We Launched: Asgard Rust Is Open
Asgard Rust is open as of today, and we are glad to finally have other players on the map besides us. We built the server around one idea, which is that Rust is at its best when the fighting starts early and nobody spends an hour looking for neighbors.
A small map and a fast start
Asgard is a one grid 10x server with a trio max, hosted in Chicago. With one grid, the entire map sits inside a single small square, and that keeps other groups close to you from the moment you spawn. Gathering is 10x and furnaces smelt 30x faster. Almost every blueprint is unlocked from the start, and /bps lists the few that are still locked.
Our advice is to get a base down in your first ten minutes, because on a map this size somebody will find you soon after. The trio limit counts anyone you share a base or a raid with, online or offline, even if they never show up in your team menu. Trading with other groups is allowed, and all five rules are on the info page or behind /rules in game.
Wipes and the map vote
The map wipes every Monday and Friday at 6 PM Eastern, which is 3 PM Pacific. Force wipe lands on the first Thursday of each month at 2 PM Eastern alongside the Facepunch update, and blueprints reset with it. We skip the Friday wipe right after a force wipe, which means that map stays up until Monday. The next force wipe falls on Thursday, November 5.
About a day before each wipe we post four freshly generated maps in #map-vote on our Discord, and players react with a number from 1 to 4 to choose the next one. This is the part we like best, mostly because it is hard to complain about a map you helped choose.
Getting in
To join from the game, open Rust, click Play, switch to the Modded tab and search for ASGARD. The console works as well if you press F1 and type client.connect 91.229.114.137:28047. On the Session page Rust labels any console connection as "Development Server", and ours gets the same label. The server restarts once a day with warnings in chat beforehand, and there is no idle kick.
Free kits
Typing /kit opens the menu for the free kits, and every player can claim the same ones.
- Starter, once per wipe: 10,000 wood, 5,000 metal fragments, a tool cupboard, a bed, a metal door and a code lock.
- Bow, every 5 minutes for up to 30 claims a wipe: a hunting bow, 32 arrows and 10 pumpkins.
- Spawn, on every respawn: a metal hatchet and a pickaxe, plus a torch.
- Discord, once per wipe: a Thompson with 128 pistol ammo, roadsign armor with a coffee can helmet, 3 syringes, 10,000 wood, 10,000 stone, 1,000 metal fragments, 250 HQM, a tool cupboard, 2 metal doors, 3 code locks, a sleeping bag, a building plan and a hammer.
We think the Discord kit is the best one on the list, and you unlock it through the website. Go to asgardrust.gg, verify with Steam and then sign in with Discord, and if you are not in our Discord yet the site will ask you to join. After that, typing /discord in game hands you the kit. Linking also gives your Discord account the Verified role, which you need for the map vote.
Points that stay with you
You also earn 2 points for every 30 minutes you are online, and points never wipe. You spend them in /shop, which sells weapons and resources as well as the one-time kits. A regular player can save up for those kits without paying anything, and we wanted it that way from the start.
Claim /kit starter as soon as you spawn and get some walls up, then come find us in the Discord before the next map vote opens.