Phasing out physical quarries and pumpjacks

[PyroMonster]

1 hour ago, JP Michaels said:

Will there be homing beacons available for the monuments?

There are already homing beacons for the 3 quarries, hopefully there will be homing beacons set for where the 3 PJs are.

 

So I have never used the public quarries but I'm assuming when it says STONE Quarry , HQM quarry etc, that those particular quarries only give those specific items. If thats the case then I would think going over the level 10 that the quarries have now OR the quarries having greater yield than what they have now for each level, to simulate what it would be like to have 2 or 3 personal quarries. 

As it stands right now if you have 2 quarries you get all 4 items at lvl 10 so that's double the return, where if you only have 1 quarry that gives 1 item like stone, only going to a lvl 10 would only give 1x the product unless each level was greatly buffed. 

So if the quarries could be possibly like the way Death was suggesting wth the PJs that would be fantastic too.

[Catatonic21]

1 hour ago, BlazeRelfuxBoi said:

3 pump jacks do justice to those who spend money for more than 3 lvl 20 pj’s? In my opinion it doesn’t make sense, again unless it’s for reasons other than server performance / saving playable space, for the change to occur. Essentially this takes the original (money/afk time permitting) non restricted limit of lgf production, to at max of 3 (granted the map generation permits).

 

 

 

On 7/23/2026 at 10:09 AM, Death said:

Since we are going off instanced rates each level would be more susbstantial. Level cap will be higher than it is now. 

 

 

[lordnavi]

14 hours ago, Death said:

Elysium never had /rec 

aware elysium hasnt had /rec. 
my point was more so vip perks should be being applied globally to give the freedom of choice on what servers are played on.

(being able to login on linux clients to any of the servers even with the extra auth step would also be nice but am aware that opens up a whole different can of worms)

i understand on pure its a fp enforcement issue so those are out... but for the rest...

even as a 1 off payment if it works everywhere than it brings more income to the servers as more people are likely to purchace it...

Edited Saturday at 05:11 AM by lordnavi
added a line

[lordnavi]

or.... Adjust the recyclers in outpost to give full rate so we arnt clogging up monuments needlessly

[Sweet Tooth]

37 minutes ago, lordnavi said:

or.... Adjust the recyclers in outpost to give full rate so we arnt clogging up monuments needlessly

You could use the ones in harbor, oxums or mining outpost ETC

Our buy one from the store and place it inside of your base 

[lordnavi]

5 hours ago, Sweet Tooth said:

You could use the ones in harbor, oxums or mining outpost ETC

Our buy one from the store and place it inside of your base 

...why should one have to buy a recycler every month when one has purchaced vip (purchaced many years ago at this point)  that includes a recycler... (it also included extra bag space that has been taken away globally as well) was the point being made....

sure if you want to automate stuff fully buy several pipe them up and job done if you got the spare cash IRL to do that...

there is no reason for vip perks not to work or not be enabled on any server in the library other than the pure server for the known reasons with fp... 

you seem to have also missed entirely the point in earlier posts of monuments resetting while processing stuff and clogging up monuments that people would otherwise be wanting to run for actual loot...

its mostly an arguement for fairness across servers overall... 

the server models are pay to play / play to win as is and as always has been. 

just asking that PAID perks work equally across the servers that are capable of supporting them.

As far as i remember... VIP was arround before elyssium and was sold without any * at the time about not working on certain servers.

at the end of the day they are your servers and run them how you wish, they have been a good community hub for myself and several friends on and off  for many years now. 

Just asking you to consider the above.

Kind Regards.

[lordnavi]

because i didnt trust my memory here is the purchace description from your old website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211025072156/https://rustez.com/store/product/11-vip/

 

VIP

$20.00

VIP is a one-time payment and is valid on all RustEZ servers!
 

Perks
• Instant Crafting*
• Portable recycler (/rec)
• Free daily supply drop (/vip)
• Orange username color
• VIP access to our Discord
• No fuel consumption for ovens*

* These perks are not available on our vanilla servers.

Included Items (one-time)
• Supply Drop x5
• Mass Gift x1

 

[lordnavi]

and uppon some more browsing the wording stayed the same from 2021-2025 that i can directly view,

so the product was sold as being to a perk on all rust ez servers the most current one i can browse is 
https://web.archive.org/web/20251215234948/https://rustez.com/store/product/11-vip/ 

 

Edited Saturday at 04:31 PM by lordnavi

[Catatonic21]

Elysium was never made or advertised as a VIP server it used to be a subscriber server witch was recently opened to the public

[Sgttuggle]

I sell recyclers test gens and toilets on US elysium at the beginning of every wipe to help out the community 

[lordnavi]

43 minutes ago, Sgttuggle said:

I sell recyclers test gens and toilets on US elysium at the beginning of every wipe to help out the community 

nice  playing on AU elysium so we dont have community support whales as yet

[Sweet Tooth]

8 hours ago, lordnavi said:

because i didnt trust my memory here is the purchace description from your old website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211025072156/https://rustez.com/store/product/11-vip/

 

VIP

$20.00

VIP is a one-time payment and is valid on all RustEZ servers!
 

