Theodore Baggins

This problem appears to still exist for some players. @Oxeus knows the most details about this, as he has been selling the signals from his vending machine. Apparently (as you can see in the chat), it says "Apache Distress Signal" in inventory, but when it is either dispensed through a vending machine or even dropped to another player, it changes to saying "Smoke Grenade" in that other player's inventory. I bought one of the signals from his shop and tried it in this video—it had the apache logo on it but said "Smoke Grenade" when clicked in inventory. The result was, as expected with this bug, just a smoke grenade. Rust 2024-01-23 01-04-58.mp4 However, when I bought a signal from the store, and moved it from my inventory to my backpack and back again, it didn't change. It's limited data, since it was one signal moved into my backpack and not then into a box or vending machine, but I figured more data is better when debugging. Rust 2024-01-25 21-20-59.mp4

I realized that I didn't change this bug from Pure to Scourge; sorry about that!

Official Entry: Theodore Baggins P0 Many Theos were harmed in the making of this image. Many... many... Theos... Keeping this in (for the record) as it was my first entry. Theodore Baggins (Arctic Research) After the deadline because I misread things but I went for night scene:

Rust 2024-01-20 12-03-48.mp4 When I attempted it with one bought straight from the store, it worked. However, it no longer said "smoke grenade" in my inventory, but "apache distress signal".

Here is a video of the behavior. This was a signal that was given to me by another player, placed in a box, and then removed. If I had to hazard a guess, placing it in the box might have broken things? I used other signals before putting them in the box. The box in question is at my base in the Southeast swamp on Scourge. Rust 2024-01-20 11-58-56.mp4

On US Scourge, many players have reported helis won't come. Personally I have verified this twice; no message or heli when thrown.

Gotta fact check you there @Lord McGuffin, brains are nearly 60% fat (source) Still, recent studies have shown that there is a higher correlation between sugar intake and personal fat storage, rather than fat consumption, itself. This coupled with the marathon-running ability of our zombies would indicate that our zeds would indeed have a very low fat content. Players, on the other hand, eat far too much chocolate and have shown an inclination towards a more sedentary lifestyle with the advent of cars, a variety of helicopters, boats, snowmobiles, and now teleportation instead of good ol-fashioned cardio. Gone are the days of taking on bears with our bare hands and barely surviving to tell the tale. Instead we sit and fish and set snap-traps. It's times like these that I think back and remember the good ol times... where we could stack fishing rods up to 50 and get milcrate loot and fish by just clicking periodically. Now that was exercise! 😆

I think this is a good idea, but also wonder if it takes some of the teeth away from the Rust experience. Having to revive back at your base and re-gear up to fight your way through the masses to your bag seems a little closer to the Pure experience where this is all you could do. A counter-proposal would be to have the map record your last... uh... several death locations. That way if things went sideways again when you were trying to get your bag back (hypothetically... in a minicopter accident where you lagged into a cliff in your rush to get your bag), you wouldn't lose that first marker.

I second this - I'm thinking they could be upgraded similar to a pumpjack? From a base size perspective, it'd allow much more compact builds, and from a rendering perspective, there'd be far fewer entities. Some of the megafactories, especially if they have windows to show off all their furnaces (cough @Sawyer cough), create what amounts to no-fly zones nearby. I imagine upgradeable electrical furnaces may be more difficult to code because they would require different amounts of power, but I think starting with the large furnaces and refineries would make the biggest difference, since everyone has to place those outside.

It'd be great if you could add a keycode lock to a snowmobile. Might not be worth the effort for how much it'd be used, but I use the snowmobile when I'm out and about gathering nodes and it'd be nice to have some peace of mind knowing that someone couldn't run off with or access the stash/fuel. Not sure if it'd make the code easier, but it'd also work just as well for me if it just allowed team access, sort of like the helicopters.

I have spent extensive amounts of time testing the snowmobile, and I am proud to announce that it is also an extremely capable sand-mobile. Like... faster than a car on a beach. In the desert, you'll hit grass occasionally, but then when you're about to get up, you'll suddenly rocket through the ground into a cactus a click away. 10/10 recommend. Downside: you must get a snowmobile to the desert and/or beach and also avoid all trees and/or bases along the way.

