Rust: The Ultimate Survival Test

 

Rust is a true test of survival skills, not just from cold, hunger and the occasional zombie attack. But also from players in a ruthless, unforgiving world. You wake up in rust with only a pair of jeans (or completely naked if you turn the censor off), a rock, a few bandages and a torch. Your aim, to survive, can only be achieved by harvesting food and materials. Eventually, you can manage to build yourself a shelter and fire to cook with (all the time worrying if someone is going to come along and blow it all to smithereens).
 

You can craft basic weapons from wood and stone which is easy to collect, but more advanced weapons require blueprints. Once studied, you will have the ability to craft the weapon as much as you want – provided you have the materials. The other way to get them, is to kill zombies, raid storage boxes, or steal them from other players. There are players in the game who will seek out new players and kill them just for fun. Unfortunately in the current state of the game there is nothing stopping them from doing this and no negative consequences.

This makes it difficult for single players to establish themselves early on if they are on a high populated server. Your only hope is to attempt to survive with a group of friends, or join another group. Although most groups kill on sight, probably from fear of being attacked. The hardest part of Rust is the beginning stage, even finding your friends is a challenge as the map is huge and filled with dangers. Your best part is to use the ‘suicide’ command until you spwan near to a landmark which you can use as a meet-up point.

Once you have formed a mighty fortress, your aim is to protect it with your life. You can craft sleeping bags which allow you to set a spawn point and you can hide away all your loot in storage boxes. Most players will be inside during the night as it is mostly pitch black, this is arguably the safest time to go outside as there will be fewer players. Although be wary of using any light source which will make you can easy target for night time lurkers. Eventually you will encounter other bases on the server, and it may end up in a full blown out war. The main lesson you need to learn from Rust, is don’t get too attached to anything you own and you will be fine.

 

 

If you die in Rust, you will lose all the items you had on you and it will be free loot for anyone standing near your corpse. And if someone is nice enough to blow a hole in your house with C4 (as I have experienced) you can always prepare for this by giving them the ultimate middle finger – dropping all your best loot on the floor so it despwans and they get nothing.