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This month will bring some plugin updates. First off, we’ll be removing the Monument Lock plugin, which currently protects the oil rigs when players are on it and it’ll be replaced with Monument Owner. This plugin is much better and feature rich. Initially, it will protect only the oil rigs and cargo. With this plugin, non-owners of the monument will not be able to enter the bubble that will surround the monument. To become the monument owner, you must meet criteria that will be stated on your screen when entering the dome around the monument. This may be a certain amount of time inside the monument, unlocking a crate, etc. The map will show a green circle if the monument is unlocked, red if locked. A monument will unlock 120 seconds after the owner leaves and a player can only have 1 monument unlocked at once. Once you’ve locked a monument, you can not lock it again for 10 minutes. Eventually this will be expanded to include all of the major monuments. Right now there are conflicts with events spawning at monuments and the locking ability, so that’s why I’ve restricted it to those locations for now.

With this new plugin, the Personal Cargo Ship plugin will be removed. This is the plugin that allows you to type a command and get a cargo ship. The reason for that plugin was originally to prevent players from taking cargo when someone else is doing it. The Monument Owner plugin solves this issue. As Personal Cargo Ship is developed, I will reevaluate if it’s appropriate to add it again. That plugin has instanced cargo ships as a goal, so if that happens, it will likely be added back. With this change, I’m also reenabling regularly spawning cargo ships.

This wipe is a BP wipe so you still have 2 weeks until the skills are wiped. Now is the time to use your leftover scrap to respec your skills if needed. We’ll have a customized proc-gen map this wipe. I’ve added some nice custom monuments to the map and there’s custom buildable locations. The difference this time is that they are not marked on the map. You’ll need to discover them yourselves.

The plugins for this wipe will be non-monument specific and will include Convoy, Armored Train, Sputnik and one or two others. I am also planning on adding a brand new event that was just released yesterday that revolves around one of the gas stations. The exact events will be announced on wipe day.

Please remember that the server will be taken offline at 1pm EST on Thursday. You may see it online prior to the Rust update, but it will be protected by a whitelist. If you see a wipe notice prior to the Rust update, you can ignore it. I will announce when the server has been wiped and is ready to be played.

That’s all for this wipe. I hope everyone enjoys the map and the plugins. I’ll see you after the wipe!

Here we are again, another mid-month update! On Thursday, May 18th, the server will wipe. Since it’s the third Thursday, Skill Tree will wipe and BP will remain. As always, your coins and spawnable vehicles will not be wiped.

I conducted a poll on Discord this month to vote on the next map and Oregon: Land of the Dead won the vote. This is a really nice custom map with many custom monuments and many of the standard Facepunch monuments. Be warned that many of the custom monuments have custom NPC’s with firearms as well as Scarecrow and zombies NPC’s. If you’d like to read more about the map, go to the Oregon: Land of the Dead page. Due to the number of custom NPC’s on the map, BotReSpawn will be removed for this wipe. Other than that, no changes are planned.

The server will go offline around 1pm EST on Thursday so I can prep the server. If the server is online prior to 2pm EST, it will be whitelisted and you will not be able to join. I will announce in Discord when it is ready.

Happy May! For those of you in the northern hemisphere, that means that SPRING IS HERE! For those of you in the south, well.. It’s autumn so yeah… in any case, Facepunch is preparing to release their monthly Rust update on May 4th. This month seems to have a lot of changes that will very likely affect a great number of plugins on our server. I will do my best to be on the server after the wipe to address issues and update plugins as they come out. Please be prepared for issues on wipe day.

This month, Facepunch is adding the nuclear missile silo monument. It’s a major monument with scientists and loot including keycard puzzles. It’s very possible that this event will be linked with an end-of-wipe event such as a large nuclear explosion killing everyone and destroying everything. If this is what we’re getting, you can expect this event to run at 1pm EST on all wipe days except for third wipe on months with 5 Thursdays.

The map this month will be an unmodified procedurally generated map. I won’t be doing any edits because of the possibility of the missile silo being updated, which would require me to put any customizations on the map again. The good thing about this is better performance (in theory) than maps that are customized.

I have no plans to make any significant changes to configurations or plugins for this wipe. I’ll continue to rotate the events as needed. I don’t have anything else to add so I’ll see everyone on the server at 2pm EST on Thursday!

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!

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!

Hello everyone! This is the news post for our 1 week wipe! In any month that we have 5 Thursdays, we wipe for 1 week on the 5th Thurday. This wipe will last from March 30th to April 6th. Neither BP’s nor Skill Tree XP will wipe, so get those BP’s unlocked before the wipe!

I am still waiting to hear about something that I may need to do tomorrow that could prevent the wipe from being at 2pm, as it usually is. If I am going to be busy at that time, I will strive to wipe the server by 9am. The exact time will be confirmed as soon as I know if I’m going to be busy in the afternoon.

We will be running a custom map as determined by voting in the map voting channel of Discord. The map will be Synecdoche (https://lone.design/product/synecdoche-rust-map/). This map was up against Pokie Island and won. Pokie Island will be run during our 1 week wipe June 29th to July 6th. 

Our events will be rotated out but that list is yet to be determined. I don’t expect any big changes and as this isn’t a wipe where Rust updates, I don’t expect any real problems. That’s all I have for you! There will be another update in a week, just before the Rust update/wipe!

Welp, here we are! Another Third Thursday wipe! As always, the server will wipe at 2pm EST with the server going offline around 1pm so I can prep it. 

