Rust: how our servers play

• A private welcome when you join, and chat commands whose answers only you see (below).
• Links your Steam account to our Discord with /link, and shows your own numbers with /stats.
• Counts your play time fairly: idle time does not count (below).
• A title in chat for what you do most (below).
• Feeds our Discord: the kill feed, the leaderboards, your medals.
• It changes nothing in how the game plays: no kits, no extra loot, no teleport. The servers stay in the game's Community list.

• Players can't hurt each other on Monthly: the game turns the damage back on the one who shot.
• Raiding is against the rules there: other players' doors, walls and boxes are off limits. The game does not stop every hit on a door or a box, so our add-on warns you and tells staff who damaged what.
• Traps and turrets are allowed. Scientists, animals, the patrol helicopter and Bradley are as dangerous as anywhere.
• Monthly's kills count for nothing: no kill feed, no PvP medals or titles come from it. Its own leaderboard counts time played, scientists, animals, helicopters, barrels and crates.
• The lifetime leaderboard and your /stats card: Kills, deaths and K/D: Weekly and Biweekly. Time played: all three servers.

• All three are Premium servers: to see and join them you need at least $15 US of Rust items in your Steam inventory. That is Facepunch's own rule for Premium servers, and it keeps throwaway accounts out.
• Without that, the game does not show our servers at all. Items from the game's store and tradable Rust items count; DLC packs do not.

• Wipes happen on Thursdays at Facepunch's forced-wipe hour: about noon Alberta Time (1 pm from late October to late March).
• Weekly: every Thursday. Biweekly: the first and third Thursday of the month. Monthly: the first Thursday.
• The first Thursday of the month is Facepunch's forced wipe: all three servers wipe as soon as the update is out and our add-on is ready for it.
• A new random map every wipe, size between 3500 and 4500. The Servers page shows each server's current size and seed.
• Blueprints are kept at normal wipes. Facepunch forces a blueprint wipe a few times a year.
• The wipe countdown in game shows each server's real next wipe.

• Idle time does not count. After 30 minutes without moving, your time stops counting toward hours and medals until you move again.
• Nobody is kicked for being idle unless the server is full: then players idle for 60 minutes or more may be kicked to make room.

• Type them in the game's chat. Nobody else sees the line, and the answer is only for you.
• /help the list, right in game.
• /stats your hours, sessions, kills, deaths, K/D, headshots, longest kill, best kill streak and wipes on that server.
• /discord our Discord invite. /link gives you a code to link your Steam account on our Discord; /link CODE takes a code you got on Discord. The Link Steam page has the easy way.
• /mute day, week, month or year: no medal reminders for that long (/mute alone: a week). /unmute turns them back on.
• A private welcome when you join.

• Your name in global chat carries a title for what you did most recently: Killer, Sharpshooter, Raider, Builder, Crafter, Gatherer, Scavenger or Hunter. Until you earn one it reads Survivor.
• It is looked at when you join and every so often. A wipe clears it.

• Player kills on Weekly and Biweekly are posted on our Discord 10 minutes later, with the weapon, the distance and whether it was a headshot, never a position. Monthly is PVE: nothing from it.
• Leaderboards on our Discord: this wipe on each server, and lifetime. Kills, K/D, longest kill, headshot kills, best kill streak and time played; Monthly's board is a PVE board (time played, scientists, animals, helicopters, barrels, crates). In the lifetime board: Kills, deaths and K/D: Weekly and Biweekly. Time played: all three servers.
• Medals and a stats card for what you do on our servers: /medals and /stats on our Discord, once your Steam account is linked.

• Report a player with F7 in game, or open a ticket on our Discord. Please don't call out cheaters in chat: admins check the logs.

The rules are on the Rules page. One ban covers every one of our servers.