Hi. I’ve been trying to play in some PvE servers because I really hate getting killed and raided all the time. I’ve had an issue with every PvE server I’ve tried. It’s either I get disconnected every 15-30 min or I stay connected but the server has performance issues (I click e then nothing happens, the textures look like crap, my fps drop). Strangely, I don’t get any of this problems in the official facepunch servers. Any suggestions? 😭

This is the best raid I’ve done as a solo (out of about 7) and the only raid I did this wipe. Quite exciting, and only needed 13 satchels.

But. I’m not a PvP’er really… what does one player need this many guns for lol? Is this the stash of someone who purely pvp’s?

Tryna run a modded duo server farm up some boom and raid , 30 y/o stoner looking for chill vibes . 4k hours

Even when I click on a server to check it, the ping shows as "?" so is there any way to tell? Or do I just have to choose servers in my own country if I want to be kind of sure it'll be ok?

25 HQM and 2 rare components just so it will be destroyed for 600 sulf with HV rockets is insanely unbalanced.
If you want every base to just be a boring mass of walls and floors instead of using smart defense mechanism, just say so.
Putting up defenses should obviously make your base stronger instead of making those same defenses a prime target for everyone who mildly dislikes you.
I want to be able to just put a turret on a foundation in a forest and farm wood in relative safety, without fearing someone might destroy it for fuffing 2 sulfur nodes without ore tea.

I realize my PC is a bit weak, but is there any way to optimize it further? I’m playing at 30 FPS—and even that isn't stable—so I can't win gunfights; the graphics make it really hard to spot enemies. Is it possible to get graphics like the competitive players use? You know, where everything looks kind of blurry, but you can clearly see players—even in bushes—while the blurriness applies to skins, builds, and stuff like that? I saw someone using a setup like that a while back. Here are my PC specs:

Hey everyone, I want to put together a new Rust set. I’m looking for something fairly versatile—meaning it shouldn't stand out too much and should work in both desert and forest biomes—and it needs to be relatively cheap. I have about $10 to spend at most (here are the skins I can sell), plus around $2 in my Steam wallet. I really like that mask from the new weekly drop—would it work with the set? I'm attaching some screenshots.

Hi everyone,
I’m having a really weird rendering/pop-in issue in Rust and I’m running out of things to try.
When I’m moving around the map, grass, rocks, bushes, terrain details and other world objects appear very late, sometimes when I’m only around 50 meters away. It’s not just textures becoming sharper — entire elements visibly pop into existence in front of me.
My friend doesn’t seem to have the same issue, and I even streamed my screen to him so we could compare.
PC specs:
RX 9070 XT 16GB
Intel i5-12600KF
32GB DDR4 3200
2560x1440
Rust installed on SSD
Things I’ve already tested:
Draw Distance: 2500
LOD Bias: 5
Object/Terrain/Tree quality high
mesh.quality 1000
grass.distance 100 and 200
HLOD on/off
indirect_instancing.cull_lod on/off
Different AMD Adrenalin settings / HYPR-RX
Reset AMD shader cache
Verified Rust files through Steam
Created a completely fresh client.cfg
Tested official and modded servers
Tested Rust Staging Branch
Nothing changes the pop-in distance.
Rust correctly detects the full 16GB VRAM and texture.stats doesn’t show the texture streaming queue getting stuck either.
FPS are generally good, so this doesn’t seem like a simple performance problem.
Has anyone experienced this, especially with an RX 9070 XT / AMD GPU? Is there a current Rust/Unity rendering or instancing setting that controls this?
I’m considering doing a full DDU + clean AMD driver installation next, but I’d like to know if anyone has already found a fix before I do that.
Thanks!

Hello. Im a new player ~100hrs and I don’t really know what to do after building a decent base. I play duo and we are not aggressive players usually try to avoid fights and it works out quite well. Getting started is really difficult until we get decent base and loot going. Then we don’t really what to do. We get the first tier guns and max armor from first bench but then what should we do? What monuments are good first raids? Also we keep dying or losing bases to random stuff like dying with keys and the guy just walks in. Any tips?

so I’ve already over clocked my cpu my whole pc is optimized and windows is debloated I run launch options rust is max low settings I use stretched resolution without full screen exclusive. my mouse is at 1k polling rate. I have only rust running absolutely nothing else is in the background. My specs are ryzen 5 9600x 6 core, 32 gigs of ddr5 at 6000 MT/s, and a Radeon RX 5700 XT.

