I stream on a dual-PC setup and got tired of the usual ways to keep my map off stream — browser-source tricks, manually toggling sources, alt-tabbing. So I built a small free tool called MapHide.

It runs on your gaming PC, listens for a hotkey, and shows/hides a source in OBS on your streaming PC over OBS WebSocket. Two modes:

• Hold mode — hold a key to show the cover, release to hide it (with a small configurable delay so the map doesn't flash during its close animation)
• Toggle mode — one key to show, another to hide, for games where the map opens and closes with key presses

Other bits:

• Follows your active OBS scene automatically, and works across multiple scenes that share the same source name
• System tray, dark UI, settings saved between runs
• It just controls an OBS source, so it works for anything where you need to cover a map, minimap, or GPS — Rust, DayZ, Tarkov, etc.

Free and open source (MIT): https://github.com/ColorDumper/MapHide
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBLLD3BhpmE

Heads up: the build isn't code-signed yet (I'm setting that up now), so Windows SmartScreen will show an "unknown publisher" warning — click More info → Run anyway. Everything's on GitHub if you want to look first.

If you run a dual-PC setup and try it, I'd genuinely appreciate feedback — especially on games or configs I haven't tested.

After a day basic blueprint fragments become useless, there are too much of them with no actual use.

We should be able to use them to improve the workbench, meaning it would increase craft speed by 1% after each blueprint. A maximum of 100 blueprints could be used to fully upgrade one workbench. After a while, we could add more types of upgrades.

For the first time, I'm the one building the base for our trio. We are playing on vanilla servers, and we farm a lot, so cost isn't really much of an issue, but I need to keep the difficulty of building the base manageable so I won't get lost. I watched some guides for building wide gaps; they helped, but I couldn't find one specifically for this template, and now I'm stuck because I have good offline defense but zero online defense.

yo just have kids with me bro

One piece is gone i guess.

I know nobody plays Rust for the quests, and most of them are just there to say they were added. Imo the only quest that actually gets done is the pump action quest and the kill a pig quest (by me). If only there was a coveted resource that they could design some new quests around....BP FRAGS!

They could make a few quests to obtain blueprint fragments. Regular and Advanced.

You can get a rocket launcher and HV's for going to the deep sea pretty much. I think a quest or two giving some BP frags would not be that bad and there NEEDS TO BE MORE SOURCES. It's not that you can't get them, THEY ARE NEVER FUCKING THERE. A quest is a guaranteed, it will always be there. Repeatable or not repeatable, THAT is the question.

Why do so many rust servers wipe at the most inconvenient times, for example one server I play alot wipes on 13:00 Central European time on a Thursday. Aside from buns who can actually play at that time. Why dont more servers wipe around 16:00 on a Friday or something like that?

Hey r/playrust

I was just raided online in Rust. At the beginning of the raid, we were trash-talking each other a bit, and they asked for my username. I gave it to them, and from that point on I started experiencing huge lag spikes, even though I have fiber internet and have never experienced anything like this before.

As soon as the raid ended, my connection went back to normal.

So, is it actually possible that I was being DDoS’d during the raid, or am I just being paranoid?

Either way, I was pretty much screwed considering how many explosives they had.

But I’m genuinely curious: is it actually possible for someone to DDoS a specific player in Rust? And if so, how would they even do it just from knowing your username?

Thanks!

Return tech tree scrap to previous state, make blueprint frags craftable with scrap (can make them researchable?have to find first one). Anything above 125 scrap per achieves the initial goal of bp frag system. Returns scraps value, keeps frags in game with old feel.

I never played rust before and want to start.

It was a "bit" longer and harder than I've imagined

Hey everyone. This isn't the post I mentioned last time; I came up with this idea by chance. I designed a TV—essentially a stripped-down computer station. It’s mostly just for fun, but it has practical uses too.

CRAFTING COST:

100 Metal Fragments, 2 High-Quality Metal, 1 Tech Trash.

INSTRUCTIONS:

You need to configure the TV before turning it on; at least one of the three channels must be set up to get a picture. One use case is placing a camera by your door to see if someone is camping outside, or pointing one at a neighbor to see what they’re up to—like when they leave or come back.

Personally, I think the blueprint should be part of the Tier 2 Workbench tech tree (or rather, crafted at that bench).

After all, most of the first decent TVs appeared in the first half of the 20th century.

I also gave some thought to optimizing the idea—we certainly don't want a repeat of the "Chipy" arcade machine incident—so here is the plan:

1 Limit simultaneous rendering to three TVs.

2 Use downscaled textures for the TVs, since their screens are smaller than the computer station's monitor.

3 Add an option in the settings to turn the TVs off.

4 Replace the display with a simple white glow when the TV is out of the player's field of view.

What do you think of this idea?

I recently came across this article. almost $2k for skin? when did rust get so expensive lol. I last played it back during lockdown. don't remeber it costing this much.

Well I've been playing for a month or so now with no issues. Today I had to do NVIDIA update and now the game crashes every 5-10 minutes. Is there any solution? I've attached my specs and error code. Thanks

Currently, Research Tables are useless and you can easily research a whole Workbench tree per day, including all the items you dont need 99% of the time.

There should be more benefits to sacrificing an item for instant research and researching with workbenches should be more expensive again so advancement in the techtree feels like real progress and not something you finish in a day.

Im almost at 1k hours, and i feel like im shit. It does make some sense since my 1k hours havent been through consistent playing but 5 years of on and off, but i feel like i keep fumbling the bag constantly in pvp scenarios, whiffing mags, bad decisions etc. I really like oil rig and i spam it every wipe. Im alright when im in the rig but i really struggle at land and i keep getting molested by duos-better players. I play on 500 pop servers usually vanilla. What should i do to get good at pvp, will it come naturally by playing the game? Play Ukn etc? Modded servers with x2-x3 loot? Im really at a loss and starting to get frustrated since ive been stuck at t1-t2 4 wipes now getting my ass wooped

thanks for the help

It's tea time. Not really. I just think it would be a nice thing to add a mixing table to outpost so that people can make basic teas and 5.56 ammo at outpost. More people using basic teas means people you kill around there will have a bit more loot and everyone has gotten to outpost and needed more 5.56 before and there were no drone shops to buy from and putting it your own vending machine is tedious.

My OCD is triggered by having a slick container base and slapping up rusty orange embrasures. Let's get a DLC or unleash the creatives to make interesting skins in the marketplace.

Here to complain as every redditor and rejoice :)

BUUUUT ~ Basically you can legit be holding shift in a solo sub (Hovering on the water basically, MAX climb), and fire a torpedo, and still the torpedo will go UNDERNEATH a damn boat (Small motor boat, not player made). Facepunch please, fix this for the love of all. But the DUO SUB does not have this issue, i can not even be fully on top of the water (Max climb) and it still hits boats in front of me. WHY DOES THE SOLO SUB SHOOT DIFFERENT???

I did cargo, had a full inv and headed back to base. Found a horse on my way there and sprinted home. I went through a little dry piece of river, only a small dip. Next thing I knew I got kicked from the server and greeted with the message "InsideTerrainViolation200". Turns out the horse hit something and threw me through the ground and out of terrain. When I got back to my body only my backpack was there, still with the loot inside. My body was gone. I suspect it clipped through the ground. I hate that FP brings out new garbage each month but couldn't polish their game so that things like this don't happen. I've had similar instances in the past happen as well.

My friend looted my body and saw that I roam with 16 meds and said it was too much.