The Pickle Vanilla Monthly US server had wiped on 7th November 2024. I had laid a chain of sleeping bags across the map on wipe day, and expected them to have decayed, but somehow one survived until 10th November, at… Read More ›
Investigative Journalism
The Halloween Village church massacre
On Thursday 10th October 2024, several Government members on the Rustopia US Large server “took a bus” from the Gov village on the east coast “over to Reptar’s village” in the north-west “under the premise that we were weary travelers… Read More ›
The Legend of the Facepunch Stickers
Around 2012, Garry posted a series of photos to the Facepunch forum that showed stickers of the Facepunch logo that had been stuck to public signs. A capture of Google Street View on the outskirts of Birmingham showed that one… Read More ›
All Government codes leaked
As the Government’s codelocks use secure codes provided by a Discord command, the list of codes were leaked when the Discord server’s coding was made publicly available on github (in a file titled pin-frequency.js). An investigation published by the Rust… Read More ›
The Government activates RADAR
The August 2023 wipe saw the activation of large-scale intelligence gathering with the usage of Project R.A.D.A.R., detecting 2,394 bases across the map and collecting data on player locations and weapon usage. Every enemy of the Government had their structures… Read More ›
The Gas Station tunnel-dwellers
Government villagers often found the cave underneath the nearby Gas Station populated with mischievous creatures dressed in rags, but were careful not to underestimate these “rats” because they were often armed (albeit with primitive weaponry). Mysteriously, nobody spotted these tunnel-dwellers… Read More ›
Stolen electricity
A Rust update from 6th Dec 2018 announced that “electricity is here“, but this new invention was shockingly similar to a popular Garry’s Mod addon called Wiremod that had been around since 2007. Wiremod had been used in some Gmod… Read More ›
Extracting water from metal
A novel method of extracting water from metal involves crafting water guns, as they cost 125 metal fragments and are created half-loaded (at 500ml of a maximum capacity at 1 litre). The water guns can have their contents transferred into… Read More ›
Chopper crash destroys Freedom Farm
Drama kicked off as an attack helicopter was shot down on the night of 24th November. It had blown out the door of my neighbour’s house, before crashing next to Freedom Farm (an extension of my Blockhouse), so I had… Read More ›
Dome Village Overrun
The sounds of war could be heard beyond the mountains flanking the Dome landmark, as a large group of bandits invaded the area that housed many buildings surrounded by a wall. A brave Government journalist documenting the gunfire and explosions… Read More ›
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