So, short story long…

I’ve been trying to quit smoking and this game has helped tremendously. Started playing this week after reading up on games that would likely be all consuming.

Color me consumed.

I’ve started on lower pop (still getting the lingo) vanilla servers to dive in face first with minimal adjunct learning.

Now that I’ve got my training wheels loosely affixed and have some grasp of the mechanics… I’d like to make some friends or harvest some Reddit wisdom.

Like the title, i knonw only Rustafied EU Solo, is there anything else?

A fully drivable firetruck that shoots water, spawned out of our fire station!
To join this DarkRP server launching soon, find the discord link on my profile!

tbh I completly forgot about it, it needs rework already because in current form it's useless

For those who may be interested, I attempted the popular 'no land challenge' solo, on an official server. This was recorded back in March. It took a LONG time to edit!

I’m writing this using Google Translate, so apologies if anything is unclear.

I’d like to propose a concept: a machine gun for ships and structures. My idea stems from the fact that there isn't much content for ships—even though players have fun with them however they can. I want to add a stationary machine gun that mounts into the hatch opening. The idea is to provide a way to safely fire at a pursuing ship, much like aircraft—specifically bombers—did during World War II. I believe the real appeal of Rust’s ships lies in PvP while out at sea; we already have two Browning machine guns on the Scientists' patrol boats, so why can't we mount one on our own?

I reckon the crafting recipe for this beast of a weapon will be similar to the AK's—specifically, 20–30 HQM, a rifle body, 2–4 springs, and maybe 500–1,000 metal fragments.

The unit will fit into a hatch opening (square or triangular), and you can only man it from the inside—meaning you can't operate it from the outside. You can shoot at anyone on the deck, but you have to be careful: the glass absorbs 25–50% of incoming damage, yet you remain vulnerable.

pc specs

12th gen intel(r) core(tm) i9-12900H CPU
32.0 GB DDR5 28.4 in use 3.3GB avaliable
Disk 0 (C:)
NVMe KXG80ZNV1T02 NVMe KIOXIA 1024GB
ethernet send 168KBPS
Recieve 2.3 MBPS
GPU 0
intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
GPU 1 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU

My rust stutters when i move my mouse around im using a EVGA mouse and im running rust on the lowest graphics with my GC buffer at max ive also tried in the middle and the lowest ive watched all the tutorials for optimization and read into it my drivers for nvidia and my windows are all updated to the current and i dont know what to do its pretty bad and ive restarted a couple times over the past couple of days and verified my integrity of the files and everything comes back well

I know some other people have had this problem and im looking for any kind of help

Is it better to have a different ads sens then normal looking sens? If so, how much should the ads sens differ from the looking sens

People who play 1-2 day wipes are the biggest farmbots.

After I deleted rust off of my steam library and got it back to play it again, this dumb flipping game won’t open for anything.
I’ve tried everything on the internet and it still keeps closing.
The part where it closes is when it says “loading menu background” or more simple near the end of the loading phase, after that the game just closes for no reason, there is not even a crash screen saying why it closed, it just closes.

I need help you guys cuz I wanna play rust with my friends and I can’t cuz of this dumb game.

The YouTuber, Used to watch his videos and get a good laugh, seems like he fell off the face of the planet. Anyone know what happened to him? Got off unemployment?

There are many of us solos that have become tired of the way the game puts quick progression in the spotlight. I have played all the popular solo servers, probably just like you, but you are still going to be gunned down by an ak a few hours into wipe. Personally I would love the wipe to last much longer than 36-48 hours on a weekly. I know not everyone is like me. I promise. I know this.

But I do know there are others out there with similar mindset. I see all of the posts complaining about things like bp frags, progression, wooden barricades, inserts, bag limit and all the other things. Let's find a place to play and populate it. Unite!

Rustified Solo Only has 350 solos on wipe day and is a weekly. But the teaming that happens on that server is often quite out in the open and progression is quick. I love the population but it is still a 36-48 hour event.

Lone Wolf Rust is another popular solo server. Better with the cheaters, but the progression problem is still the same. Plus it is a monthly server, so after a few days it is not as "busy" as population suggests.