Hehe we need Google Maps' "parking location" feature. Have definitely lost my car as trees have grown around it.

feel like overt explanation of the rules will inherently lead to exploitation and circumvention of the rules. We all play Rust. We see horses and we think... I want to get that into the military tunnels, despite ever yindication that the game in no way allows that. Especially on PvE, we're contently pushing boundaries. And if we define what those boundaries are for other players, it may lead to the same behavior: find the smallest exploit and make the most of it. The push-pull cycle of griefing, theft, harassment, etc requires flexible rules on the parts of the admins, especially as each wipe cycle brings new features but also new bugs. Unfortunately, Wheaton's Law (don't be a d*ck), isn't comprehensive enough for the average PvP'er turned PvE'er. My counter-proposal is to make it as seamless and clear as possible for players to report people, as well as a solid warning system. Encourage people to take screenshots and/or video. And I think the support online system on this site is a really good step in that direction. I don't know if there's a "define" for that in game to direct people to, but I'm excited to see what we can do by empowering good players instead of chastising bad ones.

Partial Solution: I was able to see consistently more memory use and much less rubber-banding when I added ""-Xmx32G -high" to the launch options. I only saw Rust chew up 20GB, but I was able to drive at relatively normal speeds without stuttering. If anyone else has suggestions, let me know!

I've noticed that Rust will have issues when I try to move fast in complex areas where the map hasn't drawn in everything yet or there is complex physics (i.e. multiple helis and explosions, etc.) However, the server seems to keep up; for example, on the train, I will always travel the right distance at high speed, it just might not be smooth. My first question is, given that the server seems to be performing as expected, is this a client-side issue? If so, how can I improve the experience? I have 64GB of RAM, but Rust is only using 16 of that. My graphics card and CPUs are nowhere near max—even my VRAM isn't hitting the 12GB limit that it used to. It's worth noting that the hardware is old workstation: 2x quadcore xeon's that are at 3.6 max, but a decade old, and an Titan XP. I've also considered that there may simply be limits on the IPC or RAM speed. So I understand the answer could be, you need to get something newer. But the fact that it uses precisely 16GB of RAM while no cores are pinned and the GPU is at 40% is really odd to me. (and thermals are even lower than workstations' standards)

This seems to be correct. From some of MeatLauncher's spreadsheet, I can see magic number seems to be 4320LGF/day. The math leads to, powered by LGF, the public quarries will yield: Sulfur => 17280 Stone / Metal => 86400 / 17280 HQM => 4320 However, as I learned (just leaving here for reference to others), the giant excavator offers far higher quantities per day, when fed from the conversion to diesel, and is more efficient even considering the conversion: 4.44 sulfur per LGF vs 4. However, you have to hop on every 18 hours to get maximum yield. More info in that sweet spreadsheet!

I think I maybe didn't explain things quite right—I'm on Scourge, so I've been trying to figure out what the lgf fuel consumption and yield is for each of the quarries, and how much crude I can produce with a lvl 1 pumpjack a day. The picture was more just what I found for vanilla, but I know that one lgf definitely doesn't convert to diesel haha! Are there numbers for like yield per day on Scourge? I may hop on and try running things for 10 minutes to see how much I get.

I've been trying to see if my idea for a larger heli base would be sustainable on my own or if I should team up with someone else. However, because Scourge is modded, I've found it difficult to figure out the numbers for things based off of my own googling. Our quarries don't require diesel, so the standard figures from rustlabs aren't as helpful. I figured that you all might have the numbers; if not, I can do some math and update this post so others can reference it! What is the consumption rate of low grade in a pumpjack? I understand the yield is 1 lgf to 1 crude here. What is the consumption rate of low grade in the quarries? And the yield rate? If it is simply the same yield but x amount of lgf = 1 diesel, then I'll do the math. Thanks so much for your help!

Is this a skin for the standard rug? I didn't know you could make them smaller!

Oooh I love this. I keep meticulous screenshot histories of each Rust wipe. My first Rust screenshot is from about 3 months after I tried Rust in April 2018, when Vin Dizzle and I finally found RustEZ. We started on Pure. I had hopped out of my car while driving and promptly drove over myself. When I came back I nabbed a shot. Ah... I've warmed up to the new cars but this makes me nostalgic. Vin and I set up a shop that wipe called Bulletz and Bear Meatz. It did what it said on the tin. @Huddicle, who was an admin at the time tried to jump a river in a car and it ended predictably.

It happened again to our base- not sure why it was reset.

Happy New Year Everyone! I'm so grateful to the community for being here this year and grateful for the admins and Death for helping steer the ship through the choppy waters. I'm grateful for all the old faces that keep coming back and the new ones who continue to surprise me with their creativity. I count myself as lucky to have found a safe place online that allows me to build, explore, play, and gather together to have fun. Video games have meant more to me than an escape this year- in the lockdown they've meant a way for me to gather with friends and meet new ones. Thanks to all for helping make that happen.