Perks
• Instant Crafting*
• Portable recycler (/rec)
• Free daily supply drop (/vip)
• Orange username color
• VIP access to our Discord
• No fuel consumption for ovens*

* These perks are not available on our vanilla servers.

Included Items (one-time)
• Supply Drop x5
• Mass Gift x1

 

The extra bag space you got was never a listed Perk of VIP it was more like a happy little bonus, when Facepunch brought in the in game bags the whole backpack mod was removed in favor of the in game bags which have been modified so you can have a bag in every clothing spot allowing you to carry more then the old bag system allowed for.

As Cata said Elysium was always a closed Sub only server has only been made public in the last year or so it never had the /REC or the no fuel in the ovens as a part of it perk system 

[Death]

We appreciate everyone worried they aren't going to be able to throw us as much money anymore with these changes, but let me assure you every decision we're making is to maximize the amount of money we can extract from you. Give us some time to cook and don't worry too much as the new system will be much more convenient than you think.

[ShadowStorm]

Any plans to add any new membership levels? Currently there is VIP & SUBSCRIBER , maybe add another membership type with some exclusive perks ?

[Death]

30 minutes ago, ShadowStorm said:

Any plans to add any new membership levels? Currently there is VIP & SUBSCRIBER , maybe add another membership type with some exclusive perks ?

No. If any new perks are added it will be added to one of those.

[BigDave]

On 7/25/2026 at 3:10 PM, lordnavi said:

aware elysium hasnt had /rec. 
my point was more so vip perks should be being applied globally to give the freedom of choice on what servers are played on.

(being able to login on linux clients to any of the servers even with the extra auth step would also be nice but am aware that opens up a whole different can of worms)

i understand on pure its a fp enforcement issue so those are out... but for the rest...

even as a 1 off payment if it works everywhere than it brings more income to the servers as more people are likely to purchace it...

This may not be popular...

Maybe the VIP /rec perk should be changed to a physical recycler. It would be a little less "magic" and more immersive with the potential to level up your VIP recycler from the store. 

You'd lose the ability to recycle anywhere for the bonus of more realistic immersion into the Rust world . It might also be something that may be more Elysium friendly.

It should still meet the 'personal recycler' perk as advertised.  Personally I wouldn't mind, I've played enough Pure and Elysium that it wouldn't bother me in the least.

[TiffDust]

6 hours ago, BigDave said:

This may not be popular...

Maybe the VIP /rec perk should be changed to a physical recycler. It would be a little less "magic" and more immersive with the potential to level up your VIP recycler from the store. 

You'd lose the ability to recycle anywhere for the bonus of more realistic immersion into the Rust world . It might also be something that may be more Elysium friendly.

It should still meet the 'personal recycler' perk as advertised.  Personally I wouldn't mind, I've played enough Pure and Elysium that it wouldn't bother me in the least.

Nothing stopping the technique of buying a recycler for use on elysium and taking it everywhere you go as a personal recycler. As it cant be automated there, makes sense.

[Sweet Tooth]

7 hours ago, BigDave said:

This may not be popular...

Maybe the VIP /rec perk should be changed to a physical recycler. It would be a little less "magic" and more immersive with the potential to level up your VIP recycler from the store. 

You'd lose the ability to recycle anywhere for the bonus of more realistic immersion into the Rust world . It might also be something that may be more Elysium friendly.

It should still meet the 'personal recycler' perk as advertised.  Personally I wouldn't mind, I've played enough Pure and Elysium that it wouldn't bother me in the least.

with Elysium been changed from sub only the VIP perks now show what you can use on each server so I personally feel there is no need to change it if I want a Rec on there I just buy one from the web store 

[BigDave]

17 hours ago, Sweet Tooth said:

with Elysium been changed from sub only the VIP perks now show what you can use on each server so I personally feel there is no need to change it if I want a Rec on there I just buy one from the web store 

I don't disagree, fighting into a monument to recycle is half the fun. I used to buy a recycler but I don't bother any more.

My comment was actually more aimed at the other servers. Death memtioned that he didn't want mods to feel like magic, I thought that a personal recycler that you have to place would be more immersive on Survival/Scourge. If people pushed for it on Elysium then it would be less OP than the current mod.

I have a private server that I play around on, currently it's completely vanilla except for Better NPCs. That's a bit of a challenge, even the air drops are guarded (but have vanilla guns etc). Elysium is a bit more relaxing

I tried static lootables (awesome on Elysium) but had trouble configuring it, more a me problem.

