Month: April 2023

Power Plant Event

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The event begins with a chat warning: soon CH47 will get new crates with items for scientists to the Power Plant location. When the time is up, the NPCs guarding this location will appear in the Power Plant zone. Then a water barrel will appear on the top of the central building. A CH47 will fly to this location to get new crates with items. When the CH47 arrives in the Event zone, it will fail to control and crash in a cooling tower of the power plant. All the crates from the CH47 will be on the top of the cooling tower. But they will be in the fire. You need put out the fire to get access to the crates.

It is necessary to activate a fire system to put out the fire. A fire system is on the top of the central building. A Workcart will arrive to the Event area to bring a barrel of water. You need move this water from the Workcart to the empty barrel on the top of the central building. As soon as you do this, you will be able to start the fire system by pressing a button.

When the fire system has activated, the fire in the cooling tower will be out. You will be able to access the crates in the cooling tower. There is a camera in the location for viewing the event. When an event appears, a marker will display on the map. All players in the event area have a timer with countdown to the end of the event

Sputnik

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Sputnik is a server event that allows players to contest fallen sputnik satellite fragments that fall around the map. Players will need to battle their way past patrol helicopters, NPCs, turrets, and mines to gain access to loot locked behind keycards that require ‘Space Cards’.

Space Card

A card reader can be placed on any type of sputnik debris. By default, it is activated using a purple “Space Card.” This card reader opens the crates specified in a special section of the config. A custom card can be added to the loot tables of standard crates and crates of this event. It can also be given with the help of a command or sold in the server store. If necessary, the card reader can be removed, and the card can be replaced with any type of standard card.

April 2023 Mid-Month Wipe Update

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Greetings everyone! It’s time for another mid-month wipe update. I will take the server offline Thursday, April 20th, around 1pm EST. I’ll spend the next hour updating the map and wiping the server. As always, if the server is up and running before I announce it in Discord, it will be protected with a whitelist, as that means I am testing everything.

The map is a customized procedurally generated map. Cobalt Police Department (the big one) is on the map and confirmed working. It is guarded by a Bradley and scientists. Project Riese is also back this wipe. This is a mostly underground bunker located on an island. There’s a bunch of scientists inside with lots of loot and puzzles. Around the map will be many new roadside monuments. These are static and will always be in the same spot, unlike the regular roadside monuments. Most contain loot although a couple are just eye candy. There’s also one underground custom cave that has buildable areas that is not marked on the map. As of now that’s all of the customizations, although I may do a little more before the wipe.

The Skill Tree XP will wipe this time with the blueprints remaining. Make sure you unlock everything you can with whatever scrap you have left over before the wipe! That’s it for now!

April 6th Wipe Update

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Here comes Cobalt Cotton Tail, hoppin’ down the Rusty trail!

Hello everyone! The first Thursday in April wipe is nigh! On Thursday, April 6th, at 2pm EST, Facepunch will release the latest Rust update and our server will wipe! For details on what’s coming up in the Rust update, go here: https://www.rustafied.com/.

The new map will be a customized proc gen map. Some of the customized stuff that will be on the server can be found in Discord, in the Update Preview channel. Included on the map this wipe, we’ll have the abandoned motel, featured previously on our server. This one is a little updated with a green card room and a little extra loot in there. Also on the map is the Military Station monument. There are NPC’s here to protect the loot. Out in the water you’ll find an underwater bunker. The Launch site has the missile silo you may have seen before. I’m sure the one that Facepunch is working on will much nicer, but for now we have this one. Be sure to bring key cards of every variety and some fuses. Oh, and bring guns and lots of ammo as well as radiation protection! Elsewhere on the map you’ll find a seaside fishing vendor for a little flavor. There may be additional things on the map but you’ll have to be surprised.

I think many players will be excited by this one. Starting this wipe, you will have the ability to call in a PERSONAL CARGO SHIP! You’ll find a “Harbor Master” at either harbor. Go to him, interact with him and pay 1000 scrap to buy the cargo ship. A portal will appear. You and your teammates can enter that portal and you will be teleported to the cargo ship. There will be a portal on the cargo ship that you can use to return to the harbor. The vanilla cargo ship will be disabled. Initially there will only be 1 level of cargo ship. Eventually I will add additional tiers that include more scientists and better loot. This is a plugin that is in active development. It will have new features added as time goes on. I am in the Discord server for the plugin dev and he’s working hard on this plugin.

As always, the server will be taken offline around 1pm EST on Thursday to allow me to wipe the server and set up the new map. If the server goes back up prior to 2pm EST, it will be whitelisted. A post will be made when it’s open to the public. I expect to be on the server at wipe to address the many issues that are sure to accompany a Rust update!