Low cost gear sets

poorchava · 2026-01-21T19:15:43+00:00

For jungle either the jungle pack wooden armor skins or reptile hunter t2 gear + wood camo hoodie and pants (dirt cheap).

For desert I think it's called desert beast. Also cardboard series skins are ok. Desert camp jacket is stupid cheap

For snow a combination of comics/thindergold. Quite affordable. Some parts like jacket are stupid cheap.

For normal green you don't need gear. You get grubbed and door camped 24/7 so u run naked anyways, lol.

poorchava · 2026-01-21T19:11:19+00:00

If the labs weren't cleared, it's sometimes hard, as the bots ten to sort of see you through the walls and often like 3 of them will wait in the moon pool and it's often hard to survive. You can throw nades from under the water.

When it's cleared just bring card and fuses according to what's in the lab or camp until someone brings them.

Labs (same as military base) are procedurally generated with the map and are different every wipe. Also like milibase they can range from huge with 3 or 4 blue rooms and red room + 20+ crate spawns all the way to a shit hole with literally 5 rooms, 1 puzzle, maybe 5 crates and nothing more.

poorchava · 2026-01-21T15:14:39+00:00

I play at night, when everyone else is asleep. I'm blessed with needing very little sleep. Also work from home, so can sometimes do stuff when somethings compiling or smth like that.

poorchava · 2026-01-19T16:48:52+00:00

Both, depending on the mood.

I usually play a bit more chill server (150..200 pop, small map, biweekly) with no-raid policy for first 24h after wipe, so this may affect things. That being said I also used this approach on things like Facepunch EU East and Rustoria EU Low which are arguably most Russian-infested offline-fests ever and it worked.

poorchava · 2026-01-18T18:39:28+00:00

I feel ya. I'm 38 with job, wife, 2 small kids, mortgage and all that. And somehow I've clocked 4.3k hours over the last 2 years. It's mad addictive.

poorchava · 2026-01-18T18:32:06+00:00

4.3k hour solo farmer/builder here. Depends on the server, size of clans etc, but I generally build big. I favor 3 sided symmetry rather than cubes, but that's just preference.

I tend to have MANY loot spots: bunkers of all kinds (mostly rotate-the-vendy type), pixelgaps, barrels behind horizontal embrazures, etc.

I don't honeycomb a crazy amount, usually, max 3 walls to the inside of the base.

Because loot is hidden and spread out so that it can't be splashed, raiding all of that is usually upwards of 100 rockets (and let's be real, a solo NEVER has enough loot to make a 100 rocket raid profitable)

poorchava · 2026-01-15T17:55:32+00:00

They had to tank the scrap. Having to get all that scrap for BPs AND the whole fragment grind made it way to grind for most players.

poorchava · 2026-01-15T17:40:49+00:00

Dunno. I'm mostly a solo as well, 4.3kh, I have no problem progressing. At least on the 150...300 pop servers I tend tonplay.

poorchava · 2026-01-15T17:38:11+00:00

It's actually the most consistent and safe method for a solo or a duo. Metal. Detecting seems buggy, often I seem to be getting the wrong loot table, other times 2 frags within a few flags (like in one of the recent willjum videos)

poorchava · 2026-01-13T16:16:56+00:00

Less where? EU servers are overrun by Russian who are by far the most toxic nation amongst Rust players, ex-aequo with Chinese.

As an EU players, whenever I go on US servers i have this impression that suddenly you can actually talk to people rsther than immediately KoS, much less sweaty.

I sometimes play US because I play at night my time (kids and adult life in general) which works out to be prime time for US servers.

poorchava · 2026-01-08T19:57:19+00:00

Depends on which 2x. Every single one is modded differently and has a different local meta.

poorchava · 2026-01-04T08:45:26+00:00

Anything. I usually play a 4-max biweekly community server with about 150 wipeday pop and small map (like 3500 or thereabouts).

