Server Guidelines

To keep the server fun, competitive, and fair, please read through the rules before jumping in. By playing on Sunrise Valley, you agree to follow these guidelines.

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Crucial Base Building Tip

Do not place your chests flat against your walls! Enemy players can exploit this to loot your chests from the outside. Always place your chests in the middle of a room, or at least a half-tile away from any exterior walls to keep your loot safe.

📜 General Rules
  • Be Respectful (No Toxicity): Trash talk about the game is fine, but toxicity is not. Keep banter related to gameplay. Taking things outside the game to make personal attacks, or using hate speech, racism, or severe harassment will result in an instant ban. There is no need to get personal.
  • No Spamming: Keep the chat clean. Do not spam chat, use excessive caps, or self-promote without permission.
⚔️ In-Game Rules (PvP & Loot)
  • PvP is Active: This is a PvP server. Expect to be attacked by other players. Friendly fire within guilds is disabled.
  • Fair Engagement (Newbie Protection): Do not repeatedly target, harass, or grief players who are significantly lower level than you. Additionally, bases located on the starter/spawn islands belonging to low-level players are strictly off-limits for raiding. Let new players establish themselves before engaging them in PvP.
  • Death Penalty (Items Only): Upon death, you will drop your regular inventory items (materials, spheres, ammo). You will keep your equipped weapons, armor, and Pals.
  • Instant Looting: The death bag protection timer is disabled. Anyone can instantly pick up your dropped items when you die, so guard your loot carefully!
  • Base Raiding, Chests & ORP: Because this is a PvP server, enemy players can freely open your chests! In-game security locks only restrict access for your own guildmates. To protect your loot from rivals, you must build strong defensive walls and hide your chests. Offline Raid Protection (ORP) is active to protect your base while you are offline, but it will automatically disable after 4 days.
  • Active Base Defenses: Base Pals will automatically engage and attack any rival players who trespass into your base camp area.
🏰 Base & Guild Limits
  • Base Limits & Progression: Guild base camps are strictly limited to 2 per guild and 15 workers per base to optimize server performance. Note: You start with a limit of 1 base. Your second base will unlock when your first base reaches Level 18.
  • Guild Size: Guilds are capped at a maximum of 4 players.
  • No Blockading: Building is restricted around key objects, fast travel points, and boss spawns. Do not attempt to bypass this to block core game content.
  • NPC Raids Disabled: Wild Pal/NPC base invasions are turned off. Your only threat is other players.
  • Abandoned Bases (Auto-Wipe): To prevent server lag, bases that have been abandoned for longer than 8 days will have their Palbox automatically removed by the server.
🚫 Zero Tolerance Policy
  • No Cheating or Hacking: The use of third-party cheat engines, aimbots, or unauthorized mods is an immediate, unappealable ban.
  • No Exploit Abuse: Deliberately abusing game bugs to gain an unfair advantage is forbidden. This includes using exploits or illegitimate sphere methods to steal another player's or guild's Pals.
  • Under-Mesh Building: Building under the mesh/terrain is strictly prohibited. Any bases found exploiting through solid ground to build will be subject to admin removal.
  • Banned Pals (Panthalus): Panthalus is strictly forbidden on the server in any capacity. You may not use Panthalus for base defense, combat, or keep it in your party.
⚙️ Server Info & Expectations
  • Server Rates: 2x EXP / 1x Standard Gathering.
  • Crossplay Enabled: Open to Steam, Xbox, PS5, and Mac players.
  • Item Despawn: Dropped items in the world will automatically despawn after 1 hour.
  • Palworld Quirks: Palworld's v1.0 came with a lot of new bugs. The server may experience random crashes or require automated restarts to clear memory leaks.
  • Phantom Raids: If you see a "Raid" banner stuck on your screen but nothing is happening, it is a UI bug. It will disappear after a few seconds, if not completely restart your game to clear it.