Rust Tips For Beginners: 9 Strategies To Help Survive The First Few Nights

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When venturing into any new survival-crafting game, players will need as many tips as possible to survive their first night, let alone any additional time spent in the wilderness. Rust is one such game that is particularly brutal on newcomers, as there's not an abundance of helpful hints waiting for players when they step into a server. While some other players on a specific server could be willing to lend a helping hand, more often than not those players will be preying on newcomers for an easy kill. If you want to enjoy your first few hours in Rust, then you've come to the right place. We've compiled a list of beginner tips to get you off on the right foot when beginning this popular, yet demanding survival title.

Rust has been around since 2013 on PC but recently came to last- and current-gen consoles. Whether you're a player getting into the well-established PC scene or a newcomer on the console side of things, we have you covered with some essential tips to survive your first few days and nights.

For the most part, Rust operates on an online multiplayer-only basis. While players can manipulate the files to make their own private server and play solo or offline, a majority of players won't venture into that rabbit hole. So, for most players, choosing a server will be one of the first things to do when starting up Rust for the first time. There are a few different kinds of servers in Rust, which are displayed on the lefthand side of the server list. There are Official, Community, and Modded servers, all of which have their benefits and detriments.

The Official list might be where players initially want to search, but this can be a mistake. Since these servers have been around for so long, many of them are chock-full