How to Play Rust (If You Sleep, You Lose)

𝟏 - You must never go offline. If you do, you are responsible for every rocket that pounds your base. This is like putting your loaded wallet on a park bench in a busy city then going home to snooze expecting it to still be there the next day. When you sleep or go to work you're essentially turning your base and all the goop you spent hours grinding for into a defenseless loot cache for the real players of rust to scoop up and sift through like its Christmas morning. Don't be that guy. Buy stimulants, run night shift cycles with the homies, or grow a pair of balls if you are going to play rust. This ♥♥♥♥ is NOT for the employed, weak, or the casual gamer if this is you go play animal crossing.

𝟐 - If a player tries to be friendly, such as gesturing emotes like waving, or giving away loot to new players, exploit their trust and raid them off the rip, this game is not for lollipop licking deadbeats. The rust community needs to be cleansed of people like this as it is a plague running rampant in modern day rust and spreads like a disease.

𝟑 - Some people get on the game just to type all day and sit in their base doing fck all, if this is you, there is no hope for you in rust as you are an attention-seeking cringe fck up. If you're going to type in rust, it must be for a real reason such as asking base location, ♥♥♥♥ talking the farm bots of rust who can't aim, telling typers to shut the fck up, or letting the whole server know you own the monument youre on and that they're primlocked.

4 - Before you even touch another server, you need to work on improving your aim. Find an aim training server in the modded section and spend the next 2,000 hours of gameplay exclusively on oil rig pvp. There's no point for you to even play the game if you haven't figured out every crevasse, rat peak and jump up that these monuments have to offer. If you don't, you die every time, and those who have learned will sift through your inventory each time you pull up. Alternatively, you can dive into the moon pool of oilrig (or the sausage) and camp with a shotgun away from the glass so the divers who jump in wont see you there. This is the most commendable meta in the game right now, but you must choose one of these options. Rinse and repeat for every monument in the game.

5 - Once you have 2k hours of pvp in each monument, you can defend yourself from the most vital threat rust has to offer; other people. Though, the animals in rust can be equally deadly for the brainless nakeds who have no common sense. This brings us to our next discussion.

Animals can be a difficult threat too, approximately 125,000 nakeds on the beach die each wipe to AI alone such as boars, wolves, and bears according to steam charts.

6 - Lets break down these scenarios so you never die from AI again, because its honestly so embarrassing to witness. I have not died from an AI in 4 years of playing rust and every time I see it I find the name of the body and flame them in the chat. If a hungry bear approaches you, place down a triangle foundation. I shouldn't even have to say it because Rust's game logic is seamless with reality, though I see so many homeless grubs mauled with hella goop on their corpse when they had all the wood in the forest to place down a simple twig foundation. Bears don't fck with triangles at all, its common knowledge for anyone who hunts in real life, and it works in rust too. Run them in circles around the foundation and shoot them with a bow or whatever weapon you have. Now that you know this they are no longer threats but just lowgrade to be harvested and crafted into furnaces.

7 - Wolves will leave you alone if you just talk to them sensibly and with confidence, they are the most rational creatures in Rust. Make sure to project loudly with your mic on the many reasons they shouldn't eat you, and they are fairly easy to convince. Most of the time, if you say in proximity chat that you have a lot of loot that you can't afford to lose and you'd rather them not bite you since your low on health, they will understand and walk away. But if you lost too much aura from dying to AI or skipped any of these tips, they can sometimes bite you anyways because they don't have respect for you, so stay true to these methods.


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