Category: Server Information

The American Old West server

Posted on by Zed

We run a unique Rust server based on the Frontier: American Old West map. This is a modified version of the map, with new monuments and edits to existing monuments. No other community runs this map 24/7 and none of the edits that I’ve made! You’ll find the classic monuments such as the old Outpost, Governor’s Mansion and the Trainyard. I’ve also sprinkled in a few classic monuments including the Missile Silo, Abandoned Military Base and The Dome! There’s also an all new town called Franktown.

You start off by spawning at one of the many train stations on the map. Don’t want to walk? Wait a few minutes and a train will be by! It will stop for a few moments at the station before continuing! When you die, you spawn at another train station.

Have you looted some fuel? Well, there’s plenty of work carts that spawn at the dead end side tracks! Jump in, drop in some fuel and away you will go! Just watch out for the train that goes around the tracks. The engineer doesn’t like his path to be blocked!

There’s lots of neat locations on the map, such as the ancient ruins pictured to the left. There’s two major NPC hubs: The Prison and the Bandit Checkpoint. At both locations you’ll find well armed NPC’s that not only fight you, but they also fight with the zombies!

Some of the vanilla monuments have been reworked for the old west!

Outpost

Trainyard

Junkyard

There are great adventures waiting for you on the RustyOG Old West server! The server wipes monthly and it has some differences from our main, biweekly server.

  • There is NO BASE DECAY except for twig. The 9 days for abandoned bases still applies.
  • Skill tree is replaced with the XPerience plugin
  • Instead of Epic Loot, we have Item Perks
  • There are no spawnable vehicles. If you want to travel, your choices are by foot, horse, hot air balloon or train!
  • There is no VIP on this server. Everyone gets access to certain perks that would be VIP on the main server including the base upgrade and 7 rows in your backpack
  • Instead of earning Economics coins, you earn Rewards Points (RP), which can be spent in the same fashion as the coins. They do not wipe when the server wipes.
  • The server wipes on the first Thursday of each month. BP’s and XPerience wipes on that day.

To join the server, search for RustyOG or open the F1 console and type connect oldwest.rustyog.net.

Comparing our Rust servers

Posted on by Zed

We have two different Rust servers. One is a Biweekly wipe server and the other is a Monthly wipe server. While sharing many of the same plugins, these two servers are different playstyles. I will attempt to give a good comparison of these servers below.

VIP/Economics/In-Game Shop

Our Biweekly server is set up to give VIP access. Anyone who donates gets VIP status and coins to use in the in-game shop. The coins never wipe or expire. Killing zombies, completing monuments, destroying Bradley, etc all gives economics coins. There are various other ways to get coins each month and even daily. These coins can be used in the in-game shop accessed with the /shop command. VIP gives certain perks to players. Those perks are explained in Discord.

The Monthly server has no VIP. Everyone is on even footing on the server. There’s no shop so the economics is player driven. If you want an item, you must loot it, craft it, buy it from a vendor/vending machine or from a player.

Spawnable Vehices

On the Biweekly server, using economics coins, you can buy vehicles that can be spawned. They can be spawned and despawned as needed and never use any fuel.

The Monthly server doesn’t have spawnable vehicles. To get around on the server, you’ll need to buy or build your vehicles.

Recycler Crafting

Players can craft recyclers on both servers. However, only VIP’s or members of the Steam group can craft recyclers on the Biweekly server. Anyone can craft a recycler (with the proper materials) on the Monthly server. The recycler can be placed anywhere normal base items can be placed.

Custom Helicopter Tiers/Personal Heli

Both servers allow players to call in a personal attack heli that they can fight. On the Biweekly server, this is done in the server shop. You can call in a heli using either economics or scrap. On the Monthly server, the heli is called in at the Air Traffic Controller NPC at the airfield and obviously you can only use scrap to buy it.

Instant Crafting

On the Biweekly, all crafting is instant. On the Monthly server, it’s vanilla crafting speed. The advantage to this on the Monthly server is that you can use the Skill Tree perks to alter the crafting speed.

Backpacks

Non-linked players on both servers only get 2 rows in their backpacks. Linked players get 5 rows in their backpacks on the Biweekly server and 7 rows on the Monthly server. VIP’s get 7 rows on the Biweekly server. Backpacks are wiped every map change.

Base Utility

The Base Utility plugin allows players to select a building skin for their base blocks, allows them to upgrade their base and repair their base, all from their TC. Only VIP players can do this on the Biweekly server. All linked players can do this on the Monthly server.

Maps and wipes

We wipe the Biweekly server on the first and third Thursdays of each month. When there are 5 Thursdays, we also wipe on the fifth Thursday. BP’s wipe on the first Thursday and Skill Tree wipes on the third Thursday. Nothing other than the map wipes on the fifth Thursday. BP’s and Skill tree are wiped on the first Thursday on the Monthly server.

The Biweekly server typically runs procedurally generated maps, most of the time with some customization. On occasion, a custom map will be run. The Monthly server runs smaller custom maps.

Conclusion

The Biweekly server is designed to be our flagship Rust server. It’s generally easier to play on and allows for faster progression and building. The Monthly server is configured to be a slower pace, closer to vanilla experience.