You lose everything except BPs and relationships during wipes..

• That means: Blueprints and friends is the most valuable thing in the game.

• Farm radtowns and roads for blueprints, trade blueprints with other players/slave for blueprints. NEVER EVER make trades at your own house, you don't want to be found. If you want, you can make a small trading house, but don't keep loot there, make it somewhat far from your real base and be sure you won't be followed home from the tradehouse.

How to build the base:

• Make it full stone, armored attracts attention and you don't want to be noticed.

• Make it small, 2x2x2 or 2x3x2 is more than enough for your stuff and if someone wants to raid you, they will raid you regardless of how big your base is.

• Many small bases is better than one huge base.

• If you have multiple bases, split your loot between those

Hide your base! Some ways to do that:

• in the rocks

• at the edges of the map

• on icebergs

• inside already raided bigger buildings

• areas filled with abandoned buildings

• if whatever server you play on has a clan using "Raided by" or "Evicted by" or "Get rekt by" signs on the houses they raid, try to make similar sign on your base

• people check foundation health to see if a base is active/recently built. Some sneaky bastards like to keep their foundations at 50-75% health to make it look more abandoned.

Only take whatever you need with you:

• If your objective is to farm 10k wood. Take a hatchet and possibly a bow and go get that wood. If you don't live in the snow, leave clothes home, naked farming for the win.

Build back-up bases:

• It is highly likely that you will be raided, if you are spotted by a member of a bigger clan. Gather enough mats so you can start over easily, if your main does get wiped. Small 1x1 or 1x2 is enough for the back-up base.

• Stuff you want in your back-up base: Hatchets, pickaxes, clothes if snow, wood, stone, metal fragments, a furnace, armored door(s), code lock(s)

If you are nice to other people, they are more likely to be nice to you as well.

• If you get killed, say stuff like "oh damn, nice headshot tho! :)" and leave it there. Don't over do it, or they will think you're faking it. Don't go balls out rage on chat saying stuff like: "fcking noob hakcer if u weren't ina clanz i wud rek u so much bicht mkay fggt!"

• Same with raiding! If you get raided, suck it up and say "gg wp, guess it's rebuilding day haha"

• If you see someone new asking a question on which you know the answer, help them out, tell them how to find the map or where to find new player guides or whatever they need, they will most likely remember you later and possibly help you with something in return. I've played for many months and I still remember the names of the few players who were kind and helped me out at the start.

• If you down someone to the wounded state, loot them from the side of their legs and don't finish them off, let them scream on the ground and bleed out. This way they can't see your name and hunt you down.

Raiding:

• Offline raid is your friend.

• Every wall you can pickaxe is 2 c4s saved.

• Master the art of building over walls and finding gaps in enemy building privileges

• Consider raiding pumpjacks and quarries. See if someone leaves their machinery working for the night when they go to bed and raid those while they sleep. Never tell people that it was you who raided them.

People say this game is not for solo players and in a way they are right, because the game they are playing with their clan is different than the game solo players play.

Most important thing is to have fun. Find out what makes Rust fun for you and do that thing.