If something here is unclear, ask before you do it. These are also in game: type /rules.
Aimbot, ESP, wallhacks, radar, or anything that shows you what the game does not. No scripts or macros, recoil scripts included.
Permanent ban
Exploiting a bug for advantage is treated as cheating. Finding one and reporting it is not.
Permanent ban · reports welcome
Do not come back on another account, and do not play with somebody who has. Knowingly teaming with a cheater removes the team.
Permanent ban, all accounts
Sharing an account with somebody who cheats on it makes the account responsible for what happened on it.
On the 2× Monthly · No Offlines, raiding is permitted only during a fixed daily window. Outside it the server refuses raid damage against other players' bases. Type /raid in game for the live status and the exact hours.
Using lag machines or exploits to get into a base is a ban.
Working around the window is a ban
Players cannot damage each other outside a PVP zone. Admins open those zones for events.
Admins will not reverse a raid or return your loot.
You and anyone on your cupboard can remodel or demolish your own base at any hour, as normal.
Rockets, C4, satchels and explosive ammo are not sold in any shop, in either currency, at any price, and appear in no purchasable kit.
Guns and armour are sold, in kits.
Rust enforces each server's team limit. Allies count: grouping beyond your server's cap in a fight, or splitting into "separate" teams that fight together, is the same offence as breaking the limit outright.
Removal of the excess, then bans for repeats
Building near a monument is fine. Walling it so nobody else can use it is not, and neither is blocking a road or another team's only route in and out.
Mass sign spam, absurd entity counts, or anything built to hurt server performance. Excessive builds may be removed without notice.
Stacking external wall layers beyond three is not allowed. Compounds are fine; mazes designed to be unraidable are not.
Racism, slurs and targeted harassment are bannable. Threats of real-world harm, doxxing or DDoS are permanent and reported onward.
Trash talk is allowed.
Mute, then ban
If you think somebody is cheating, report it with evidence rather than calling it out in chat.
Do not promote other servers, Discords or services in chat.
Do not buy or sell in-game items, accounts or services for real money. The official store is the only place money changes hands, and anything bought elsewhere is not protected.
Play favourites, interfere in fights, spawn items, restore lost loot, refund raids, or compensate for decay, deaths or bad luck. Admins who play do so as ordinary players.
Act on cheating, ban evasion, chat abuse, monument blocking, lag machines, raid exploits and raid-window circumvention. If a server fault costs you something, tell us.
Message an admin in game, or email rustyscapeserver@gmail.com. Send the offender's name, roughly when it happened, and a clip or screenshot if you have one. Reports without evidence are logged, but there is usually nothing we can act on.
Email rustyscapeserver@gmail.com with your Steam profile link. Appeals are read and answered case by case. Be straight about what happened; we can see the logs. Staff decisions are final.
These rules can change. The version in game under /rules is always current.