Phasing out physical quarries and pumpjacks

[Sweet Tooth]

Just now, lordnavi said:

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  

the problem with that is those items in the webstore are used to help pay for the running of the servers If you add them to a Item that can be brought from the Black-market it then lessens the webstore sales which then could mean the servers are no longer paying to keep themselves running 

[lordnavi]

1 minute ago, Sweet Tooth said:

the problem with that is those items in the webstore are used to help pay for the running of the servers If you add them to a Item that can be brought from the Black-market it then lessens the webstore sales which then could mean the servers are no longer paying to keep themselves running 

did you read the part where it was suggested to use a premium currency purchaced from the web store ??

i know there is a bit there but read the 3 posts in full it covered the monitization...

[lordnavi]

tldr
you build the black box not buy it.... (to encourage some initial game farming)

the item acts as an ingame hub for store item procurement and services using a premium currency purchaced from the web store to ground the system in game. so you get to provide ALL the premium items for a currency that is only acquired from the web store (the EZcoin)

so the 1 grand EZ service hub for each players base everything can be bought and used and it recieves and provides the various automated resorces all the upgrades are still purchaced using glorious cash via the ezcoin.

[lordnavi]

it achieves the other goal stated by death of cutting the overall entity count down with everything merged into a single entity

[Sweet Tooth]

11 minutes ago, lordnavi said:

did you read the part where it was suggested to use a premium currency purchaced from the web store ??

i know there is a bit there but read the 3 posts in full it covered the monitization...

There are rules in Facepunches TOS from doing such a thing 

[Sweet Tooth]

3 minutes ago, lordnavi said:

it achieves the other goal stated by death of cutting the overall entity count down with everything merged into a single entity

but adds way more overhead to make that system work defeating the whole point 

[lordnavi]

10 minutes ago, Sweet Tooth said:

There are rules in Facepunches TOS from doing such a thing 

so they allow 3rd parties to sell in game items for real world cash but dont allow selling a in game token to be used for redeeming the same items??  

genuine question there as i am not farmiliar with the ins and outs of the TOS regarding monitization.

Edited yesterday at 06:13 AM by lordnavi

[lordnavi]

from a quick read of the community server and hosting guidelines they appear to support selling your own server currency?. so on the surface that shouldnt be an issue? 

[silver196543]

On 7/25/2026 at 11:36 PM, Death said:

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.

somehow i get the feeling that this is where it's heading, to extract as much money from the players to help with the cost of the new so called " system", but what happens when the new "system" breaks,  and it takes several days to rectify.?

 

[PyroMonster]

On 7/27/2026 at 5:08 PM, 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.

Yeah I'm not a fan of this idea, I like the/rec perk. One of the reasons ai play on this server. It has helped me out many times. 

As far as "magic" goes and things wanting to seem more like realism, let's face it this is a video game we are talking about. You can only make it seem so "real" a few things is no big deal. 

[Death]

10 hours ago, silver196543 said:

somehow i get the feeling that this is where it's heading, to extract as much money from the players to help with the cost of the new so called " system", but what happens when the new "system" breaks,  and it takes several days to rectify.?

If it breaks we'll extract more money from you to fix it.

[lordnavi]

new tier idea:
supporter:  a subcription for those that would normally buy everything anyway to support their server / community

• comes with everything fully upgraded each month 
• comes with xx amount premium tokens to purchace extra items from the web store
• gives discord rank: pillar of the community 
• same or slightly better discount perk from subscriber tier

[AbsenceOfLight]

are we playing rust or pokemon go though 

[Quash]

• Would it be one Hopper Station deployed per public quarry/pj for the automation, or would you be able to control multiple from one hopper station?
• Any thoughts on the projected cost in the black market for the hopper station?
• Would the quarry be injected into the playtime weekly claimable rewards?

[Darktweets]

On 7/23/2026 at 5:15 AM, Death said:

Over the years we've been slowly phasing these out as most of the in-game mechanics have been stripped out of the game, they take too much space and are just a hassle to set up by players. We've discussed previously about simply creating new models but that wouldn't solve one of the major flaws, which is placement.

After much consideration, we've decided we're going to phase them both out completely and instead utilize the public instanced quarries and pumpjacks instead. These can be leveled up to improve production exactly as you can now, just they will live at monuments instead of your base.

We understand the advantage of having them the way they are is to avoid travel time and unnecessary friction transferring these items from each quarry and pumpjack back to your base and we thought about this. With this change, you will now be able to purchase a Hopper Station from the black market which will enable automatic transfer to and from to restock with fuel and grab production to be processed back at your base.

This will allow you to place adapters to properly automate processing material and keeping them fed with fuel to ensure players are able to re-create the previous quality of life from the current system. We're unsure how often transfers will happen, or if we'll allow the station to be upgradable just yet but we'll keep you updated as development continues.

Servers that previously did not have quarries like Scourge and Elysium will not be able to upgrade quarries initially, but we do plan to enable this as we figure out how quarries will be obtained. It's likely quarries will join pumpjacks on the store and be a purchasable upgrade. On Survival, these will remain free as they are now but in the interest of improving server funding we may consider moving these to store exclusives eventually.
 

TL;DR

1. Quarries and Pumpjacks removed as player deployables.
2. You'll be able to upgrade public quarries and pumpjacks instead.
3. New deployable added to black market that will auto deliver resources to and from quarries and pumpjacks to allow automation.
4. Non Survival servers will not have upgradable quarries initially. Will likely be a store item as we do for pumpjacks.
5. Survival servers will be able to obtain quarries the same way they do now, but may change later on to help server funding.

 

Feedback

Nothing is finalized yet so we'd love to hear your feedback and ideas as we continue development.

Does this mean that the hopper will be possible to be placed indoors or only outdoors, attached to a barrel or a box, with multiple sockets attached for external? in case people wish to upgrade all the PJs on the map to maximum... also, will the hoppers have a no-build radius like the current PJs or Quarries? If we'll be able to upgrade the quarries to certain levels, what's the highest level we'll be able to go to?