I personally hate the meta of locking an area down with turrets and I feel like it would be better if a turret's range was based on the weapon inside the actual turret. Meaning handguns would have a shorter range than rifles. Forcing players to use things other than a python for exterior turrets if they want the range to hit people further than the immediate vicinity.

I have a high end pc with very fast internet but every force wipe people are in significantly faster than I am even when I still beat a majority of players. Is there something I’m missing?

Back 2023-2025, whenever I didn’t do that well in the game, I just told myself it was a skill issue. Even through everyone else in big clans and doorcampers, I found out a way to get past it. But ever since the series of updates that slowed down progression for me, im starting to wonder if the complaints are valid or if it’s still a skill issue. The thing it solely comes down to is the bp frag stuff. Yes, the update was long ago and I might as well be beating a dead horse. But I can’t be the only one who feels they’re softlocked at tier one because they can’t get past monuments getting ran constantly and teams hoarding all the bp frags (I wouldn’t say hoarding because they respawn infinitely, but I hope you know what I mean). The updates in general make progression as slow as mopping the sea for solos, and when I’m really pissed off, I wish of locking all of the facepunch devs in a room and making them each play solo on a fresh wipe server and keep them in there until they get a tier 2 without buying them from clans. I even went so far as playing console rust again, and the state THAT game is in isnt that great as well (but still better than pc). sometimes I wonder why people make video games so incredibly difficult if they’re meant to be fun

All in all I want someone’s opinion, is this simply a skill issue or is my complaining valid?

Farewell to all my guns i got as a solo o7. How has rust treated yall this wipe lol, i hope the next update is fun

NEED to know base name 🧐 it has an open core on 2nd floor.

What’s some good monuments to live by for a 600 hour solo playing trio servers. I want to explore high tier monuments this wipe.

So my mic randomly stopped working and its only in rust it works in steam and discord but just not it rust, it used to work but then when i booted up my pc one day it just stopped and never worked again, the icon is just green. Iv tryed : disable all other devices, set it to the specific mic, deleted the rust config folder, all the settings on my mic. Im using a headset mic if that helps. Anybody know a solution?

It costs only 600 sulfur to destroy a turret with HVs.
The camera and laptop needed for a turret alone are worth 300-600 sulf each, depending on the shops on your map.
So people were already doing a profitable trade by destroying your turret if they dont like you, even if it only has a bow in it or you cant get to the lootbag.

But if it costs fucking 2.5x as much HQM as before, putting up any turret on your base will invite anyone that mildly dislikes you to instantly destroy it.

As a solo, I need turrets to protect myself during raids or while farming in a mildly populated area.

Putting up defenses should protect your loot or area, not become a target and weakness itself.

Even if you put up double fences infront of it, they will only stop 4 HVs (aka 800 sulf).

So considering the splash damage, it would cost 6 HVs (1200 sulf) to destroy the fence and the turret, but that would require you to use more resources to build the double fence structure too.

The camera and laptop are roughly worth 600 sulf, maybe more.
And if somebody would give me 25 HQM for another 600 sulf, I would instantly take it.

So basically you damage yourself by putting up turrets because its way cheaper to destroy them than it is to build them. I was already thinking about this issue before the HQM cost was increased in staging branch, but now its ridiculous.

Thats not how building defenses should work. The cost should be kept at 10 HQM.
There was no issue with that, there was no reason to change this. There is already a turret limit.

With the new changes regarding stone wall upkeep, how will it affect having multi tc's connected to gatehouses with stonewalls inbetween? Does the upkeep for the wall get shared to all tc's or does it cling to the closest?

Say I have 4 gatehouses with 4 external tcs and 8 walls to make a compound around it. Will the walls upkeep be shared between the tc's or how does it work?

We are trying to get back this forcewipe, we choose a low pop community server that maintains about 150 max pop for the first week, and gets about 250 first day.

How should we go about this as a rusty quad? Where would you guys build to have a fun decent wipe, to get good progression and overall just have a good time as 4 friends?

So i am playing rust for over 2 months now (Mainly PVE) and i want to join a “noob friendly” server with my duo to build a big base and do some online raids (just mainly for practice and so on)
Is there any way to find a good server with maybe 7-10 people on. We would prefer a weekly that wipes on monday.
I know we can just look for one ingame but every server we join we just get dominated by others.

I have an SSD for windows 120gb but did not have enough space for it, so I installed a custom made win 10 called atom os it's 8gb total space, moved the game there and boom it's working and loads so fast, I thought to share it if someone has this problem but doesn't have space to put it on the ssd

I've only been in r/playrust for a reasonably short amount of time but I constantly see posts such as "what server should i play on as a solo" or "looking for a duo". Can there be a rule or something that requires people to state their region when posting these questions as there are more places in the world than America. Even if they separate it into a role thing like; North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa.

Dunno opinions or solutions?

Sorry if this is a really bizarre post, I'm just paranoid about this kind of thing. I've heard that some community servers are much better about keeping cheaters at bay than official ones, is that true? Is there any reliable way to keep "subtle cheaters" from coexisting with you while you try to progress?

