. No gaps, cracks, or visibility exploits

This section was last updated on • Aug 24, 2026

Section 5: Base Raiding Rules

:warning: You are strongly encouraged to record your gameplay at all times, particularly when raiding. Staff may request evidence to verify a raid’s validity. Staff will never relay information to affected players if the raid was legitimate.

1. Soft raiding is allowed 24/7.

  • •Soft raiding is any attempted raid that does not involve explosives (climbing, walking through open doors, etc.).
  • •Record or take pictures of your entry point and create a ticket so staff are aware.

2. Raiding with explosives is only allowed from Friday, 8pm to Sunday, 8pm (ET).

3. Do not takeover, lower/dismantle flags, or place your own locks in someone else’s base at any time.

4. Do not exploit bugs or glitches to get into someone else’s base.

5. Boosting is allowed, but:

  • •You must use either: up to three players, a single object, OR a single land vehicle. You may not use a combination of methods.
  • •Building, stacking, or using floating objects for boosting is not allowed.
  • •You may NOT stand on top of a heli to boost into a base.
  • •Raiding by standing on the side rail of a heli is allowed. This is a server with heli's you should build with that in mind.

6. Dismantling or damaging objects should only be done to gain entry or exit and never to grief. One wall is not considered griefing. Raids get messy sometimes.

  • •It is allowed to dismantle BBP objects to get to loot, enter, or exit the base.
  • •It is NOT allowed to randomly dismantle objects.
  • •You may NOT dismantle with the sole intent of extending a raid rebuild timer.

7. Dismantling walls, doors, etc. to collect planks and nails is NOT allowed.

  • •If you dismantle something, leave the materials (codelocks, planks, nails, cement, etc.).

8. Gunner seat raiding is allowed.

9. Popcorning loot (throwing someone’s loot on the ground to despawn it) is NOT allowed. You may NOT popcorn or trash your own loot while being raided.

This section was last updated on • Sep 13, 2026

Section 6: Vehicle Rules

:warning: This section was updated recently

Added 4. CTF in Vehicled Prohibitted!

1. Vehicles are used at your own risk; staff will not compensate for any vehicle-related issues.

2. Groups and factions may own up to five (5) land vehicles and three (3) helicopters.

3. If you steal a vehicle or helicopter from a base, create a ticket so staff are aware.

  • •Staff will never relay information to affected players if the theft was legitimate.

4. Using a vehicle by any means to transport a Capture the Flag is NOT allowed

5. Vehicles that are left out on the map for 3 days will automatically be deleted or sent to impound lot. We have a virtual garage mod for a reason and vehicles are not meant to bypass base storage restrictions.

This section was last updated on • Nov 28, 2025

Section 7: Support Ticket Rules

This section covers the rules and guidelines for creating a ticket.

1. You MUST fill out all fields when creating a ticket.

2. Read the rules before creating a ticket.

3. Just because your base was raided or softsided does NOT make it illegal. 99.9% of all reports of illegal softsides have been proven to be within the rules. Do NOT tie up the support system because you built something incorrectly.

4. Do NOT create tickets on behalf of someone else. It takes longer to support you supporting someone else than if that person made the ticket themselves. All players are required to be in Discord anyway.

5. If you are reporting someone, you MUST have evidence. Saying “I was killed by JimmyJohn outside safezone” means nothing. How do you know he was camping? Clips or screenshots are almost always required.

6. Don’t make a ticket because someone is being mean to you. We are adults. If someone is racist or crosses the line with toxicity, please DO make a ticket.

7. Be as DETAILED as possible when creating a ticket.

  • •Example 1 (Correct): I was flying my M4D Clan Variant MH6 Little Bird coming from XYZ (coords & town) and going to XYZ (coords & town) when my game/server crashed and I can’t find my helicopter.
  • •Example 1 (Incorrect): I was driving a helicopter and it vanished idk where it went please give it back.
  • •Example 2 (Correct): Hi! During a gunfight at XYZ (Zelenogorsk), I felt the gameplay by the opposing team/member was suspicious. I attached a clip. At 0:46 JimmyJohn from ABC group prefires the doorway as I walk out. Here is the kill-feed timestamp. If he's cheating, I would like the items I lost returned. Items can be seen in the death logs, clip, and this list: LIST ITEMS.
  • •Example 2 (Incorrect): Yoooo this JimmyJohn dude is mad sus bro ban him AND give me my items.
  • •Example 3 (Correct): Hi! Can you delete the following objects I can’t dismantle at my base? Coordinates are XYZ. (Screenshots attached)
  • •Example 3 (Incorrect): I need stuff deleted at my base.

8. Staff typically close tickets once resolved — sometimes when you’re offline. The Ticket Bot will DM you the transcript. If your DMs are off, add the bot as a friend.

9. Abusing the ticket system will result in a ban.

  • •Don’t be petty in tickets. This is a video game — grow up.
  • •Don’t try to use staff as a weapon against people you don’t like. See above.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your ticket being deleted with a link directing you back to this section.

This section was last updated on • Nov 27, 2025