Rust: Frequently Asked Questions
How Do I Buy Rust?
Rust is available through the Steam Store.
How Do I Kill Myself?
Open Console: Click (F1)
Type: kill
Click ESC on your keyboard and navigate to the side bar on the left side and click “Respawn”
This has a 1-minute cooldown, so there is no spamming!
How Do I Turn Off Grass?
You can't turn off grass.
You can, however, tweak your settings to make it less obnoxious/improve your performance.
Do not type quit.grass you will crash your game
How Do I Use Voice Chat?
The default voice communication key is V.
Your character's mouth will move.
Voice is range/location-based. The closer you are, the louder your voice will be, so listen carefully and be careful when speaking openly!
How Does Building Work?
Read more about it in our guide: Building: What You Need To Know
Did The Server Wipe?
Rust changes so rapidly and so often that many updates require the Map to be wiped. If the server was wiped, browse the server list and look at the description (most servers put the last wipe / next wipe info in there).
Each server has "Tags" that help players understand the map wipe schedule: "Weekly," "Bi-Weekly," or " Monthly. "Vanilla" and "Modded" are used to identify the type of server.
Facepunch (Rust Develpers) Updates Monthly Schedule. Minor updates often happen on Thursdays each week or anytime if a hotfix is immediately required.
With each Update, they release a dev blog explaining the current changes and plans for future updates.
The Update on the First Thursday of each month is accompanied by a Forced Wipe, which means all servers to are updated/wiped.
Check out our Update Stream every Thursday starting at 2 PM EST!
For Rustafied server wipe information, check out our Discord and the #Announcement Channels or our Server Info page.
What Are Blueprints?
Learning blueprints unlocks a crafting recipe for an item, which allows the player who learned the blueprint to craft and repair that learned item in the future.
Blueprints can be learned using the research tables or by using the Tech tree. The blueprints for the lower-tier items can be found on the Map.
Check out our Blueprint Guide!
What’s With Barrels, Crates, And Boxes Around The Map?
They are all lootable and the easiest way to find components, items, tools, and low-level blueprints for crafting!
Can I Swim?
Yes, you can!
You will not take damage falling into deep water or from high distances.
Staying underwater too long will cause you to drown. An orange indicator bar will appear over your health stats, letting you know when you are drowning, and you will begin to lose health the longer you drown rapidly.
There is a wetness percentage; the higher the wetness percentage, the colder you can be. This changes between biomes and at different times of day or night.
You can dry off by standing by a fire or going to a warmer biome.
Putting on clothes or wearing clothes will keep you warm, but beware: metal or road sign armor will make you colder than without it.
Is Fall Damage On?
Yes, and it can be brutal.
If you take less than 20 fall damage, no one will know, but if you take over 20 fall damage, anyone around will hear a loud crunch sound of your character's legs breaking.
How Do I Go Into 3rd Person?
Users cannot go into the third person, which is exclusive to admins only.
Do Sleeping Bags Work?
They are crafted with 30 cloth.
A player can only have 15 Bags assign to them.
When they are first placed, they are assigned to you.
You can assign them to other players or pick them up by holding E on them and selecting the different options like "Give to Friend.
You can place down multiple bags nearby, but all bags within 20 foundations of the last one used will share a cooldown.
They have a 300 second cooldown.
Beds
Beds cost a bit more and require components but only have a 120-second cooldown. Beds will also have a shared cooldown if they're too close.
They must be place on a foundation or roof surface within the building privilege.
Beds can be picked up using a hammer.
Beds can be set to public and claimed by another player.
Do I Have To Eat/Drink?
Yes. Metabolism is an important factor in Rust.
When you're starving and at 0 food, you will lose 1 health every ~10 seconds.
When you're dehydrated, you won't be able to run.
You can eat and drink almost any food you can find; make sure your food isn't raw.
Meats can be cooked using a Campfire or BBQ. Make sure not to burn your meat.
Cooked human meat will dehydrate you, and pickles can sometimes make you sick, causing severe dehydration and health loss.
How Do I View My FPS?
Open Setting Menu: Click (ESC) —> Options
Options —> "FPS Counter"
Have shitty FPS? Check out our guide for Improving FPS In Rust .
Is There A New Map?
Yes, maps are generally procedurally generated based on a seed number and world size. There are 10's of millions of possible seeds, but not all are great.
Rustafied uses Custom Maps to provide the best player experience.
The world size varies from 1000 to 6000 (the default is 4000). Pressing the letter "G" in the game will display the current server map with handy coordinates.
Can You Teleport?
Users cannot teleport on Vanilla Servers; it's only for admins. If you're trying to find a friend, please check out our guide on Finding Friends In Rust.
Can I Destroy Doors, Walls And Other Building Parts?
Yes, however, any building block above the twig only takes a very little damage from a stone hatchet or rock. See more info on our guide, Building Upgrades: What You Need to Know.
Where Are The Animals?
Animals can be found throughout the Map, with polar bears only found in the snow or in an area very close to the snow. Fish can be found in the ocean, lakes, or rivers, with Sharks and rare fish found only in deeper water.
Do Animals Hurt You?
Yes, Wolves, Boars, Sharks, and Bears are fast and deadly. Avoid them until you have the proper gear to take them on. Deer and Chickens may also attack but in a less deadly manner. Horses are harmless.
What's The Best Tool?
Are you just getting started? Your Rock will be your best friend.
The Hunting Bow and Crossbow is best for hunting animals, and a stone spear is best for PvP early on.
Bone Knife and Metal hatchets are best for harvesting animals, and a Salvaged axe is best for harvesting wood.
Salvaged Ice Pick is best for harvesting stone nodes, with the fastest gather time and durability.
For raiding, hatchets and pickaxes are best for outside wood and stone walls. For sheet Metal and High-Quality, it's best to use C4 and Rockets.
How Do You Get Metal Frags?
Gather "Metal Ore" from farming Metal Nodes and gather metal from small piles found on the ground.
Kill some animals or other humans, and get animal fat and cloth. Craft it into Low-Grade Fuel.
You'll need 50 Low-Grade Fuel, 100 Wood, and 200 Stone to create a furnace where you will cook the ore.
Throw some wood and some ore, and turn it on.
Alternatively, you could use one of the many recyclers at Monuments throughout the Map. Many components can be recycled for Metal Frags and other components like Cloth and Rope.
Does Clothing Or Armor Provide Protection?
We have a helpful guide over Here.
How Do I Get Guns?
You can either find them in loot crates, airdrops or helicopter loot boxes, find the components to craft them around the map in crates and barrels after learning them via the blueprint system, or kill someone and take theirs! Check out: Guns in Rust
Is That A Helicopter?
Yes, that patrol helicopter spawns every couple hours and patrols the Map for about 15 minutes.
It is extremely deadly and will attack if you have any guns or more than two pieces of higher-tier armor in your Belt Bar.
Yes, you can fight it. Make sure you have a helicopter base set up and enough supplies. It takes hundreds of shots directly on the rotors to take down, and it will fire at you with a deadly M249 or Minigun.
If you have building authorization, it will shoot rockets at you multiple times, regular and incendiary. This beast can level your base if you're not careful.