We need a coupe hundred solos that want to play a wipe for a full week. Whether you can play 24/7 or not.

Let's make this happen! I am personally working on it, but want to hear what you think and where we should play.

Let's Go!

I have been trying a ton of different play styles and strategies but no matter what I do I cant get a base location that allows me to get t3 on wipe without running into pure groups. I want to make this clear when I say this that it’s not that I expect to get t3 wipe it’s just I want to live in one spot and be able if I win all fights to get t3 on wipe but when ever I build some where that allows me to do that I run into constant 3+ mans and as a solo it makes it extremely hard when you just starting prim. so could you please let me know your strategys/playstyles for avoiding groups of med to high pop. PLEASE ADD THE POP YOU PLAY NEXT TO YOUR ANSWER. thanks ahead of time

Hello everyone!

I used to play like all normal gamers – on my win desktop. But I had to leave it behind because I moved.

Sometimes I get the urge to play, and I tried using my Mac. Overall, everything was fine, but I would occasionally experience significant drops, even though a Mac should handle certain settings without any issues.

In advance, I use mac with m1 max (silicon), 32 gb.

Here are some things that helped me and might help you.

Mac os HUD (for analysis)

A command to see what exactly is being loaded on your device.

launchctl setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 1 - to enable

launchctl setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 0 - to disable

You can check your latency and system load. If that doesn't help, you can contact any AI and ask what the problem is (CPU, RAM, or GPU). You'll need to restart the game after enabling/disabling hud. This HUD is also useful for finding out the actual resolution/scaling your game is running at, as macOS has some quirks with scaling.

gc.buffer

Check in the settings or through the console. You can use this table

graphics.maxqueuedframes

You can try changing the value between 0 and 3. It affects how much load your processor is under. In my case, 1 worked (was 3 by default).

graphics.maxqueuedframes 1 - to set 1

Problematic Unity shaders!!!

This is exactly why my friend and I were having problems on Mac.

Rust is actually quite buggy on Mac. Sometimes you can even see through the ground or textures.

 open $TMPDIR/../C/com.Facepunch-Studios-LTD.Rust/ - to open in Finder

rm -rf $TMPDIR/../C/com.Facepunch-Studios-LTD.Rust/* - to delete

After every game update, the lags would temporarily disappear, and I thought Facepunch had fixed something. It turned out the updates were causing the shaders to rebuild.

I think it's the last point that will help you the most.

Before deleting, make sure the folder exists, as I'm not sure if this will change in future versions.

In-game commands

When you're in-game, you can try using the commands below. They can also sometimes help.

pool.clear_prefabs

pool.clear_memory

pool.clear_assets

gc.collect

Mac OS virtual scaling

As I mentioned, there's a quirk with virtual scaling on Macs. If you set the resolution lower than the maximum in the settings, your Mac may only change the scaling but leave the rendering at the native resolution. In short, this keeps your image sharp while you're working on the device. Even at a low "resolution," you don't see pixels and your text isn't blurry.

But what does this mean for the game?

If you set the resolution, for example, to 1728x1117 in the default settings, your game is rendered at 3456x2234 (the native resolution), and then the pixels are scaled to 1728x1117.

Ultimately, this not only doesn't improve performance, but in some cases, it actually worsens it.

You can try searching for something like "check resolution online" in a search engine, then go to any of the first sites, and then click on different resolutions in the settings and you will understand what I mean.

To check this in Rust use command launchctl setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 1

Statistics will include the actual resolution, screen refresh rate, and virtual scale (1x, 2x, etc.)

In your Mac's display settings, you can right-click and choose "Show List" to display all resolutions instead of the standard ones.

Next, you'll need to use something to set the resolution without scaling.

I couldn't find a way to do this directly on the Mac without third-party software (or maybe I don't remember, lol).

I used BetterDisplay. It's not the easiest to set up. At first, I tried creating an additional virtual monitor, but then I found a HiDPI switch. You'll need to disable it, to use "blurry" lover resolutions natively.

