Questions tagged [rust]

Rust is a zombie-survival game in similar vein to DayZ and Infestation: Survivor Stories. It is notable for having resource gathering and a crafting/building system. Its lead designer is Garry Newman, of "Garry's Mod" fame. Rust alpha was released in late 2013.

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Is rust an MMORPG or is the game limited to small servers?

I can't find anything specifically talking about this. If I made an account and my friend made an account without any planning / server selection between the two of us, could we play together?
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How to stop people from settling in our area?

How can I prevent people from building at a specific area? I'm not talking about the size of 1 or 5 cupboards, but the entire hacker-valley (see map below, north east). The first Idea was to greate a wall along the riverborder to riverlands-north.…
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What can I break and how long does it take to break it?

There are various structures in the game, walls, doors, doorways, stairs, ramps, ceilings, pillars, foundations that can be made out of wood or metal. What can I break with my hatchet/pickaxe and how long does it take? What can I blow up with…
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What is the weapon damage range formula?

When a gun is firing past the "effective damage range," what is the formula to calculate how much damage it does? For example a Thompson does 38 damage and has an effective range of 90 meters, when I am shooting someone at 100 meters, how much…
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As a server admin, how do I change the decay rate in Rust?

I can see that there's a decay rate server variable here, but I can't find anywhere on the internet how the values work. Will 0 disable it? How do I make it really slow? or really fast? Can I just change the value and then run the save.all command?
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What supplies can only be found in plane-drops?

Some supplies can never be found in random crates, only crates dropped by planes. Which supplies are these?
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Can a tool cupboard be moved?

I have expanded a base in rust to have multiple floors. Now, I'd like to move my tool cupboard to the upper floor for added security. Is this possible? I don't see an option to pick up the tool cupboard, and I don't seem to be able to place a second…
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Can I Toggle Grass

I used to play rust loads during the legacy days and have just recently got back into playing this updated version of the game I remember being able to toggle the grass in the old game and this was useful to help stop lagging but the command doesn't…
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How to destroy an own ceiling?

We created a three floor house in the middle of the mountain and we would like now to expand it by creating additional floors. But it seems that C4 does not work on ceilings, so we are blocked at the moment. Is there any other option?
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How to enter a custom server

How do you enter a server by IP address? I have tried many things already for hours at a time looking for the custom server entry field.
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How to increase FPS using console commands?

On my laptop Rust is not running very well, probably because it is not yet optimized due to early alpha stage. I found a couple of settings that can be enabled in console that increase the FPS a bit: grass.on false grass.displacement false Are…
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Is there a hotkey for the crafting window?

Often when I open the Inventory window with Tab, the crafting window is minimized and I have to click the Crafting button to open the window. Is there a keyboard shortcut I can use to open the Crafting window?
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Rust map with locations?

How do the locations in Rust obtained from /location correspond with the world map? What are the locations of the rad towns?
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How long do ingame items last before they disappear

There are boxes, wooden structures and metal structures. How many days does it take for the to disappear. There are also corpses that disappear after a certain amount of time.
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How do I enable the nudity filter?

I want to disable nudity by adding the pixelated filter I see in youtube videos like this one (seen best at 1m16s and 1m34s): How do I do that?
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