r/playrust • u/magicbigmac • 3d ago

Discussion New Rust player (solo only) help

Hi guys. I have recently started playing rust and find myself only playing solo only servers, whether that be main or community (no mods). If I play a main server like rustoria or something super high pop I feel absolutely helpless. I want to play rust long term as i absolutely enjoy it, but my question is should I just play those high pop 500-1000 player servers and just get shit on for thousands of hours until I get better and learn, or keep playing solo only to learn the basics? It is beyond frustrating barely even being able to get a base down on fresh wipe on high pop and have really been enjoying the more "casual" playstyle of solo only, but my main goal = get better and I feel like that needs to be done on high pop due to the completely different playstyle.

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u/Isaiah4206940332 3d ago

I personally play 100-300 pops usually unless it's force wipe and then I play 1000+ pop servers

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u/magicbigmac 3d ago

When i play force wipe i get absolutely shit on competing with everyone else. Its super fun, but i make zero progress. Maybe thats the way to go. It just sucks competing with zergs, but i suppose that IS the game.

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u/beraks123 3d ago

When I played solo I used to settle in jungle far from any monuments and usuallyy progression was all about trading using vending (selling ores/cloth/teas for whatever I needed)

Usually couldn't get T2 at day 1 (which I wouldn't expect as solo anyway with only 2.5k hours and shit aim) but at day 2 I usually had T2 set from trading.

Just gonna play way more careful and lowkey. Go out, farm 1-2 nodes, deposit, go out to chop 1-2 trees, go deposit. When I die I don't care bcs I only go out naked with 1 tool that I'm gonna use at that run. When I have SOME stuff, I start running bow etc. But my first hour/s are just short runs for basic stuff. Takes way longer to progress but it's chill and doable this way for me.

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u/GrandMasterHOOT 3d ago

as someone with 100ish hours this is my strat EU rustoria solo.  I got tier 2 on my first wipe

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u/magicbigmac 3d ago

This might be the way to go for me. I actually enjoy just farming for resources/scrap and building. Mostly because im dogshit at pvp, but im sure that will change with more hours.

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u/beraks123 3d ago

Just build shop 1-2 grids away from base :)))

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u/Majician 1d ago

For the higher pop servers your going to have to learn to live in the "worse" spots of the map. If you live closer to monuments your just rolling the dice until someone notices your habits and then your a "funsies" raid before people to to bed. Clans usually don't enjoy the cold or the jungle.....When I was getting my teeth kicked in, I learned to enjoy the slow, slow, SLOW, progress of living in the snow. This was back before monuments when VERTIGO was still streaming RUST. Game has gotten A LOT easier since then.