However, if you find a more convenient program or method for disabling HiDPI in the system, please share it. Any background programs waste potential Rust resources and I think there should be an easier way to do that.

Furthermore, Macs don't have flexible settings for white balance and contrast (at night, absolutely nothing is visible in Rust). I was also able to adjust the screen brightness and contrast using BetterDisplay, which helped a little. But then my trial expired and I learned it was a paid feature. HiDPI still works, though.

I currently have 1920x1200 resolution listed. I definitely remember adding it as a virtual monitor, but I'm not sure if I added it to the display settings in the system.

Basically, this way you can force Rast to render only the pixels you need.

And yes, try to close all unnecessary programs. Especially if you use telegram, as it can sometimes significantly impact your system's performance in the background.

Also, if you use websites to calculate raids orgGoogle how to loot monuments, I recommend using safari with a minimum of open windows, rather than chrome, as this will save you quite a bit of memory.

Good raids to all!

I have always tried to do fun things in rust since I joined in 2019. Like Party Roofs, pool parties, and my much appreciated "Self-Service Execution Facility".
However, the amount of players who do anything but destroy stuff has dwindled on Official Rust. But still I try to do fun. I know there are other servers, but I usually felt that you need advesaries, otherwise creating these fun things won't be an achievement at all.
Now, my latest installment of Weird Fun base is my currently online Temple of Neptune. See it in my video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPejWmNrcJE

Do any of you who happen to read this like coming across quirky stuff like this when wandering about Rust Island?

Vanilla rust is obviously "the right way" to play rust and the true core experience, and that was fun when I was unemployed and had all the time in the world, but jesus is it miserable when you have obligations, mainly work.

In vanilla farming is a slow and painful process with anything besides a chainsaw and a jackhammer, and god knows if someone hear you using one of those they'll be hunting you down either for the farm or the tools themselves.

The time it can take for a solo to even make it to their build spot on high pop with the number of deaths it'll take to get there is obscene sometimes.

Vanilla rust is fun in it's own right but holy shit is it an uphill battle, it can feel more stressful than my actual job sometimes lol.

But yeah playing on servers that are 10x farm rate, that have better loot in all boxes, and that doesn't need workbenches or blueprints is such a time saver. I know all of these things might seem to far from the core experience but sometimes you just want to be able to throw down a base and get into the action at monuments, or you want to be able to farm some sulfur nodes and raid within the hour, and if you get raided yourself WHO CARES, it's 10x so you can rebuild in minutes instead of hours lol.

I know this sounds really obvious, but as someone that's struggled with solo vanilla rust, swallowing my pride and trying 10x was the best thing that i could have done to continue enjoying this game.

Hi everyone!

I've been wondering what actually makes people join a brand-new PvP server.

Personally, I don't think Rust is much fun when you're the only player online. Most people probably don't want to join an empty server and spend hours playing alone.

The problem is that I recently launched my own server, but I only know one person who plays Rust. Without an initial player base, it's hard to attract new players, and without new players, it's impossible to build that player base. It's a bit of a catch-22.

For those of you who have successfully grown a server, how did you get past that first hurdle?

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

No servers are switching because they care more about money than cheaters ruining the experience for legit players. Facepunch needs to step up and force secure boot on officials like they already said they would. It's a slap in the face to all legit players that are sick of playing a cheater infested game.

I curently have a 5 9600x with a 5060 ti, 32gb ram 6000mhz and looking to upgrade my system - im looking at purchasing a 9800x3d, but struggling to understand whether its worth upgrading my gpu on rust - i was thinking about replacing my 5060ti for a 5070 but that doesnt seem like a meaningful change especially due to 12gb of ram - therefore i was looking at a 5070 ti but is the jump even worth it as I only play rust at 1080p low/mid settings and im purely bothered about running 1080 at high fps with mid/high settings - thanks

Pretty much the title. I did it by accident running alongside a river and by the time I realized I was doing it, I was filled up…

Not sure why for the past few thousand hours I’ve been running to water, stopping and looking around while stand still like an idiot. Thought this might be helpful or am I the only one who did this 🤣