diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index faf0d7e..3570289 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ backpack from the site, a player can see their own, and an event can lend a bigg
 the bridge only ever reads a backpack, and the bigger size is one of Backpacks' own `backpacks.size.N`
 permissions, pushed like any other grant.
 
+nivex's `TruePVE` is optional in the same way. Where it is loaded an event's zone can turn off PvP
+protection inside it, or use one of the operator's own TruePVE rulesets by name; where it is not, the
+zone step says "TruePVE is not installed on this server". The bridge only ever adds and removes the
+mappings of zones it opened, and removes each one with its zone, even when TruePVE was away at the time.
+
 Rust's own world events need no plugin at all. The patrol helicopter, Bradley, the cargo ship, the
 Chinook, airdrops, locked crates, the Travelling Vendor, the satellite and the Deep Sea reach the
 site's feed and its event triggers on every server, and an event can call one of them (`world.call`).
diff --git a/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs b/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
index f5bdd35..532e8ac 100644
--- a/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
+++ b/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
@@ -5169,8 +5169,9 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             // Hello carries ZoneManager's flag list and both helpers' states, so a change to any
             // of the four is said again rather than waiting for the next connect (§3.1, §3.2).
             // Economics too: hello carries its starting balance, which the richest column needs;
-            // and Backpacks, whose sizes are what a Bigger backpack step offers.
-            if (IsZonePlugin(plugin) || IsRunicNpc(plugin) || IsEconomics(plugin) || IsBackpacks(plugin))
+            // and Backpacks, whose sizes are what a Bigger backpack step offers; and TruePVE, which a
+            // zone step's PvP rules are refused without (§14.3.2).
+            if (IsZonePlugin(plugin) || IsRunicNpc(plugin) || IsEconomics(plugin) || IsBackpacks(plugin) || IsTruePve(plugin))
                 NextTick(ResendHello);
 
             // Economics loaded after players connected: what they hold now is not otherwise known
@@ -5200,7 +5201,7 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             if (plugin != null && plugin.Name == "BetterChat")
                 _titlesRegistered = false;
 
-            if (IsZonePlugin(plugin) || IsRunicNpc(plugin) || IsEconomics(plugin) || IsBackpacks(plugin))
+            if (IsZonePlugin(plugin) || IsRunicNpc(plugin) || IsEconomics(plugin) || IsBackpacks(plugin) || IsTruePve(plugin))
                 NextTick(ResendHello);
 
             ConfigWriteJob job = _configJob;