40 Fun Facts About Rust (Video Game)

Which feature did Rust's developers find made players less likely to kill each other on sight?

Voice chat changed behaviour more than any rule could, because strangers who were able to talk often stopped shooting first out of fear. The team had rejected marking killers with special clothing.

Which enemies did Facepunch remove from Rust in early 2014 in favour of mutant bears and wolves?

Zombies were only ever a temporary threat, and the studio's founder said the team was sick of fighting them. Wildlife took over, though other players remain the real danger.

Every newly spawned Rust player starts with a torch and which other item for gathering and fighting?

A rock is all a fresh spawn gets besides the torch, and it has to gather materials and fend off attackers alike. Dying sends a player straight back to that same starting kit.

Rust began life as a clone of which hugely popular survival mod for the PC game ARMA 2?

DayZ inspired the first version, but the team soon decided it could not compete with the towns and landmarks of ARMA's island. Instead it gave players the means to build the world themselves.

Which trait of a Rust character is fixed by the player's Steam ID and can never be changed?

Skin colour was tied to each account in early 2015 so that players would stay recognisable over time. A character's sex was later assigned in the same permanent way.

Which resource is Rust's main currency, spent at vending machines and on unlocking blueprints?

Scrap also unlocks new items at a workbench, so it works as both money and progress.

Rust topped which streaming platform in January 2021, peaking at over a million concurrent viewers?

Twitch audiences flocked to the game after a group of big streamers took it up, and Rust more than doubled its own record for players online at once.

Which ore do Rust raiders smelt in furnaces for the key ingredient of gunpowder?

Sulfur gets a tongue-in-cheek item description in the game, which lists its real-world uses in medicine, matches and pesticide for organic farms.

Rust was rebuilt during 2014 on the then-unreleased fifth version of which widely used game engine?

Unity 5 brought sharper graphics and allowed larger procedurally generated worlds. The rebuilt game began as an experimental mode and became the default launch option that October.

Facepunch Studios made its name with which sandbox game before releasing the survival hit Rust?

Garry's Mod began as a Half-Life 2 modification and has sold over 20 million copies. Rust later overtook it in total revenue.

Which deployable stops a Rust base from decaying and blocks strangers from building next to it?

The Tool Cupboard has to be stocked with a fraction of the materials a base cost to build, a running bill known as upkeep. Raiders go looking for it, so wise builders lock it away.

Rust's Timed Explosive Charge, used for blasting into bases, is better known as which real explosive?

C4 is what the game's own item description calls the charge, and crafting one takes explosives, cloth and tech trash.

Which cheap item, crafted from cloth alone, gives a Rust player a chosen place to respawn?

A Sleeping Bag can even be assigned to another player, handing a teammate a spawn point of their own. Each use is followed by a long cooldown.

Facepunch forces every Rust server to wipe for the monthly update on which day of each month?

First Thursday is force wipe day, when every server's map is cleared for the monthly update and all bases go with it. Many servers also wipe weekly or fortnightly in between.

At which swamp-dwelling Rust safe zone can players gamble their loot on a spinning Big Wheel?

Bandit Camp, first introduced as Bandit Town, hides its casino inside a dredge sitting in the fog. Merchants sell their wares from the wooden huts around it.

What kind of vessel is Rust's CCSC Lazarus, which circles the island with armed guards aboard?

Cargo ship raiders must climb its ladders from a boat and then hold out while they hack the crates, with every player on the server able to see the vessel on the map.

Which armoured vehicle did Facepunch add to patrol Rust's Launch Site and guard its loot?

The Bradley APC was built because the loot at the Launch Site was, in the developers' own words, a little too good to leave unguarded.

Which aircraft in Rust carries a pilot who cannot shoot and a single passenger who can?

The Minicopter arrived with the Air Power Update of 2019, first appearing on runways and roads for anyone to claim. Its pilot cannot even look around, let alone use weapons.

Which military helicopter in Rust flies to a monument and drops a locked crate that players fight over?

The Chinook shoots at anyone behind it as it crosses the map. Its crate opens only after a delay, which gives rival players time to arrive.

Which Rust aircraft burns Low Grade Fuel and can be patched up with cloth when it is damaged?

The hot air balloon is steered by climbing or sinking into a pocket of air moving the right way, with a windsock and flags on board to show the wind.