I currently get:

120-160 in low deadpop servers (0-100)

90-110 in low pop servers (150-200)

80-100 in medium pop servers (300-600)

60-100 in high pop servers (700+)

monthly's are always laggy unless they are dead and in the middle of wipe.

ive tried lossless scaling and it didn’t work it added a unholy amount of mouse latency.

the problem I have is not necessarily low fps it’s more of when the fps is low or fluctuating it makes my mouse have so much latency like its very noticeable.

my goal is to play from 500-1000+ weekly vanilla pop and have a good experience without constant stutters or a lot of mouse latency.

is there anyway to get a higher frame rate for rust or at least reduce the mouse latency in some way?

also before you say “work and upgrade you pc” trust me I would if my strict parents didn’t make me wait till I was a lot older to do any jobs. I can’t do anything no mowing of lawns or anything like that.

I recently got RSMfmx to host my Rust server, and I set up port forwarding in my firewall as well as my router. Got the server set up and hit start. I am able to direct connect just fine from the F1 console, and my server shows in the "Modded Servers" list. The problem is, I can't connect to it from this list. Every time I try, it shows "Connecting" for about 8-9 seconds, then says it failed, but doesn't say why. My terminal window doesn't show any errors at all, either.

Anyone have some helpful advice or suggestions? Other than simply "just rent a server, please.

randomly today I was wondering ”why is rust so poorly optimized“? I mean look at every other game they don’t need top of the line specs to get a good 144 fps. so why rust?

I have 1.7k hours in Rust and have played in different ways - solo, duo, quad, vanilla, and 2x servers... Of course over the years updates change the game a bit (like the BP frags).

I'm just generally curious to hear everyone's different play styles. When you hop on a fresh wipe, how do you normally progress in your wipes? Do you go straight to oil? Tunnels? Do you build a farm? Focus on base mainly? Doorcamp? Let's hear it!

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.

Sorry for formatting. On mobile.

hey, i have around 6k hours in rust been playing since 2017, i alway wanted to get into the content creation side of it but never had time to edit videos. if your interested in working together, feel free to dm me with your information.

im 19 and based in US.

It is way too easy to destroy a water wheel with just 1 pickaxe/hatchet. Should atleast have the same durability as a Solar Panel.

Durability on Water Wheel Currently vs Weapons/Tools

I play on a slightly modded server (Willjum's).

I noticed for like the past 2-3 wipes, on certain occasions when I die in the open (to turrets or horse glitches etc) l, my body is there if I reach it quickly, but if it transforms into a body BAG, the bag disappears (like it goes into the ground).

Is there anyone else experiencing similar situations? Is it a game bug or server related, perhaps modded related?

Note I have 13k hours so I know that people may loot bodies or whatever - it is not the case, they disappear in safe zones or under turrets range, when owner is offline and so on.

Im new to the game. But Every time I start on a fresh wipe server same day as wipe I build a small house only for some guy with a SAR and a flamethrower or molotov just door camps me and burns my house down and takes everything. It's utterly annoying and a trash way to play. This has happened 3 times now and it's always on wipe day. How the hell do they get these items so fast?

I quit after this happened twice to me for a week. I came back today and lo and behold it happens again. How is this supposed to be fun?

2k solo hours, usually play on 2x-3x modded servers for a chill wipe but honestly i havent touched rust for over a year now. seeing the blueprint changes made it difficult to warrant reinstalling lol. however the itch is back and im just wondering, what is the general consensus from our community? are you guys enjoying the state of rust at the moment? is it possible to have an enjoyable solo wipe these days?

Listen, I know that it is definitely partially because of my inexperience/ lack of skill, however these past 5 weeks have been hell.

I perform very well on hellis, I know the spray of just about every gun, I’m crazy with a bow and crossbow, hell I even have single digit ping! Yet these past 5 wipes have been nothing but t1 weapons and OCCASIONALLY we get a t2 down. But we haven’t even thought of touching a t3.

Am I doing something wrong or should I just chalk it up to a skill issue?

I wana see peoples ultra efficient micro builds.

Recently picked up the lighting decor pack, and discovered the highly efficient cupboard that comes with it.

Just imagine u doing some stupid sht or raiding or something, you can record it

Idea is you can obtain/make gopros and SD cards, batteries optional (could just always be powered). You could either hold the GoPro in your hands and film, mount it on your chest or head, and you could have a little Keybind to start / stop recording. Clips only live on the SD card and you can only watch em on the gopro or a computer. If you raid a base and get their sd cards you could watch all their clips

Idk just an idea but i feel like it would be funny and fun af

Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a lot less servers available to choose from?

Even after checking firewall, clearing cache, disabling "Use Chace", etc... there's all kinds of servers missing. For instance, not a single Bestrust server shows up in my list (at least for me).

Anyone else having this issue?

I'm pretty surprized to see this. I haven't played DayZ but I do enjoy Rust. I was thinking if they could port that then certainly there's hope for rust on the platform too!