Rust Guides
Practical, up-to-date guides for every part of Rust — from your first wipe to end-game raiding.
50 Rust Tips That Actually Save Wipes
50 Rust tips that hold up under pressure — spawn survival, scrap farming, base building, monument runs, PvP habits, and endgame raiding, with the tools to back each one up.
Best Rust Settings for FPS & PvP
The best Rust settings for max FPS and cleaner PvP — graphics config, launch options and low-end PC tweaks that actually make a difference, and the ones that don't.
Best Rust Weapons 2026: Gun Tier List & What to Run
A Rust weapons tier list from a real player: damage, capacity and workbench for every gun, plus honest early/mid/late picks and what to actually run.
Can You Play Rust Solo? A Survival Guide
Yes, you can play Rust solo. Here's how to build hidden, avoid zergs, raid on a budget, and pick servers that don't crush you.
How to Get Cloth in Rust (Every Method)
How to get cloth in Rust: hemp picking and farming, animal harvesting, and recycling rope, sewing kits and tarp — with real yields and a fastest-route verdict.
How to Get High Quality Metal (HQM) in Rust
Every way to get high quality metal in Rust ranked: recycling weapon bodies and tech trash, smelting HQM ore, and the crates that drop it — with real yields.
How to Get Low Grade Fuel in Rust (Every Method)
How to get low grade fuel in Rust: the animal fat + cloth recipe, crude oil refining, and the elite crate drop — with real ratios and a fastest-route verdict.
How to Get Metal Fragments in Rust (Fastest Ways)
How to get metal fragments in Rust: smelting metal ore, the components that recycle into frags, and metal detector digs — real rates and a fastest-route verdict.
How to Make a Rust Server (2026 Setup Guide)
Set up your own Rust dedicated server with SteamCMD, server.cfg, a start.bat, Oxide plugins, admin, and port forwarding. Plus honest self-host vs host tips
How to Make Gunpowder in Rust (Recipe & Farming Route)
How to make gunpowder in Rust: the 30 charcoal + 20 sulfur recipe, where both ingredients come from, what your boom actually costs, and the fastest farming route.
How to Vote in Rust: Server Voting & /claim Rewards
How voting works in Rust — vote for your server on ranking sites like Rust-Servers.net, then type /claim in chat for rewards. The full flow, why claims fail, and what to expect.
Rust Aim & Sensitivity Guide: Best Settings
The best aim sensitivity for Rust: 400-800 DPI, 0.2-0.5 in-game. Plus recoil control on the AK and SAR, ADS multipliers, FOV, and aim training.
Rust Armor Guide: Best Kits, Protection Values & What to Wear When
The Rust armor kit ladder from burlap to full metal: what a full metal kit is, every craft cost, bucket vs coffee can helmets, heavy plate, armor inserts, the hazmat trade-off, and what to wear when.
Rust Base Design Guide: Build to Survive (2026)
A no-BS Rust base design guide: building tiers, upkeep, tool cupboards, bunkers, airlocks and honeycomb, plus the raid costs that actually matter.
Rust Beginner's Guide (2026): Your First Wipe
New to Rust? Here's exactly what to do on your first wipe — gathering, your first base, tools, scrap and staying alive. Real numbers, no fluff.
Rust Blueprints Guide: Research Costs, Tech Tree & BP Wipes
How Rust blueprints work: the research table, real scrap costs for the AK, C4 and more, tech tree vs researching, default BPs, and when blueprints wipe.
Rust Boats Guide: Every Watercraft, Prices & Where to Find Them
A hands-on Rust boats guide: kayak, rowboat, RHIB, tugboat, both submarines and the PT Boat — datamined health and fuel burn, the boat building system, the Deep Sea, and which boat is actually worth your scrap.
Rust Cars Guide: Finding, Building & Driving Modular Cars
A hands-on Rust cars guide: where to find a chassis, the 2/3/4-socket sizes, which modules are worth fitting, engine parts with real craft costs, the car lift workflow, driving, locks, and fuel.
Rust Chicken Guide: Coops, Eggs & Husbandry
A hands-on Rust chicken guide: how to get your first egg from a wild chicken, the Chicken Coop, the four needs that keep hens alive, and the egg loop.
Rust Cloning Guide: Copy a God Plant Forever
Cloning copies a plant's exact 6-gene genome with no rolling. How to clone, run a mother plant, keep clones pure, and when to clone vs re-breed.
Rust Cooking & Food Guide: Eat, Cook, Survive
A first-hand Rust cooking guide: campfire vs BBQ, the best foods to eat, water and hydration, spoilage and fridges, plus tea buffs.
Rust Crafting Guide: Workbenches, BPs & Recipes
A Rust crafting guide: how workbenches, blueprints and the tech tree work, why components bottleneck you, and the recipes worth your scrap first.
Rust Drone Guide: How to Fly, Controls & What Drones Are Actually For
How drones work in Rust: crafting one for 200 metal frags + a CCTV camera, flying it from a Computer Station, the full controls, range limits, and what drones are actually useful for.
Rust Electricity Guide 2026: Wiring for Solos
Stop your turrets dying at night. Practical Rust electricity guide: rW, solar, wind, batteries, wiring and the only circuits a solo actually needs.