Which studio partnered with Facepunch to bring Rust to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2021?

Double Eleven revealed the console edition in 2019 and blamed the pandemic for a year's delay. It runs as a separate game with its own roadmap rather than a copy of the PC version.

Which third-party anti-cheat system took over from Facepunch's home-made CheatPunch to police Rust's servers?

EasyAntiCheat took over at the end of 2014 from a system that had banned thousands of players within days. Facepunch had called CheatPunch a stop-gap from the day it launched.

Which group of streamers was chiefly responsible for Rust's huge surge in live viewers in January 2021?

OfflineTV drew such crowds that Rust took in $1 million in sales over just two days. Facepunch answered the influx of newcomers with a gentler game mode a month later.

What name did Facepunch give the gentler Rust mode that lets players keep half their inventory on death?

Softcore servers also cap teams at four players and let the dead respawn at safe zones. The mode launched in February 2021 for those who wanted a less brutal game.

Rust's Instruments Pack lets players perform on real digital pianos through which music standard?

MIDI devices can be plugged in to play the instruments in real time, and the game can also play back stored .mid files. The pack was Rust's first paid DLC.

Which Facepunch bullet-hell shooter became playable inside Rust on an arcade machine of its own?

Chippy had launched on Steam a week earlier, and Facepunch marked the occasion by giving its players an exclusive arcade cabinet to place in their Rust bases.

Facepunch dropped Rust for which operating system in 2019, offering refunds to players who had used it?

Linux was a version the studio admitted none of its staff used properly or tested routinely. It had already stopped selling that edition about a year earlier.

Which vehicle arrived alongside polar bears and a frozen new monument in Rust's Arctic Update?

Snowmobiles were at first available only by solving a puzzle at the update's new polar base, where explorers can also stop to warm up beside a heater.

Which biome, added in 2025, was the first new one in Rust since procedural maps arrived?

The Jungle update brought climbable trees, vine swinging, tigers and crocodiles, along with two unusual weapons, the boomerang and the blowpipe.

Which Rust bench teaches a player to permanently craft an item they have found in the world?

The Research Table charges a fee for every item it studies, and one stands ready for public use among the stations at the Outpost safe zone.

Rust players craft Low Grade Fuel by combining cloth with which product harvested from wildlife?

Animal fat is combined with cloth at a ratio of three to one, and the fuel that results keeps the game's lanterns and other lights burning.

Which wild plant do new Rust players gather for the cloth needed to craft a first hunting bow?

Hemp bushes yield cloth when picked, and the animals a player kills give it too. A hunting bow takes 50 pieces of it along with 200 wood.

Which is the weakest of Rust's five building tiers, decaying within an hour once upkeep runs out?

Twig is followed by wood, stone, metal and armoured construction, the toughest of which survives twelve hours of neglect before it is destroyed.

Which colour of Rust keycard carries advanced clearance and grants access to top-level areas?

Red keycards rank above the blue card with its medium clearance and the green card, which opens only basic areas.

What name does Rust give the armed human NPCs who guard the Oil Rig and other loot-rich monuments?

Scientists had their AI rewritten from scratch for the Oil Rig, after a developer tired of videos showing them walking backwards. Opening the locked crate at the top of the rig sets off a fight with a heavy variety.

Which boat in Rust can be fitted with spawn points and storage, turning it into a mobile base?

The Tugboat appears at harbor monuments, and one that is destroyed sinks to the seabed along with everything on board, leaving the wreck open to salvage.

Which system did Rust add for its fifth anniversary, enabling elaborate automated base defences?

Electricity let players build defensive contraptions of their own design, and two months later it went wireless with radio broadcasters and receivers.

Before its Steam debut in December 2013, Rust was first released for testing in what form?

A browser game was how the first testers met Rust in 2013, a few months before it reached Steam and began more than four years in Early Access.

Which progression system briefly replaced blueprints in Rust in 2016 before being dropped within months?

XP levels rewarded chores such as gathering wood, an idea that was praised before release and heavily criticised once players had it. Blueprints eventually came back.

Facepunch Studios, the British developer behind Rust, has its headquarters in which English city?

Birmingham houses a studio whose name began as a rejected title for Facewound, the game it was founded to release, and was kept because it sounded too funny to let die.