RAST

Bears and Wolves: Dangerous predators. They attack silently. At the start of a wipe, an encounter with a bear is almost guaranteed death.
• Boars, Deer, Horses and Chickens: Peaceful fauna. Source of fabric, leather, fat (for crafting TNK fuel) and meat.

• Bradley Tank (Bradley APC): A tracked armored personnel carrier that circles around the main building in the Cosmodrome. It shoots players with a machine gun and a cannon. It can only be killed by explosives (C4, rockets, or F1 grenades). Experienced players "farm" it for top-tier military loot.
Patrol Helicopter: Flies across the map every few hours. Attacks any player with a firearm in their quickslots or wearing more than two pieces of clothing. Taking one down is a source of pride for any clan.

• Merchants in Outpost and Bandit Camp: They sell weapons, blueprints, resources, and vehicles. You can interact with them regularly to exchange stone for wood or buy a minicopter.
• Scientist Guards: Stationed at the Outpost's towers and gates, they are armed with laser rifles and will instantly kill any player who receives Hostile status for being aggressive nearby.
• Dwellers: Mutants or feral humans who guard the subway entrances and underground tunnels. Armed with shotguns and pistols, they are very aggressive but have low health.

Scientists are the main enemy faction in the game. They wear blue or green hazmat suits and carry firearms.
• Road Scientists: Patrol the main roads. Armed with pistols. Fairly weak, but can catch a new player off guard while farming barrels.
Monument Scientists: They guard the Water Treatment Plant, Military Tunnels, and Oil Rigs. Scientists in the Military Tunnels are the smartest and most dangerous; they use cover, throw grenades, and heal with syringes. They drop excellent loot (medicine, ammo, components).
Heavy Scientists: They appear at Oil Rigs when players initiate a lockbox hack. They arrive in a Chinook helicopter, wear heavy armor, have a huge amount of health, and are armed with SPAS-12 shotguns or M249 machine guns. Players know to engage them carefully and from a distance.

Green Tier (Initial RT, no or minimal radiation):
Spheres (Dome): A huge rusty ball. To loot the top crates at the top, you need to parkour along the pipes. Falling from there is a classic death sentence.
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• Oxum's Gas Station / Mining Outpost: Small roadside locations. Popular spots for quick PVP skirmishes on the first day of a wipe. There are Recyclers there for breaking down junk for scrap.
Blue Tier (Medium RT, requires basic gear or hazmat):
Airfield and Water Treatment Plant: Large open spaces. To open the main loot rooms, you'll need to find Fuses and green/blue Keycards.
Military Tunnels: A very dangerous area on the surface, filled with armed NPC scientists. Groups come here to collect elite crates.
Red Shooting Range (Top locations, high radiation levels):
Launch Site: The largest land-based monument. The main building is terribly radioactive (even hazmat equipment won't save you; you need to drink plenty of water and run fast). A Bradley tank (APC) patrols the area, shooting at anything living.
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• Oil Rigs (Large and Small): Located in the ocean, these can be accessed by boat or drone. Players clear out the scientists and initiate a hack on a locked crate, which calls in a Chinook CH47 helicopter for backup.
🏪 Safe Zones
• Outpost: The main hub. It houses community workbenches, recyclers, repair stations, and shops where you can buy resources, blueprints, or vehicles for scrap.
Bandit Camp: A swampy location. Famous for its Casino (Wheel of Fortune), where gamblers can lose all their scraps or win big in a matter of seconds. Minicopters are also sold here.
In safe zones, people cannot get their hands on weapons or shoot at them from a distance; the entire area is fenced off, often more than 6-7 meters (Six Seven)

• Ring Road: A paved ring that encircles the entire map. Power lines line it. This is the main source of components for newbies and solo players. While the character knows that Road Barrels and Crates can be farmed here, it's a very dangerous area, with frequent traffic and drones.
• Dirt Roads: Branches off the main road to the monuments. They have less loot, but are easier to move along stealthily.
• Railroad: Ring roads running along the surface, and Subway/Tunnels. Underground, there's a network of tunnels with trains guarded by aggressive Dweller NPCs. This is a great place to quickly farm scrap if you have a good weapon and light.

1. Homemade guns and tier-1 (Primitive weapons):
   • Bows and Crossbows (Hunting Bow / Crossbow): The weapon of the first hours of a wipe. They shoot wooden or bone arrows. Pros use a combo: a crossbow shot + a quick switch to a bow.
   • Waterpipe Shotgun: A single-shot, homemade shotgun. A favorite weapon of the "caps" in the bushes. Can kill even a full-sized MBC player at point-blank range with one shot.
   • Revolver: The first firearm available. 8 rounds in the cylinder.
   Ammunition: Wooden Arrows, HV Arrows and 12 Gauge shotgun pellets (buckshot or slugs).
2. Tier-2 (Mid-level automatic):
   • Thompson and Custom SMG: Submachine guns. Excellent rate of fire at close to medium range. Easy to control recoil.
   • Berdanka (SAR / Semi-Automatic Rifle): Semi-automatic rifle. Accurate, powerful, ideal for medium to long range if you click your finger very quickly.
   • Pump Shotgun: Pump-action shotgun. The king of tight base corridors.
   • Ammo: Pistol Bullet 9mm - regular, hollow point (more damage at close range) or armor-piercing (AP). 5.56mm Rifle Ammo for SAR.
3. Tier-3 (Military and top-end weapons):
   Kalashnikov (AK-47 / Assault Rifle): The icon of Rust. The most coveted assault rifle. It deals massive damage, but has a complex recoil that players practice for hundreds of hours on dedicated aim training servers.
   Bolt (Bolt Action Rifle) and L96: Powerful sniper rifles with scopes (4x or 8x). They deliver headshot kills with one or two shots at extreme range.
   M249 (Machine Gun): Can't be crafted, only dropped from Overwatch helicopters (Bradley or Chinook). 100-round magazine, devastates everything in its path.
   • Ammunition: 5.56mm rifle cartridge (regular, high-velocity HV for sniper rifles, incendiary Incendiary for arson).

