Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player, there are tips you should know in Rust if you want to survive longer and not get stuck primlocked during the wipes. Facepunch adds new content and new features to Rust every month. These are usually not small updates, but big ones that change the way you play. So if you stop playing Rust for a couple of months, there certainly will be new things you should be aware of when you get back. In this guide, we will discuss the 10 best Rust tips and tricks that both beginners and experienced players might not know, and we will also share some very useful Rust console commands.
10 Best Tips You Might Not Know in Rust
Tip #1: Cancel The Night Vision Buzzing Sound in Rust
Night Vision item in Rust has an annoying buzzing sound that makes you don’t hear anything besides that. You can easily eliminate this buzzing sound and hear your surroundings much easier at night. All you have to do to use this trick is hold your emote button and clap. You should do this while your Night Vision is active, and you will notice the buzzing sound will completely shut down after your clap.
Tip #2: Find Tool Cupboards in Bases
Are you struggling to find where 2×1 and 2×2 bases hide their Tool Cupboards? Fear no more, we got you covered. The easiest way to find Tool Cupboards is by using the Building Plan. To find the Tool Cupboards room, grab a Building Plan and select the Triangle Floor.
Then try to connect this Triangle Floor with the other floors inside the base from the outside. If the Triangle Floor doesn’t line straight, but rather half-assed like in the image, you have found the Tool Cupboard room. Light it up with explosives.
Tip #3: Don’t Lose Your Small Stashes Again in Rust
You will need an RF Pager and RF Transmitter for this to work. If you have these two, you can hide your stashes in the middle of an open field, and it doesn’t matter; you can find them pretty easily. Set the RF Pager and RF Transmitter’s frequency to the same and put RF Pager inside one of the stashes you hide. Later you want the have them back bring out your RF Transmitter and click on the left mouse click. Its beeping will become more frequent and louder as you approach your stashes.
Another useful way to find your stashes doesn’t require any additional Blueprints or items. You will only need to farm Wood a little bit and craft a Building Plan. Go to the place where you lost your stashes and start placing Twig Foundations where you suspect. If you put Twig Foundations near your stashes, they can be seen. With these stash tricks, you can safely store your Gun Powder and Sulfur.
Tip #4: Safely Eliminate The Door Campers in Rust
We can safely assure you that many players don’t know of this tip in Rust. If you are door camped or you have some guy on your airlock you can get rid of him pretty safely without risking anything. You will only need an explosive and any kind of door.
Beancan Grenade and F1 Grenade are the perfect fit for this situation. To do this, you should have a door that opens toward where the enemy is camping or you should try to place one like this. You don’t have to place locks, however, we recommend placing one. Because if your enemy has good reflexes, they can use the reverse card on you.
After your door is perfectly set, take a Beancan Grenade or F1 Grenade to your hand and stick it to the door by using the Right-Click then open the door toward the enemy. The bomb stuck to the door will enter the enemy’s compartment and explode there, killing him.
Tip #5: Use Rust Console Commands to Instantly Upgrade Your Walls During Raid
If you are getting online raided from your wall, you can place a new one after it is destroyed if you are fast enough. Or you can use the Rust console commands we provide that instantly places a Twig and upgrade it. Don’t worry, using console commands in Rust is perfectly legit and not bannable.
| bind x slot6;+attack2;+attack;+slot6 |
Place this command in your console after you open it by pressing the F1 key in Rust. You can assign any key you want instead of the “X”. Put your Hammer on the sixth slot, place your Twig manually, and press the “X” button. It will upgrade automatically after you press the button you assigned.
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Tip #6: Use Crafting Bandages with Console Commands in Rust
There are sometimes in the Rust when you can’t open your crafting menu because you are trying to dodge bullets or arrows. For times like these, these Rust console commands will come in handy.
| bind x craft.add -2072273936;craft.add |
With the help of this Rust console command, you can craft anytime anywhere as long as you have cloth in your inventory without opening a crafting menu. You can do this for any items you want you just need to go to Rustlab and copy the item’s identifier code. Then change the “-2072273936” part according to the item you want to craft.
Tip #7: Shoot Faster with Semi-Automatic Weapons in Rust
Have you ever encountered a Semi-Automatic Rifle guy that kills you so fast that you think he is using SMG or Assault Rifle? This is how you be that guy in a lazy way.
| bind mousewheeldown +attack bind mousewheelup +attack |
In this way, you can shoot Semi-Automatic weapons by simply scrolling down and up quickly.
Tip #8: Make Your Compound Grub Proof in Rust
Many players don’t know these tricks, but they are among the best 10 tips in Rust. Grubs love jumping inside your compound and stealing your loot. The most common way of doing this is utilizing the Twig floors. You can put small electrical devices where you don’t want players to place Twigs, like Electrical Branch.
If you place these Electrical Branches on the floor of your gatehouse, no Twig can be placed. Players who want to jump inside can only use the Ladder and if you have placed the Metal Barricades and High External Walls properly, it will be extremely difficult for them to enter.
Tip #9: Increase the Right Click Zoom in Rust by Using Rust Console Commands
Sometimes shooting an enemy that far away might be hard, and you can make it easier with this Rust console command. This console command will allow you to automatically change your FOV when you aim and this will result in you seeing the enemy much easier.
| bind mouse1 “+fov 90;+attack2;fov 70” |
Tip #10: Transfer The Loot Where You Stuck in Rust
You need to have Sleeping Bag near or you need to have a friend with you to use this tip among the best 10 tips in Rust you don’t know before. If you are stuck on the enemy’s airlock with items you can actually transfer the loot outside even if the doors are closed.
This is fairly easy to do, but you have to do it in a way that is not obvious to the enemy whose base you are trapped in. Otherwise, they can get the loot before you. Simply put, you will kill your character and make your body lootable from the outside. Bring your body close to the door you are going to loot and after looking up, open the console and type “kill”. In this way, you can loot your body from the outside.
Rust is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
