In the meantime (Rust)
Before I start the challenge proper I’ve been slowly getting into my library. I started playing Rust and Planet Base but in this Post I will discuss Rust.
Rust is an online survivial/building game that’s been in Alpha for a long time. The general premise of the game is you spawn naked with a rock and a torch, you need to mine resources and build a base/tools/weapons on a server with other players, most will murder you on sight.
I play on a small community server and overall it’s been a mixed bag between enjoying the game and having to deal with people breaking into my base and stealing my stuff or killing me and stealing my stuff. There’s a lot of killing and stealing, so much.
The crafting system is clever and fairly intuitive, movement is good and the constant updates are keeping the game on an upward trajectory of improvement. The developers push out updates every two weeks and so every other Thursday all the non-modded servers are wiped. I’m still 50/50 on that because on one hand it’s cool because everyone gets to start over every two weeks, but all my progress gets wiped and I have to start from scratch. I’m conflicted.
This is my current base, it’s pretty great.
BEHOLD! PENIS HOUSE!
Shockingly enough I’ve got more than 10 minutes in the game.
The people on the server are nice, the only griefers I seem to run into are outsiders, today was the worst experience by far. Someone wanted a part that I happened to have a spare of. Unfortunately they were located on the exact opposite side of the massive map. It must have taken me 10 minutes to get over there, I had no guarantee that they weren’t going to murder me on site either, I was doing this all in good faith. I finally found the place and gave the part to the guy, he gave me some items in exchange and we went our separate ways. I made it probably 10 feet our of the building and an outsider that had been killing other regulars opened fire and killed us both. I lost all my gear, my rifle, my clothes, everything on my person. I re-spawned back in my base and was super pissed. It’s ok, it will all get wiped and I’ll start over.
I will probably keep playing it because it’s got a nice mix of exploration/building and the people on the server are pretty good fun to talk to.
*I need to figure out my OBS setup so I can start recording but I’m hoping to start this project in earnest in the next week or two. *