Initial stage (Start / Homeless shooting range):
Clothing: Wetsuit or Burlap—fabric pants and shirt. Provides minimal protection from the cold.
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• Armor: Wood Armor and Wolf Headdress. Protect against arrows and melee attacks, but are nearly useless against firearms.

Middle Stage (Mid-game / Roadshine-shooting):
Roadsign Armor: A jacket and skirt crafted from road signs and leather. Paired with the Coffee Can Helmet, this is a basic gunfight set. Protects against most pistols and submachine guns.
Hazmat Suit: The legendary yellow (or scientist) suit. Occupies all clothing slots. Provides 30% bullet protection and 100% radiation protection at most RTs. The most popular casual wear among players.
Final stage (Top / MVK-tier):
Metal Armor: A heavy metal chestplate and metal facemask. Requires a lot of MBC and leather. Provides maximum bullet protection (up to 50-70% to the head and chest), reducing damage from sniper rifles and assault rifles.
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• Heavy Plate: Makes the player a walking tank, but horribly slows down their movement and completely obscures their vision. Used only for defense inside the base during a raid.

Minicopter: A two-seater helicopter. The fastest and most maneuverable mode of transportation, a favorite among experienced players.
Scrap Heli: A massive "cow" that can carry a whole bunch of players and a ton of loot.
Attack Helicopter: Equipped with turrets and missiles for attacking bases from the air.
Modular Vehicles: Players can assemble vehicles using lifts from various blocks—including an armored cabin, an engine, a tank, or even a living module with a sleeping area (a mobile respawn point).
Bicycles and Motorcycles: The most accessible form of transportation. Bicycles are unique in that they don't require fuel—they run on endurance.
Horses: Live transport that needs to be fed to run faster.
Trains and minecarts: Travel along railway tracks throughout the map.
Motorboats and boats (RHIB): For quick trips to the oil rigs.
Tugboat: A true floating base. You can place beds, chests, and doors on it as you navigate the ocean.

You can't build a tower until you reach space. The higher a block is from the foundation and the farther it is from the supporting walls, the lower its stability. At 0% stability, the block instantly breaks.
It is forbidden to build close to roads, monuments, RT and other people's bases.
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• Anti-abuse systems: The game does not allow you to place foundations too close to others or to intersect certain geometric joints (for example, joining a triangular and square foundation at the wrong angle) in order to avoid “double wall” bugs.

Twig: Fragile (10 HP), breakable with sticks. Serves only as a frame when building a base.
Wood: Weak defense (250 HP), easily burned by flamethrower.
Stone: The standard starting item (500 HP). Protects against fire, but requires a couple of C4 charges.
Sheet Metal: A solid base (1000 HP), requires 4 C4 to penetrate one wall.
Armored: Max level (2000 HP), requires a ton of expensive MVK (high quality metal) to craft and maintain.

Trust: He trusts absolutely no one. Any "cap" (naked player) is a potential suicide bomber with a homemade gun under his arm for him. He collaborates only for profit.
• Comeback: If the character is killed, he does not surrender. He instantly respawns on a nearby sleeping bag, takes a spare weapon, and runs for revenge.

• Paranoia: Constantly listens for footsteps, explosions, or rustling sounds near the base walls. Never leaves the computer (AFK) outside the safe zone.
• Fear of Missing Out (FOMO): If explosions are heard on the server, the character drops everything and runs to watch the raid (in “recon”), hoping to pick up someone else’s loot.
• Sleep: The character doesn't sleep for days if it's "wipe night" or if the base is being raided. While sleeping in the game (when the character is offline), he is terrified of waking up naked on the beach.
Attitude toward loot: Considers virtual loot (sulfur, gunpowder, AK-47) the most valuable thing in life. Ready to fall into deep depression or rage over the loss of a single backpack full of items.
Tool Cupboard (TC): The heart of the base. If you don't deposit resources into it for maintenance ("tax"), the base will gradually decay (decay). Creates a no-build zone for outsiders within a 16-meter radius.

"Naked": A naked, newly respawned player on the beach, holding only a rock and a torch. Often aggressive despite lacking a weapon.
RT (Rad Zones / Monuments): Abandoned objects on the map (Cosmodrome, Sphere, Oil Rig), where you can find the best loot and components, but there is high radiation.
Farm: Resource gathering. Continuously mine wood, stone, metal, and sulfur ore using pickaxes and axes.

Wipe: A complete server reset (map and blueprints), which usually occurs on the first Thursday of every month. This is when everyone starts from scratch.
PvP and Raids: The core of the game. Hacking and destroying enemy bases with bean grenades, C4, or rockets for loot.