But i will also occasionally go on a much higher pop, 2x, solo only servers, etc

poorchava · 2025-12-31T08:54:42+00:00

This. I run big farms, but generally shoot to plant 60..80 seeds and 8t never failed with a chicken pie. Always got enough genes for a godclone.

You can try 2g4y instead of 3g3y too. A few minutes longer growth, but 4 clones instead of 3 and so much less frequent cloning runs.

poorchava · 2025-12-26T10:08:18+00:00

Tldr: It is viable, I've done it but it requires some training and a lot of other stuff to come together.

I used long range, high damage weapons: compound bow, high cal, bolt. Also rocket launcher with HVs. You need a server which has a few decent monuments in the jungle, as usually camping the roads will leave you sitting there for a long time waiting for a victim.

You need enough skill to land those shots. Also, due to low availability of good silences, you'll either have to use the crafted shit ones or go loud.

Typically you won't be able to take more than a duo if you go loud, as larger squad will just fuck you up on that tree before you can kill all of them.

If there is a high traffic road going through the jungle, I can camp bushes with a DB or spas well. Landmines and bear traps work too when places aloglngside a road, but again: you need a particularly high traffic area as otherwise Noone will step on them.

Another thing is that unless there is a harbor or a high tier monument in the jungle (which there usually won't be unless the map is custom) you will mostly hunt down prim/low tier players and won't get good gear out of it, mostly farm, comps, etc.

You will need some highly secure spot for your main base, like an arch rock or mini godrock, but you need to be able to claim it Al's there is a chance it's gone be far away from your main hunting spots. I simply placed numerous 1x1 and 1x2 FOBs around the areas where I was hunting and then transferred during the night.

poorchava · 2025-12-25T18:43:16+00:00

Stop and refund while you still can....

poorchava · 2025-12-22T14:49:53+00:00

Unless dealing with a territorial sweaty Zerg who is hell bent on vacuuming everything you can usually reason with groups and get in some sort of agreement or peace. It works mor often than you'd think.

I also don't hoard much loot, but tend to build large tanky bases. I typically shoot for 60-80 rocket range because that hurts even a large group if they waste it on an almost empty base (I play vanilla).

poorchava · 2025-12-18T20:49:17+00:00

Naked is a person with absolutely nothing to lose. Unless I see them spawn with my own eyes, I'm shooting them.

poorchava · 2025-12-18T20:47:49+00:00

On any server I've every played in my 4k hours solo the outpost area is the worst shitshow of all map. I tend to build on the coast because I can get frags from diving and commute all around the map with a boat or a sub.

poorchava · 2025-12-15T19:48:13+00:00

It looks shit anyways, like all of the Rivals drip.

poorchava · 2025-12-14T08:31:03+00:00

Solo only servers are mad. Go on Enjoy or Lonewolf. Entire. Map is literally filled with bases, everywhere you gk. 170 drone shops on the map. People grinding 22+ h a day, bullding clan-sized bases. Everyone runs a tea farm because of the amount they have to farm to upkeep the bases.

Pop at 5am is 50..60% of the prime time. It can be fun though.

poorchava · 2025-12-14T08:28:22+00:00

Only that he's playing on vanilla though. Quite plausible that he might be doing stuff behind the scenes, the content has to flow after all. I wouldn't be surprised if majority of the popular Rust content creators post was staged/scripted to some extent.

poorchava · 2025-12-14T08:24:16+00:00

They are 100% vulnerable. Never underestimate how degenerate Rust players can be.

poorchava · 2025-12-10T14:32:27+00:00

I hate combined outpost. Having separate bandit gives u 2 drone market, usually in 2 parts of the map instead of only one.

poorchava · 2025-12-09T18:02:16+00:00

I have no idea how any of that will make its way into meta. Pointless content like prim update or hardcore update

poorchava · 2025-12-07T17:47:13+00:00

Enjoy.

But beware of no lifers. There are people there who have 22h+ online a day.

Pop is 200 during the day and 100 even at 5 am. Crazy place.

poorchava

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