Rust Elevator Guide: Fast Vertical Movement
A practical Rust elevator guide: wiring power, stacking pieces, setting up call switches, and fixing dead, misaligned, or won't-stack lifts.
Rust Fishing Guide: How to Fish, Bait & Loot Tips
A first-hand Rust fishing guide: how to fish, rods, bait, best spots, the reel-in mechanic, fish traps, and whether fishing is actually worth your time.
Rust Flying Guide: Minicopter, Scrap Heli & Attack Helicopter
How to fly in Rust: getting a minicopter, scrap transport heli, attack helicopter or hot air balloon, the real controls, fuel burn numbers, datamined stats, repairs, parachutes, landing tips and SAM sites.
Rust Furnace Guide: Smelting Ratios, Large vs Electric & Wood Math
Every Rust furnace compared: craft costs, 1:1 smelting ratios, exact wood per ore for all three tiers, Electric Furnace power draw, and when to upgrade.
Rust Horse Guide: Taming, Gear, Care & Why Horses Still Matter
A hands-on Rust horse guide: where to find and buy horses, the saddle claim system, riding and leading controls, datamined health and seat count, horse shoes, armor and saddle bags, feeding at a Hitch & Trough, dung farming, and when a horse beats a vehicle.
Rust Keycards: Green, Blue & Red — How to Get Each One
How to get Green, Blue and Red Keycards in Rust, which monuments need which color, and the fastest route from your first Green card to a Red one.
Rust Metal Detector Guide: How It Works & What You Dig Up
How the Rust metal detector actually works: where to get one, the sweep-beep-flag-dig loop step by step, what you find underground, and whether it's worth a slot.
Rust Monument Tier List: Where to Loot & Avoid
A Rust monument tier list ranked from beginner-safe to end-game: radiation levels, keycard puzzles, recyclers, and the gear you need for each.
Rust Plant Genetics Guide 2026: Genes & Cloning
How Rust plant genetics actually work: the 6 genes, crossbreeding, cloning a god clone, and the best crops to farm. Real tactics, no fluff.
Rust Progression Guide 2026: Wipe to Endgame
A wipe-day-to-endgame Rust progression roadmap: scrap first, WB1 to WB3, first gun to AK, then C4 raids. Do it in this order.
Rust Quarries Guide: Sulfur, HQM, Pump Jacks & the Giant Excavator
How Rust's static quarries work, with verified per-diesel yields: the sulfur, HQM, and stone quarries, pump jacks and crude oil, diesel logistics, and when the Giant Excavator beats them all.
Rust Radiation Guide: Hazmat, Rad Protection & Every Monument's Rad Level
How radiation works in Rust, the hazmat suit's real 50% rad protection, the craft cost, gear tiers for low/medium/high rad monuments, and every monument's radiation level in one table.
Rust Raid Guide 2026: Boom Costs, Tools & Defence
A real player's Rust raid guide: exact sulfur costs per structure, C4 vs rockets vs satchels vs eco raiding, online/offline tactics and defence.
Rust Recycling Guide: Scrap, HQM & Components
What to recycle in Rust for scrap, HQM, and components, what to never feed the recycler, and the always-recycle list every player should memorize.
Rust Scrap Farming Guide: Fastest Scrap Early
The best Rust scrap farming sources ranked: recycling, road barrels, monument crates, diving crates, cargo and oil rig. Plus a fastest-scrap early routine.
Rust Tea Guide: Buffs, Recipes & Best Teas
A hands-on Rust tea guide: what teas do, the wood/ore/scrap and health buffs, Basic to Pure tiers, the mixing table recipes, and the teas worth brewing.
Rust Tech Tree Guide: Best Unlock Path Per Tier
How the Rust tech tree works, scrap costs, tech tree vs research table, and exactly what to unlock first at WB1, WB2, and WB3.
Rust Tool Cupboard Guide: Building Privilege, Upkeep & Decay
How the tool cupboard works in Rust: building privilege and the 50m radius, daily upkeep costs, decay timers for every tier, and how to place and protect your TC.
Rust Traps & Turrets Guide: Auto Turrets, Shotgun Traps & SAM Sites
Every base defense in Rust: auto turret, shotgun trap, flame turret, SAM site, and the cheap floor traps — real craft costs, power draws, HP, and where to actually place them.
Rust Trophy Guide: Every Achievement Unlock
A Rust trophy guide to all the Steam achievements, grouped by kills, crafting, survival and monuments, with a quick how-to for the ones that take real work.
Rust Underwater Labs Guide: Getting There, Loot & Surviving the Dive
How to get to Rust's Underwater Labs by submarine or diving gear, what the lab crates actually drop, the keycard rooms, sharks, and how to get back out alive.
Rust Wipe Explained: Force, Weekly & BP Wipes
What a Rust wipe is, force wipe vs weekly vs blueprint wipe, the schedule, what actually resets, and how to find fresh servers. PC and console.
Tech Trash in Rust: How to Get It & What It's For
Where tech trash drops in Rust — real crate chances from the game files — what it crafts (C4, turrets, CCTV), and when to recycle it instead.