
Rust Electricity & Wiring Guide: Power Your Base
A beginner's guide to Rust electricity — generating power with batteries, wind turbines and solar, wiring components, and building auto-turret and trap circuits.

A beginner's guide to Rust electricity — generating power with batteries, wind turbines and solar, wiring components, and building auto-turret and trap circuits.

Boost your FPS and win more fights in Rust — the graphics settings that matter, FOV and sensitivity, and the tweaks that give a competitive edge without a new PC.

How to control recoil in Rust — how spray patterns work, the AK and LR-300 patterns, sensitivity and DPI tips, and how to practise until your spray is muscle memory.

How to farm sulfur and craft gunpowder in Rust — sulfur nodes and quarries, smelting, the gunpowder recipe, and how much you need for C4, rockets and ammo.

How smelting works in Rust — furnaces vs large furnace, wood fuel and charcoal, smelting ore into metal and HQM, and how to refine low grade fuel.

A guide to Rust monuments — the major loot locations, the green/blue/red keycard tiers, fuses and puzzles, and which monuments are worth the risk.

How decay and upkeep work in Rust — decay times by building tier, how the tool cupboard upkeep cost works, and how to stop your base rotting while you're offline.

How Rust map size and seeds work — what world size to pick for your player count, how seeds change the map, and how to set both in server.cfg.

How much boom does it take to raid a Rust base? Raid costs by wall tier, C4 vs rockets vs satchels, soft side vs hard side, and a free raid calculator for exact numbers.

The best Rust base designs for solos, duos and clans in 2026 — build principles, rough costs, the WB2 mortar meta, and when to upgrade.

The complete, categorised list of Rust admin and console commands — moderation, server settings, spawning and teleport — plus how to run them via F1 console and RCON.

The next Rust force wipe is Thursday, July 2, 2026. Full 2026 Rust wipe schedule, force wipe vs blueprint wipe, exact times, and how to set your own wipe schedule.