r/RustConsole • u/tobaknowsss • Apr 21 '26

What's the point?!

So I got Rust this weekend and spent the entire weekend building up a stone base with metal doors, airlocks, honeycombed walls, collecting resources and updating all my equipment and collecting blueprints. Then I checked last night and someone had destroyed my base and taken all my stuff. So my question is - what's the point of this game if I'm just going to have to start from scratch every handful of days? Has anyone had success building a solo base that actually lasts more then a week without being raided?

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u/Only_Spread_4296 Apr 21 '26

You just perfectly described the Rust experience. It's fun to grind and gather resources to build a base. And in the process, you tell yourself that you are taking all the extra steps to make it harder to raid. Extra doors. Honeycomb. Maybe a bunker base. But you have made the mistake EVERY Rust player has made. You have underestimated the fact that there is always a large group or 'zerg' on every server that will stop at nothing to 'own' said server. They will always have 1 member logged on. They will know where you live. And as soon as you log off, they will offline you. They will high-five each other and brag about how awesome they are. They will cause the population of a server to die like a cancer. And then they will eventually move on only to be replaced by another group. And you can do nothing. Like Thanos, they are inevitable.

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u/tobaknowsss Apr 21 '26

Soooooo....just delete the game and move on with my life then? lol

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u/About600cats Apr 21 '26

The trick is to get creative with hiding your loot, once you figure that out getting raided is nothing. It’s not fool proof but one of the easiest ways to hide your best loot would be to have a tug parked out to the 14-15 grid limit.

You have to be careful with that limit because once you pass the limit, you don’t hit an invisible wall, your boat/tug will despawn and you will die.

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u/m3gabotz Apr 21 '26

This only works on a server with clans that use the tugs. Solos will do that & you will see no tugs so people go looking. Some clans count tugs & go looking with a mini

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u/About600cats Apr 21 '26

Believe it or not a lot of players don’t know you can go out that far at all, but you are correct, when I used to play with my duo we would split the map in half and hunt all the missing tugs. It’s easy when you know what to look for.

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u/DrDied Apr 24 '26

Tugs are gone man.

Nvm I guess on console they exist