PvE rules in detail · Zero Grief

What the server prevents. Players, death, bases, turrets, vehicles, loot and monuments.

All these rules are enforced by the server. They work at all times, whether you are online or not. One term to remember: your group means your in-game team.

Players

Rule	Details
No damage between groups	Bullets, melee, explosives, fire, thrown items: nothing hurts a player outside your group. Your vehicle (if you run someone over), your traps and your turrets count as you too.
Passengers protected	A vehicle with someone from another group on board takes no damage from you: you can’t shoot down a heli or blow up a car with strangers inside.
No searching, robbing or handcuffing	You can’t search or handcuff a player from another group, whatever their state, even asleep.
Sleeping players	Same protection as a player who is awake.
Sleeping bags	You can only give a sleeping bag to someone in your group.

Death

Rule	Details
Weapon kept	The weapon in your hands stays in your body instead of dropping to the ground.
Backpack kept	Your backpack stays on your body.
Body reserved	Only your group can loot your body and your death bag, and pick up what dropped around you when you died. No time limit, apart from the game’s normal despawn.
Wounded for longer	You stay wounded (downed) much longer than in vanilla before dying: your group has time to pick you up.

To find your body, use /death (also /mort). See Death and bodies.

NPCs, the Bradley and the helicopter

Rule	Details
Safe at home	In a base where you are authorized on the cupboard, no human NPC, Bradley or helicopter can target you or hurt you.
Unless you shoot from home	If someone in your group attacks an NPC, the Bradley or the helicopter from your base, that target can fire back at your group at home for a while. Your base is not a risk-free sniper nest.
Nothing follows you home	An NPC chasing you can’t target you any more once you are home.
Patrol Helicopter	It only chases and strafes players who attacked it recently. Everyone else is ignored, even if armed and well geared.
Bradley APC	Same rule: it only targets those who attacked it recently. Convoy Bradleys follow their own rules (see Events).
Animals	The home protection only covers human NPCs: a wolf or a bear that follows you home can still bite.

Turrets, traps and SAM sites

Equipment	Rule
Players’ turrets, traps and SAM sites	Never hit another group or its vehicles. Turrets still shoot at NPCs.
Outpost and Bandit Camp turrets	Unchanged.
Monument and raid base SAM sites	Unchanged: they fire at anything that flies. A red dome shows around the ones that can fire at you (see Vehicles).

Your base

“Your base” is the building privilege zone of your Tool Cupboard (TC). Players authorized on the cupboard are “at home”.

Nobody outside your group can use, open, damage or take down anything of yours. This applies to everything your group owns, anywhere on the map, and to everything inside your base.

What visitors can still do in your base

A visitor can only buy from your vending machines, play your slot machines, post mail and knock on your doors.

World damage and upkeep

Whatever players built or placed takes no damage from NPCs, the helicopter, the Bradley, or event fires and debris. Only upkeep (decay) still applies, as in vanilla: keep your cupboard stocked.

Vehicles are not protected this way: NPCs, the helicopter, the Bradley and events can destroy them.

The Tool Cupboard and teams

Rule	Details
Who can authorize	Only your team can authorize on your cupboard.
Never locked out	You can always authorize again on your own cupboard.
Maximum	Each player can only place a limited number of cupboards.
Leaving a team	You are removed from your former teammates’ cupboards and turrets.
Shared blueprints	Blueprints you got from your team are lost if you leave it or get kicked from it; the ones you learned yourself stay yours.

Building

Rule	Details
Inside another group’s base	Forbidden: no ladder, no lock, no cupboard, no item, no building block.
Distance from another base	You can’t build too close to another group’s base. Raid bases don’t count.
Distance from another player	Outside your base, you can’t build right next to a player from another group, even a sleeping one.

Vehicles and horses

Rule	Details
Bought from a vendor	It’s yours for good.
Free vehicle	It becomes yours as soon as you take the driver’s seat. This applies to helis, boats, cars, snowmobiles, bikes, submarines, horses and siege engines. Not to trains or hot air balloons, and not in raid bases.
Who can drive it	Only your group. Others can ride as passengers only if someone from your group is on board, and can never take the controls.
End of the claim	A vehicle you only took (didn’t buy) becomes free again if it’s left abandoned for a long time. It stays yours if it’s parked in your base.
Horse bought at the stables	Yours for good, like a bought vehicle.
Horse death	What drops from a horse you own goes to your group.

Always park your vehicles and horses in your base: there, they stay yours indefinitely.

Loot: who gets what

Source	Goes to	In practice
Human NPC	The group that led the fight	Its body and its loot stay reserved for that group for a good while.
Animal	The group that led the fight	Others can’t skin it.
Patrol Helicopter, Bradley APC	The group that led the fight	Its crates and debris, even if they land in someone else’s base.
Hackable crate	The group that starts the hack	Others can’t hack it or loot it.
Supply signal airdrop	The group of whoever threw the signal	The plane and the crate. Airdrops nobody called in are free for all.
Event crates	The first group that kills one of the event’s guards, or opens the crate	Released if that group leaves.
Big monuments	The group clearing it: the first to shoot one of its NPCs or open one of its crates	Its crates are reserved for that group while it stays there, for a limited time.
Your body, your death bag, your dropped items	Your group	Until they despawn normally

Claimable monuments

Big monuments: military bases, Launch Site, oil rigs, harbors… Outpost and Bandit Camp can never be claimed.

Public machines

A monument recycler, furnace, quarry or workbench becomes yours as long as your items are inside (including the Outpost and Bandit Camp recyclers). Others can’t open it or turn the recycler on. The lock lasts until you empty the machine or stay away for a while.