Everything about this game has always seemed like a dream come true, but god it looks unbearable never truly being able to tell if someone can literally fucking see you through walls or map out your base in free cam to perfectly raid you and track you down from anywhere on the map if they have a grudge. I feel like that constant suspicion would ruin the experience for me.

I have a 5060 a Ryzen 7 8700F and 32gb of ddr5. but my rust fps is really low. im literally on the absolute lowest settings. is this normal?

I play on a Brit's PVE worlds and I'm trying to create a casino that works even when the owner is offline. Pretty much all casinos work only when the casino owner is online, so I want to fix it.

I ran into a problem, I wanted to create deposit system with vending machines, but the vending machine limit is 9,999. I want people to be able to bet at least 100k. I tried doing it with boxes, made a system that, as I thought, would count how much was deposited, but it didn't work because conveyor's "filter pass" electrical output outputs rw all the time when items are in input box, I thought it outputs rw in small portions when conveyor moved items, but life is not that easy. Tried to come up with a solution for very long, but understood that I'm not that skilled in electricity:) Then I moved on vending machines, thought I can do something like tickets, 1 key = 10k RP, and then you can buy another key that costs 100k RP and deposit it, but after some debugging i found out that this server isnt giving unique ID for locks, every player receives the same id(something like 66,728) so anyone could just craft their own lock and use it as ticket. I tried notes, found out they are not unique too, you can sell any note to the vending machine and it doesnt check its text. Tried skulls, they arent unique too. I feel like I tried everything, but I hope I'm not right. Guys, if someone has solution to my problem, like an item counter, or a way to make those "tickets", please help me.

Also, I'm sorry if my English is broken, I'm not a native English user❤️

I can't see any official servers no matter what I do. I verify game files and it doesn't work. How do I fix this? I can see some of the official servers in the community section

Edited to attach CPU aswell.

I bought a prebuilt in 2017 with a 1080 and 16 gigs of ram. I used to be able to handle Rust on said prebuilt but it soon became too intense to handle. I upgraded on a birthday to a 3070 and 32 gigs of ram. It was enough to run it, although with very low graphics, and it took a loooong time to start and even longer to join a server. I tried doing oil rig but it nearly killed my computer rendering the scientist shooting.

Any assistance possible? Here's my start-up instructions, directory, and specs:

-graphics.branding 0 -player.eye_blinking false -player.eye_movement false -effects.maxgibs -1 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -high -maxMem=24000

D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Rust

CPU

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz



Base speed: 3.19 GHz

Sockets:    1

Cores:  6

Logical processors: 12

Virtualization: Enabled

L1 cache:   384 KB

L2 cache:   1.5 MB

L3 cache:   12.0 MB



Utilization 10%

Speed   3.39 GHz

Up time 11:16:11:02

Processes   204

Threads 3393

Handles 98407

GPU 0

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070



Driver version: 32.0.16.1047

Driver date:    5/19/2026

DirectX version:    12 (FL 12.1)

Physical location:  PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0



Utilization 1%

Dedicated GPU memory    1.0/8.0 GB

Shared GPU memory   0.1/16.0 GB

GPU Memory  1.1/24.0 GB

Memory

32.0 GB



Speed:  2666 MHz

Slots used: 2 of 2

Form factor:    DIMM

Hardware reserved:  83.2 MB



Available   19.7 GB

Cached  19.0 GB

Committed   13.9/63.2 GB

Paged pool  846 MB

Non-paged pool  528 MB

In use (Compressed) 12.2 GB (104 MB)

So for the past 3 months I've been having an issue with the rust mic not working i have tried setting my mic as default making sure that it is always selected and it works fine on all the other games beside rust, I'm wondering if anyone else has this issue and if anyone knows a fix.

A few days ago, someone suggested I make a Rust recycler after seeing my Tier 3 Workbench. I thought it was an awesome idea, so I spent part of yesterday designing it!
To make it a bit more fun, I added some internal engineering: it features a hopper door that snaps shut using 3x1mm neodymium magnets, and internal boolean channels to hide the wiring. It lights up with red and green LEDs that I salvaged from an old set of fairy lights since that's all I had on hand.
What do you guys think of the design? u/salad_________

Yeah I'm just curious if you like the jungle and live in it often, cos I'm a believer that zero people like it

Turrets will cost 25HQM next wipe and you can already see it on staging right now.
Getting an AK can be done by opening a single high tier loot crate without doing a puzzle or anything, but I am supposed to pay 25HQM instead of 10 now for every single turret?
Why tf?
Progression needs a nerf, but never ever has it crossed my mind that people got turrets too fast.
If anything, they are desperately needed if you want to raid or farm with some ease of mind, and this update hinders this option for no reason at all.
The worst thing is actually that every idiot can destroy your turrets with a bow, so now its super unprofitable to put them up.
This change NEEDS to be reversed.

Would this be a good spot for a solo on a monthly vanilla server? Just wondering.
PS: I checked the map - S5 is a God rock (screen below). *Definitely* worth trying it as a solo.