The sole purpose in Rust is to survive — Overcome struggles such as hunger, thirst and cold. Construct a fire. Construct a shelter. Kill animals. Guard yourself from different players.

Rust Controls & Hotkeys

The controls listed below are the default controls that may be changed by the user.

• Up W
• Left A
• Down S
• Right D
• Jump Space
• Duck LeftControl
• Sprint LeftShift
• Fire LMB
• AltFire RMB
• Reload R
• Use E
• Inventory Tab
• Flashlight F
• Laser G
• Voice V
• Chat Return/T

Chat in Rust

The chat window may be opened using either Input or T, and affirming text from the window (i.e. sending what you type) is done using Enter.

There are several special commands which may be used via the chat window, each requiring a forward slash (/) before each word.

• /msg (Name) (Message) – Will send a message to a single player. This shows up as green text in your chat window.
• /me – Places a server wide message in purple, allowing your text to stand out.
• /do – reclock Reclock will resync your client clock to that of the server, and can be used to correct entity-lag issues.
• /do – unstick Respawns your character in a random location in case you get stuck in the terrain.

Health

Health indicates the player’s overall health, and can be depleted via Radiation, Hunger, and taking damage. A large amount of this damage can be reduced by wearing armor.

Calories

Calories are the number units representing your hunger level. When your hunger dips below 400, you will continually take damage.

Radiation

Radiation is your dose of rads the body currently has. This can be reduced naturally over time, by ingesting Cooked Chicken Breast, or by using Anti-Radiation Pills.

When you get to a level of Rads over 500, then you will receive radiation poisoning, a condition which will slowly kill you and deplete your hunger.

Note: The controllers used to perform Rust are a combination of keyboard keys, both the mouse and mouse switches.

All keys may be re-assigned employing the Controls tab located in the Options tab on the main menu of this match. From there you can change the key bindings