We’ll be running another customized procedurally generated map this wipe. If you’ve been watching the Map Update Preview channel in Discord, you’ve seen some of what is to come. There’s some of the old monuments I’ve used before and some new ones. For example, we will have the Airshop Docks. This consists of a dock for airships as well as several airships waiting to dock. These airships have scientists, loot and keycard puzzles. You can think of it as an event that is always running. The Temple of the Pookie is also a new one, sort of. This temple was on the server many months ago but it was not the Temple of the Pookie. There’s NPC’s and loot to find here, and of course a chance to worship the mighty Pookie God. The Cobalt PD is making an appearance again this wipe but instead of a Bradley guarding it, there will be police NPC’s! Lastly, there’s a second public heli tower on the map, but this one is in the ocean. When you shoot down the heli, NPC’s won’t parachute out. The wreckage of the heli and it’s loot will sink to the ocean floor. I recommend bringing a sub and diving gear to get it!

This wipe the Skill Tree XP will wipe and the BP’s will remain until the first Thursday of April. This month is also a 5 Thursday month, so the last week of the month will be a special 1 week wipe with a special map, but more on that when the time comes. Our events for this wipe will include Arctic, Airfield, Armored Train, Cobalt Lab and Heli Refuel. It is possible others might be added, but I will decide that as I’m setting up the server.

I hope everyone enjoys the new map. It should be a good wipe, as there’s no Rust update until the first Thursday of April, so it’s unlikely anything will get jacked up this wipe. I’ll see you on the server!

Wipe day is upon us! Today is the first Thursday of the month, so that means that Facepunch will be releasing an update to Rust, which is sure to break things. RF detonated C4 and drones are here! What a time to be alive! A breakdown of what to expect can be found on the Rusticated website (https://www.rustafied.com/). I fully expect plugins not to work and general shenanigans to be present due to the wipe. I will do my base to be around to squash any bugs that I find and to update plugins as they are released. 

This wipe, we’ll be running the following events: Convoy, Harbor, Space, Junkyard and Guarded Crate. The map will be a customized procedurally generated map, size 5000. If you’ve been checking out the Update Preview channel in Discord, you’ve already seen some of the stuff we’ve got on the server. I also double and triple checked the public heli tower to be sure the no-build zone is working.

As per the discussion in Discord, we’ll be adjusting the MLRS raid skill so that it can be used once every 10 minutes. I will be testing out a plugin that limits the number of horses you can own. This plugin will restrict those horses to 8. I will also be removing horses in the wild, as those can not be “owned” even if you put a code lock on one. This step is necessary because it’s been proved that having too many horses in one location can lag some players. Before I received my new computer, there was one base where my FPS would go into the single digits due to the number of horses. One more change I will be making is the disabling of the command to turn a player’s base into a raidable base out of fear of people griefing other players with it. Should a player wish to have their base converted to a raidable base, they will need to put in a support ticket to request it.

I believe that’s all the news for this wipe! Have fun!

Hello everyone and WELCOME to the mid-February 2023 wipe! Today we’ll be wiping the server at 2pm EDT. Included in this wipe is the Skill Tree XP. The BP’s won’t wipe until the first Thursday of March and that cycle will continue from now on.

The new map is a customized procedurally generated map, size 4500, with all of the standard monuments along with some custom ones. If you’ve been watching the map update preview channel in Discord, you’ve already seen some of those monuments! Our events will include some old favorites and some new ones. These events will be listed prior to the wipe. We may have some additional plugins added to the server.

I plan on creating a new player hub on the server this wipe. It will be a place relatively close to most spawns that will have everything a new player needs; workbenches, recyclers, furnaces, etc. It will also have a hotel where players can rent a room for 5 scrap per night. Each room will have a bed and a box to store personal items in. To renew your stay, you’ll go to the hotel clerk NPC in the lobby. If you outstay your welcome, any loot you’ve stored away in there will go bye-bye so make sure you pay for your room or get your stuff out.

There’s not much else going on for this wipe. The next Rust update isn’t for 2 more weeks so this should be a relatively easy one for us.

Hello everyone and welcome to the February 2023 Rusty Old Gamers news! This is the first time I’m using the website to publish our news. It’s a better platform for one way communications with the community, as it gives me more flexibility in my post than Discord does.

The next wipe/Rust update is Thursday February 2nd at 2pm EST. Facepunch will release a patch at that time. This patch is expected to be a big one, which introduces new features. It is very likely that some plugins will have some issues when the patch comes out. I will try to be on as much as possible after the wipe to keep up on any issues.

The map for this wipe is Gravis Island (https://lone.design/product/gravis-island/). This map was featured in the official Rust Community Blog and hosted on many official Rust servers. It’s on the small size, being only 3700km compared to the normal 4800 – 5000 km map we usually run. It has an assortment of custom monuments along with the standard Rust monuments.

I am not planning anything game changing this wipe. The events will be decided the day of the wipe. The only thing of significance that will change is the wiping of blue prints and skill tree XP. This wipe we’ll wipe blue prints on February 2nd and on February 16th, we’ll wipe Skill Tree XP. From that point forward, we’ll continue that alternating wipe schedule. This way, both will still wipe monthly, just at different times.

I am continuously working on updating the website, adding new guides for our plugin as time allows. If you have any plugin you’d specifically like to see featured, please send me a message. That’s it for now! See you on Gravis Island!