Is the boat mod used on Elysium publicly available or is it in house? Really nice mod for PvE.

[Catatonic21]

33 minutes ago, BigDave said:

Is the boat mod used on Elysium publicly available or is it in house? Really nice mod for PvE.

Easy Sailing by Corvus

[lordnavi]

this might be a bit of a hot take on it, but....

It is hard to make these systems feel any less than magic, as your still moving many tonnes equiv of ore magically through the air to a reciever box in the base under the new system. i think the disconnect is trying to make things make more real world sence in a game that already defies logic on so many levels.

(eg teleport beacons, unlimited non diminishing resorces, near instant regrowth forests, magic loot box replenishment etc)

to that end save some dev time and players 5 mins at the start of the wipe and just ignore needing to visit each structure and place a magical teleport beacon. just make the magical resorce giving box the entire thing feed it the right fuel for the resorce your gathering  and just have a power button for each resorce node with the upgrade button beneath it with the automation adaptors for each output type.

just my 5 cents on the concept. call it a deep vein drill and say for the sake or realism that its extracting the resorces below where it is placed given all resources come out of the ground in rust anyways...

can you got 1 step thurther and add a water outlet to it as well?  given we have options for in land premium water sources anyways?

may as well make it a 1 stop resorce hub, than add a recycler on the side so we can pipe waste boxes into it to get our other stuff (combines most of the premium shop items into a nice upgradable black box to handle all our resources and premium features) 

than not sure if its possible, but web hook it back to the rustez store, so you can manage the entire thing in game without needing to visit the webstore  

we may as well integrate the premium features into a nice fully in world all in 1 interface

can we also get upgradable planter boxes please? 

Edited 3 hours ago by lordnavi
typos

[lordnavi]

forgot to add.... please make the black box somewhat expensive so people have to do some farming initially  so maby 2k hiqual 1k scrap 10k metal 10k stone 20k wood.

that way it adds some time investment to playing the game before you get your magical black box

for the black box itself merge the quarry / pump jack / water well / vending machine and recycler into a fixed asset that can only be placed on a 3x3 foundation  maby add some greebleing and other elements to it

the vending machine/shop can be the in game version of the rust ez store make it use a fake currency called EZcoin than sell just the ezcoin in the webstore

Edited 3 hours ago by lordnavi

[lordnavi]

another concept would be to make them a deployable over the railway line so than it gives you the feeling of realism of material transport (given rust is slowly linking monuments and requireing power in the future to be accessable)

maby expand on that concept ahead of time and encourage base building along the rail network and have people run rail cars to the various monuments to collect their liquids and physical items (the train yard unloading dock could be replicated as a player entity) (you could also use the car system to make players haul resorces back in bulk as an alternative to the train so players are not forced to use the rail network.

this could also add the game play dimension of people hijacking your train while moving it back to base or even have npc try to blow up the train, this would add whole new dimensions of game play to the resource gathering loop if your wanting to go for "realistic" game play elements.

 

this would help move away from the afk near free resorce generation loop and encourage active game play on the servers.

Edited 3 hours ago by lordnavi

[Sweet Tooth]

1 hour ago, lordnavi said:

can we also get upgradable planter boxes please? 

This will never be a thing on the EZ servers due to how much it would be abused.

 

1 hour ago, lordnavi said:

to that end save some dev time and players 5 mins at the start of the wipe and just ignore needing to visit each structure and place a magical teleport beacon.

Having the players place the Beacons to unlock the TP spot helps to encourage players to get out of their base and actually travel to the locations of the TP at the start of wipe.

 

1 hour ago, lordnavi said:

this could also add the game play dimension of people hijacking your train while moving it back to base or even have npc try to blow up the train, this would add whole new dimensions of game play to the resource gathering loop if your wanting to go for "realistic" game play elements.

This sounds very much like a PvP element which is not something we are interested in adding to the servers.

 

1 hour ago, lordnavi said:

this might be a bit of a hot take on it, but....

It is hard to make these systems feel any less than magic, as your still moving many tonnes equiv of ore magically through the air to a reciever box in the base under the new system. i think the disconnect is trying to make things make more real world sence in a game that already defies logic on so many levels.

Who's to say that the box isn't piped underground to the  Quarry's that it is connected to.

 

 

1 hour ago, lordnavi said:

can you got 1 step thurther and add a water outlet to it as well?  given we have options for in land premium water sources anyways?

This sounds like the Land water pump we have on the webstore.

 

[lordnavi]

2 minutes ago, Sweet Tooth said:

given we have options for in land premium water

yep i literally said in what you quoted you already offer it as a premium service it was a suggestion of a merge of all the premium services into the one black box deployable