Many of you think that you're prepared for survival games after having binged The Hunger Games on Netflix or surviving a few rounds of battle royale, maybe even winning it. However, in Rust, no one is ever truly prepared, especially when you don't expect to wake up nude on a beach just to encounter some butt-naked in-game yahoos imitating religious extremists and stoning to death some newbies on a lovely beach.

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Welcome to Rust. For the record, you can join that made up stone age religion to improve your chances of surviving or just take your chances with more sane people. Either way, you'll be making many mistakes along the way. Even the best of us commit some of these most glaring oversights. It's good to be aware of them so you can punish yourself accordingly. It's still a fun game, don't worry.

10 Trusting Someone Completely

Forget whatever positive social conventions you learned in real-life or in other multiplayer games, Rust is brutal, that's why it lacks another letter "t" at the beginning. That's the word you should never do in Rust. We all learned as children not to trust any stranger offering any candy.

So, apply that in this game. Anyone who's better geared than you and offers to team up with promises of riches tends to have an ulterior motive or just wants to grief you. No ethics, rules, or laws exist in this game, so go be Machiavellian or be a social Darwinist as much as you like.

9 Playing Solo Too Much

This might sound a bit contradictory as not playing solo requires having a good group of people to play with whom you trust to a certain degree but it's always good to have helping hands. It's the building and advancing to different stages of development (stone, wood, metal) in Rust that's daunting. Having extra people to help you will lessen the grind and of course, they can watch your back.

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If possible, play with your real-life friends or siblings to reduce your chance of getting betrayed by your allies. Playing solo in Rust is usually reserved for the best veterans who know how the game like the back of their hands. Doing it as someone who's new or only has several dozens of hours of game time is bound to end in disaster and frustration.

8 Not Studying The Building Mechanics

Speaking of disasters, not being an informed in-game architect and engineer in Rust is welcoming defeat and catastrophe at your doorstep. It can also lead to plenty of wasted resources such as walls being built too high and in the wrong orientation.

That happens more often than usual too. You will need to note that each building block in Rust has a soft and hard side. The hard side is the one you want at the exterior of all your structures because otherwise, any intruder can chip away at it with hatchets or even pickaxes.

7 Overconfidence & Optimistic Expectations

So you finally built yourself a formidable digital fortress with all the treasure inside and you expect to live like a king with your best bud in it. Sadly, there's no such thing as comfort in Rust. If someone sees that you're doing better than they are, you're automatically placed in their crosshairs.

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Always expect that you will get raided, killed, or betrayed in Rust. Just because you have weapons you luckily snagged off from a helicopter doesn't mean you can't lose your place at the top of the food chain. This is probably where the toxicity and anger of some players come from, especially when their expectations aren't met.

6 Not Using A Mic

In Rust, you have to use any tool at your disposal in order to survive and that includes communication. Some are even so good at it, they can weaponize their words. In order to do this better, you can't just rely on the slowness of text chat.

Communicating via voice chat does wonders whether you're negotiating for your life or snooping out some potential backstabbers. Another obvious advantage is how it can make coordinated assaults more successful. That means having a microphone. It also helps you humanize yourself better so players see you less as a target and more as another person behind that ugly in-game character.

5 Keeping All The Loot In The Same Place

Laziness is also another common problem in Rust's playerbase though with how grindy it is, that can probably be forgiven. Some are too lazy to make their own stuff so they take the hard work of others. Now, if that treasure or loot happens to be stored in one location, there goes your status.

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Sure, it's easy to stock all your prized collections and valuable resources in one place, but it's also easier for others to steal them all in one swipe. Making multiple storage locations does warrant more resources like vehicles and other bases but you'll be thankful in the end when someone enacts upon their desire to steal what's yours.

4 Prioritizing Weapons Over Medkits

Once you get to see what Rust is offering in the weapons department, it's easy to get carried away with making that AK a crafting goal. Still, there's this thing called the hierarchy of needs and guns are not exactly a good priority. After all, Rust is a survival game, and preserving your life is always the primary goal. When it comes to that, medkits are the best.

This is not the case for a lot of players as they tend to focus on carrying big sticks and bigger boomsticks that they neglect their safety and health. The result is that other players who come to fights prepared with medkits get to enjoy the fruits of reckless gunsmithing.

3 Making Keys For Key Locks

There are times when storing all your goods in one spot has to happen whether out of urgency or circumstance. When that happens, having a Key Lock sounds like a good option until someone else takes your keys from your lead-ridden corpse.

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By then, they'll have access to everything in your locked building. That's why code locks are much better. If you must use a Key Lock though, just don't craft a key so that only you get access to the locked building.

2 Using Torches At Night

When starting out in Rust and you're thrust smack dab in the middle of the night with no food, water, nor clothing, the warmth and safety provided by fire seems like salvation. It is anything but. Because light attracts all manners of creatures, including griefers.

They will easily chase or even bully anyone who brandishes a torchlight. In many instances, lighting up a torch so you can see better at night in Rust is one good way to get killed fast as you're practically announcing where you are to the whole world. Just do it the old-fashioned way like our ancestors did and squint.

1 Picking Fights Too Early

One mistake that intermediate or newbie players of Rust make is that they treat it like an action shooter game. Getting your first Thompson can make you feel invincible, sure, but chances are, you're not that good and someone else is better-equipped.

Picking fights and raiding bases while poorly equipped is how mid-game players lose their progress half the time. At best, you should just use your weapons defensively and only seek out out fights if you want to practice with the weapons.

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