Tips For Finding Your Friends In Rust
Rust is meant to be played with friends. That being said, it can be extremely difficult to actually meet up with your friends in game.
First and most important, make sure you’re all on the same server!
Gifting a Sleeping Bag
One of the quickest ways to get everyone together is to have the first person who finds enough cloth by collecting hemp plants, recycling tarp, and rope, or killing enough animals to make a sleeping bag (30 cloth/per bag) and assign it to your friend to spawn on.
Hold E on the bag, and you’ll be given a radial menu to choose from. Clicking on “Give To Friend” will open a list of the current players on the server, along with your friends on Steam, at the top.
You Can Search For Specify Players Names In The Search Bar
Bag Timer's Persist After Gifting, They’re Not Instant
Bags can be picked up and reassigned, so if you’re struggling to make multiple bags, you can have people reassign the bag to the next person once they spawn on it. Remember that the sleeping bag has a 300-second cooldown, so while this will save you clothes, it’ll take a while before everyone’s in the same spot.
A single player may only have a Max of 15 assigned bags or beds, including gifted ones.
Server Mapping
Hitting “G” in game brings up a copy of the world map including coordinates to easily exchange location information.
Get In The Same Biome
Rust has 3 main biomes: Desert, Forest, and Snow. If you’re in different biomes, one of you can either keep F1 kill respawning (which has a 60-second cooldown) or ask a kind naked to kill you over and over until you’re in the same biome.
Screenshots Or Stream Your Location
Still struggling to find each other? Have each of you take a screenshot of your current vantage point and send it to each other. You can also stream via Discord or another platform that allows video streaming.