🪓 How to Survive Rust Without Crying (Too Much)

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Rust isn’t a survival game.
It’s a psychological experiment where you spawn naked, punch a tree, and get shot by a guy named "LilToiletGod" riding a horse with an AK.

This guide will help you survive your first 24 hours... maybe.

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🏝️ Step 1: Accept That You Are Meat

- You are not the main character.
- You are a naked guy with a rock.
- You are loot. People will try to convert you into it.
- Accept this, and you will suffer slightly less.

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🪨 Step 2: Rock Things Until You Don’t Have To

Your rock is your friend.
Use it to gather:

- Wood (for poor people)
- Stone (for less-poor people)
- Other players’ skulls (advanced)

💡 Pro Tip: Hitting shiny spots = faster. Hitting other players = satisfying.

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🏠 Step 3: Build a Base, Poorly

• Slap down a sleeping bag and a triangle foundation.
  
• Make a wooden door. Immediately get door camped.
  
• Forget to build a Tool Cupboard. Regret everything.
  
• Finally get a lock on your box — realize you forgot to place the box.

🎉 Congratulations! You now live in a poorly-designed shoebox full of beans.

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🔫 Step 4: Acquire Violence

Weapons are important. They let you fail in new and exciting ways.

Early Game Arsenal:

- Spear: Big stick. Good for poking feelings.
- Bow: The "I miss 5 shots and die" starter pack.
- DB (Double Barrel): The shotgun of gods and goblins.

📢 “Bow headshots make you feel alive. Until you get MP5’d 3 seconds later.”

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🔁 Step 5: The Rust Life Cycle

1. Spawn
2. Get rock
3. Die to boar
4. Respawn
5. Kill boar
6. Die to guy with Crossbow
7. Respawn
8. Bow someone
9. Get raided
10. Repeat forever

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🧠 Pro Gamer Tips

- Always wear a burlap sack. It increases accuracy by 0%.
- If someone says “friendly,” they are not.
- Build near Outpost until you understand pain.
- Never trust a guy playing guitar.

“Rust isn’t about winning. It’s about losing slightly less than the next guy.”

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❤️ Final Words

If you’re still here: congrats. You might be insane enough to enjoy Rust.
You’ll be betrayed, door-camped, offline raided, and killed by a horse.

But maybe, just maybe… you’ll find a teammate who doesn’t shoot you “by accident.”

Now go. Touch the rock. Become the pain.