Depends what you have. The despawn timer for the backpack varies according to the highest tier of item contained.

When you die your corpse will remain for 5 minutes and then switch to a camouflaged backpack. If your best item is a torch, the backpack will despawn in 10 minutes after player death (5 min corpse + 5 min backpack). If you died with an M249 in your inventory, the backpack will despawn in 65 minutes (5 min corpse + 60 min backpack).

Be sure to thoroughly search the area where you died! The camouflaged backpack can be difficult to locate in some terrains, your corpse can be moved by jungle animals and by water (Check up and down rivers, check surrounds out in the ocean.

In the event you died with or near fire it may have been damaged enough that it no longer exists (if you died and had no revive option it is unlikely you have a backpack or corpse.)

If you die and have respawn as the only option your corpse couldn't be resolved and was removed by the server, you will not have a backpack to collect. 

Detailed backpack despawn info can be found  here.

Sleepers are automatically killed after 20 minutes inside a safe zone (Bandit Camp, Barn, Fishing Village, and Outpost). This is an intended part of the game itself -- not a server modification. If you log out in a safe zone, you have to reconnect within that timeframe to move out of there. If you log out in a loot room, you are automatically killed when the loot respawns. The only safe place to log out is inside your own secured base!

To clear the map cache in Rust on PC:
Close the game completely.
Press Windows + R

Type: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rust\maps"

Could be C:\ or D:\ and if you dont have (x86) it will just be Program Files

Press Enter.
Find and open the Maps folder.
Delete the contents inside the Maps folder.
This only removes downloaded map data/cache.
It does not delete your character progression on servers.

You can also clear:

Cache folder → general cached assets
Downloads folder → downloaded workshop/server content

After that, restart the game and reconnect to the server. Rust will redownload fresh map data.

This can help fix:

Stuck on “Downloading World”
Corrupted map textures
Invisible terrain/buildings
Long loading issues
Server map mismatch errors

The boats decay in about 18 hours but if you mount the steering wheel on the boat and have a boat building station on you. You should get a option to deploy and edit when looking at the steering wheel and once you deploy the building station it will put you in edit mode and once ya pick it back up your boat is fully repaired.

Our servers wipe on the first Thursday of every month, in sync with Rust’s official forced wipe.

Rust updates constantly, and wipes are required to apply new content, map changes, and backend improvements that would otherwise break existing saves. A wipe resets the map and most player progress, giving everyone a fresh start and ensuring the server runs on the latest version of the game.

On our modded servers, some long-term progression carries over between wipes:

• Net worth never wipes — it’s your permanent progression
• Player levels wipe every 3 months, not monthly

This means you still get the excitement of a fresh map each month while keeping meaningful long-term goals to work toward.

Because we follow the official Rust wipe schedule, you can always expect RustEZ to wipe on the first Thursday of each month.

If you completed #welcome → Become Verified, but your Discord role is not showing, your account likely needs to be relinked. Follow the steps below to fully reset and sync your Discord connection.

Relinking your Discord account

1. Leave the RustEZ Discord server
2. Log in to your account on the RustEZ website
3. Click the drop-down arrow next to your name
4. Select Account Settings
5. Open the Discord tab
6. Click Configure → Sign Out
7. Rejoin Discord using this link: discord.gg/rustez
8. Click Continue, read and accept the rules, then click Submit
9. Go to #verify-here and click Verify on Wick’s message to receive the visitor role
10. Sync your RustEZ role here: rustez.com/link

Important:

• Make sure you enter the full Discord username, including the 4-digit tag
• Role updates can take 15–20 minutes to appear
• Do not change your Discord username during the process

The colored names you see in chat indicate different roles within the RustEZ community. These colors help players quickly recognize staff, supporters, and community members.

Blue — Community Member
Standard player role. Everyone starts here.

Orange — VIP Member
Community member with VIP status and supporter perks.

Pink — Subscriber
Community member with active subscription benefits.

Green — Staff
RustEZ administrators. Follow their instructions during events or disputes.

Role colors are cosmetic and help with identification. They do not change gameplay rules or protections outside of official staff responsibilities.

You can generate styled text directly onto a sign — no external image editing needed. Control background color, text color, alignment, and size using simple arguments. Just look at a sign before running the command.

/silt text:<text> bg:<color|url>

/silt text:Hello World bg:black

/silt text:Warning bg:red color:white
/silt text:Rust bg:#49485a color:255,255,255

/silt text:Hello bg:black align:left

/silt text:Big bg:blue size:72

A homing beacon is an item that can be purchased from the Black Market, which can be deployed at special landmarks to unlock the location in your home interface to teleport to later, similar to Home Teleports.

Supported Monuments
The beacon can only be used at supporting monuments. These are typically safe zones or non-consiquential zones.

• Outpost
• Bandit Camp
• Giant Excavator
• Stone Quarry
• Sulfur Quarry
• HQM Quarry
• Large Barn
• Ranch
• Apartment Complex

How to deploy
Once you've reached the landmark, deploy a Homing Beacon by either left or right clicking. After it is deployed, that landmark will be unlocked, and you can teleport to it from the home menu for the same cost as a normal home teleport.

The exact location saved depends on where you are standing when the beacon is thrown. If you want to change the saved position later, you’ll need to deploy a new Homing Beacon.

Certain entities you place can be levelled up, which scales (if applicable) consumption as well as production with the level amount.
For example: If you have an Electric Furnace at level 2, it'll perform & consume twice as much. Level 3 will triple it, etc.
Important: Levelling up beyond level 10 usually costs Net Worth, which is displayed on the upgrade UI.

Here's an up-to-date list of all entities which can be levelled up across all of our modded servers.

You can earn credits on modded through several gameplay activities, including selling items to the black market, killing NPCs, completing challenges, and receiving welfare while you are online.

Welfare is earned passively as you play, while other credit sources depend on what you do in-game. The more you participate in activities, loot, fight, sell, and progress, the more opportunities you have to build your net worth.

You can submit a help ticket to discreetly report the player. When reporting a player, include as much detail as possible:

• Server and region
• Player name or SteamID if known
• Approximate time it happened
• Grid, coordinates, or nearby landmark
• What rule was broken
• What was taken, damaged, blocked, or said
• Screenshots or video if available

Please avoid accusing players publicly in chat. A help ticket lets staff review logs and evidence discreetly. In-game F7 reporting should be used only for players who are hacking/cheating or experiencing game bugs.

You can place any image directly onto a sign using a URL. Just look at the sign before running the command.

/sil <url>

/sil <url> <frame>

/sil https://example.com/image 2

A rejected connection to a RustEZ server with the message "Steam Auth: gamebanned" means your account has an EAC ban. The effects of the game ban are determined by the developer.
This is not a server-specific ban that we can assist with. More information on Game Bans can be found here, in Steam Support. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46DB-4CEC-F7E9-49E5

All of our servers are unique in their own way. You can find a list of features for each server by checking out our compare page.