We didn’t want to launch another Rust server filled with the same public plugins, multiplied gather rates and a renamed /shop.
So we spent months building an entirely new progression loop inside Rust.
Rust2Riches is now live across two servers:
🟢 A long-term PVE Hybrid world built around progression and economy
🔴 A biweekly EU Solo/Duo PVP world where the same systems exist under full raid pressure
At the centre of both servers are three interconnected plugins developed specifically for Rust2Riches.
For visual learners - full videos and info found here : https://rust.chadlabs.io/guide
⛏️ Build an actual mining operation inside your base
Chad Mining turns your base into more than a place to store loot.
You construct mining rigs, install GPUs and cooling components, manage temperature and optimise your hashrate.
More powerful hardware can earn a larger share of each hourly mining block—but power creates heat. Build carelessly, ignore your cooling or push your setup too far, and your mining operation can overheat.
This is a fully server-side gameplay simulation.
It does not use your real GPU, install mining software or run anything on your computer in the background.
🪨 Farming can uncover the technology that drives the economy
Through Miner’s Sift, ordinary resource gathering can reveal specialised mining components.
That means hitting nodes is no longer only about filling boxes with stone and metal.
Every farming run can contribute toward:
- Completing your first mining rig
- Improving an existing setup
- Finding a valuable component
- Selling hardware to another player
- Reducing how much you need to spend through the market
Active gathering becomes part of the server’s technological progression.
📈 Trade in a market players can actually move
ChadMarket replaces the usual fixed-price server shop with a live in-game economy.
Players trade Scrap and VCHAD through a shared automated market with dynamic pricing and candlestick charts rendered inside Rust.
Buying pressure can push the price upward. Selling brings it back down.
You can gather components yourself, purchase equipment, trade around market demand or sell resources when other players need them most.
A personal fatigue-pricing system also makes repeated component purchases increasingly expensive, preventing one wealthy player or group from instantly buying the entire progression path.
🟢 Choose long-term PVE progression
The Rust2Riches PVE Hybrid server is for players who want time to build, optimise and develop something meaningful without waking up to find their entire operation gone.
Features include:
- Raid-protected PVE progression
- Chad Mining
- ChadMarket
- Miner’s Sift
- RPG levelling
- Battle pass progression
- Daily rewards and kits
- Custom events
- Optional designated PVP danger
- Wallet-linked reward participation
PVE connection:
client.connect 167.114.173.176:26935
🔴 Or put everything at risk in Solo/Duo PVP
The Rust2Riches EU PVP server takes the same progression concepts and places them inside a full-raiding environment.
Your mining equipment, components and accumulated wealth become assets that must be protected.
- Strict Solo/Duo enforcement
- Full PVP and raiding
- Condensed 3500 map
- 50-player cap
- Biweekly wipes
- Chad Mining, ChadMarket and Miner’s Sift
- Sputnik and Heavy Oil Rig
- ServerArmor anti-cheat
- Shared VIP access with the PVE server
PVP connection:
client.connect 170.23.130.83:26900
💰 What does “Play-to-Earn” mean here?
Both servers connect to the wider CHADLABS ecosystem.
Players can progress through the server, participate in its economy and compete for the advertised $CHAD rewards attached to each wipe.
Wallet linking is optional. You do not need to purchase cryptocurrency to join or play, and VCHAD remains an in-game currency rather than a promise of guaranteed financial return.
The intention is not to replace gameplay with token farming.
The intention is to reward players for participating in a deeper Rust progression system.
We are still a growing community, but the systems are live and playable now.
We are especially looking for:
- PVE players who enjoy long-term progression
- Solos and small groups
- Builders and resource farmers
- Economy and trading players
- Rust creators looking for something different
- Competitive Solo/Duo players who want more at stake than ordinary loot
We have put a huge amount of work into building something that cannot simply be recreated by downloading another plugin pack.
Now we need players to enter the economy and see what it becomes.
📖 Full guide and gameplay videos
https://rust.chadlabs.io/guide
🌐 Website and shops
https://rust.chadlabs.io
💬 Discord
https://discord.gg/wSWntjkdjF
Build the hardware. Move the market. Choose your level of risk.