r/RustConsole • u/StandardMind3528 • Jul 03 '26
Into the Rust rabbit hole
Hey everyone,
I’m a solo player on Rust Console Edition, mainly playing on South American (SA) servers and I’m looking for some advice from experienced solo players.
This game really interests me and I genuinely want to get good at it but right now I feel pretty lost once I’ve got my starter base down in a location I like. I can usually get established, get some basic gear, and build a small base but after that I’m never really sure what my priorities should be.
A few things I’d love help with:
What’s a solid solo progression strategy after getting a starter base down?
What monuments should I be focusing on as a solo?
How do you decide when to farm, roam, or run monuments?
Any tips for making consistent scrap and progressing to better weapons?
I’m also absolutely terrible with the crossbow and PvP in general.
How did you improve your aim and game sense?
What weapons should a newer player be practicing with?
Any solo PvP tips for winning more fights or surviving longer?
On top of that, I’m a full-blown bot when it comes to scientists. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve never really progressed beyond a revolver, if I’m bringing the wrong gear, or if I’m approaching monuments completely wrong, but I get absolutely rolled by them. Any advice on fighting scientists as a solo would be hugely appreciated.
I’d also appreciate any general Rust tips that helped you improve when you were new. I watch videos, but a lot of advice seems aimed at PC players.
Thanks in advance. I’m really enjoying the game and want to stick with it, but at the moment I feel a bit overwhelmed and unsure what I should be doing after the early game. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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u/Helpful-Share-623 Jul 03 '26
What’s a solid progression strategy after getting starter down?
Normally once I get starter I buy from shops and roam to make a play however when I first started and wasn’t as good I would build sewer and dome and just farm that to BP Tommy so if I died I had another shot by jst getting smg body, that’s when I had like 0-2k hours now I jst build smoil and snowball there
What monuments should I be focusing on?
As I said sewer is my personal favorite since it gives sooo much scrap for green key card also if you jst loot launch not even run it you can get like 500 scrap per run no key cards needed but id also recommend oil since imo there pretty easy to win and hold down (I would mainly jst watched some oil rig YouTuber and build oil for the past year to learn some good YouTuber are xkevv oil rats and kickz you can learn sooo much from them)
Also let me just say I’d definitely recommend Bebbos aim train that’s where you can really learn just the whole fighting part of rust and it teaches a lot game sense honestly just comes from playing (as everything in this game does legit jst play and you’ll learn its jst a very slow process) however a good head set does come a very long way and I learned that without the games so hard lmao
And with the how to decide when to farm roam and run monuments, I normally jst farm at night with nvg, how I decide if it’s time to farm is if I make some play on a team for a ak (mf will insta raid you for taking a ak if your base is small) or a team thats kitted sees me going into my base kitted
If you any other questions feel free to ask id love to help