Long story short - I played a lot of Legacy Rust with few boardsies. In 200h of playing Rust I experienced most of my Best gaming moments in 25 years of gaming experience.
I have walked away from Rust when they started doing new build as it was very basic. Could not play Legacy as I had much less time and no group to play with. People who played Rust will know how unforgiving it is to solo players.
Rust got very far now and after trying it out 2 days ago, I cant put it down. It all changed for the better.
Main point of this Post and maybe thread, to get people back to Rust or get people to try it out, who think its extremely hard to play solo. As I said a good few changes were made and I will try to give some basic info of survival. I wont go to most basic stuff of crafting and very few first steps as you better off checking it on youtube, there are hundreds of such videos!
*First things first, if you plan playing solo or with one or two friends then there is a very nice surprise. There are servers for Solo players or for 1-3 groups. As you can see, it makes Rust a lot more easier for new players and those who like to fly solo. No 10 poeple clans who wreck your stuff every night, just because they are bored and have stock piled explosives.
Find yourself a one of those servers with lowish population. Dont join solo server with 70++ people on server! you will die!
Another good thing to look for are servers that were wiped most recently!
*Assuming you know basics I will talk a bit of fresh spawn tactics.
When you spawn on server, I personally ignore all trees and rocks, unless those are small deposits that can be picked up without mining. I do try to get a bit wood, like 100-200. Your priority will be cloth. With new Rust you can pick cloth from Plants. They look like "weed" plants. Try to grab as much as possible.
So while you have this mind set, your priority is to get out from coast as far as possible. Pick direction and run. Check surroundings and find yourself a nice place. While you looking for it make yourself with cloth: Stash and sleeping bag. At this point when you feel you far enough in, you can place sleeping bag somewhere hidden in bush to mark your spot and spawn there. IT will help you to spawn from one spot and start maping surroundings in your head. Keep in mind that all maps are random generated. Use stash to hide your most valuable stuff if you find some: Animal fat, food, wood, stone. You don't need to build base asap. You better off having few stashes and hidden sleeping bag, until you got enough wood and stone to build your first home. If you die, don't worry, wake up in sleeping bag and start again. At that point your losses are very small. Keep in mind you can have more then one of such sleeping bag+ stash points.
*Where is good place to build? If you are solo player, its better to build away from others and a bit further away from monuments. One great place to build is in Snowy mountains somewhere surrounded by trees and bushes. It will give you natural camo, which trust me, helps a lot. One thing to note. Its good idea to make yourself cloths when going there. So use your little "stash+sleeping bag" checkpoints to help you out. In fairness full set of cloths is not hard to make.
*What should you build? Well, best tactic is to hide and build something small that looks like more hassle to break in and wont have much loot. I personally use this lovely design from wood and wooden doors with wooden locks. When I have enough stone I upgrade it to stone and then work on metal.
When things go later in and I feel confident and got extra stuff, I build second base like this:
Extra tips:
*You can remove locks and doors. So use wood doors and locks at start. Your priority after turning your house in to stone is to put Metal doors.
*If you lucky enough to find animals and get enough fat to make low grade fuel, then it wont be an issue. If you still without furnace ( happens to me a lot ), then go look for loot spawns and find a rad town with recycler. Its great addition to game. Metal sheets, propane tanks and blades can be recycled for metal. Very handy.
*Never recycle springs or gears. Those are very handy and you will need them a lot!
I hope this helps a bit and I might see a few more boardsies being chased by naked dude with crossbow for a pork chop.
