New player guide

Join, and don't get banned on day one

Open Rust, press F1 and type client.connect 212.117.170.68:25611. There are two more ways in How to join.

Read the rules: they are short. Banter is part of Rust, attacking the person is not. Join the Discord: that is where wipes are announced and tickets are opened.

Raid hours

You can only raid at certain hours. Outside them, damage to bases is cut: stone takes half, sheet metal and HQM take nothing. Doors, windows, external walls, turrets, SAM sites, electrical, planters, signs, lockers, beds and lights are protected too.

In game there is a timer at the top of the screen. Type /raidstatus in chat to see whether raiding is open and the server time, and /raidui if the timer disappears.

Playing as a team

• Shared blueprints: what one learns, the whole team knows, including anyone who joins later. If you leave the team, you lose the ones you received.
• Turrets: authorise the whole team automatically.
• SAM Sites: only fire at people not authorised on your TC.

Building

Half walls, window walls and doorways cost half. Low walls cost a third. Everything else costs the same as vanilla Rust.

Leaderboard and wipes

The server counts your kills, deaths, headshots, accuracy, playtime and resources. The board updates every 10 minutes and shows your name and Steam picture, never your SteamID. At the end of every wipe, the top 3 is kept in the wipe archive.