This is the process to have perfect Procedural Map with RustEdit: these are not the steps in the usual way. This process can not be applied to anyother map engine like rust.io, because these systems do not let you decide what you want from your map.

The Procedural Map is a map that is auto-generated based on specific elements, depending on your own settings or completely random. The map then contains the default monuments and prefabs that the Rust Game offers. You can also edit that Procedural Map, but then you are not listed in the Community list anymore, but in the Modded section.

• 1- generate the map Terrain
• 2- apply Biome, replace layers with the needed one.. ex: replace arctic with temperate will avoid heat changes
• 3- apply Topology so the engine knows where we at… it will generate proper identification of elements like beach, river, lake, etc
• 4- apply Splat, so we see where we go
• 5- apply Rivers and Caves so they are freely installed randomly on the map – only if required
• 6- apply Ring Road, so it uses the largest part of the terrain to be the largest possible. If you want the smallest Ring Road possible, wait until you put the monuments, before the Roads.
• 7- Apply all the monuments you wish. You can delete them once you applied all the layers of the map, so the roads look useful.
• 8- Apply the Roads *(+Spawn Decor)
• 9- Apply the Road Monuments
• 10- Apply the Rocks at the end, or you will have rocks anywhere so you could not install anything without deleting thousands. Rocks will be put randomly based on % of uncovered terrain.

now your map is Perfect on the Procedural way.

The « Barren » version of the Auto-Generated Maps is not supported by RustEdit and will be deprecated by Facepunch in the next updates. You have to auto-generate it on your own server. In the near future, the Barren mode will be gone for good, as it’s only a map with 20% of resources compared to the Procedural that is 100% of the resources by default. Any Map Designer can change that by editing the Biome and Splat of any map, but they are rare to do so…

PS: the featured image was taken freely on google… nothing related to me, but a good example of RustEdit generated map…

I name it « Rustic Dementia » because it’s a map that only has Rustic monuments, like the barns and the fishing villages.  No concrete or metal based monuments.

Cobalt cleaned the place of all building containing nocive metals and rads.  The company discovered soon after the Savas Project that all buildings constructed in the Cobalt era were made with concrete, which accumulated radiation and was impossible to treat. And since some buildings on the Islands were with radiation and made human life impossible, they decided to start over in an environment where this threat was non-existent.

The goal of this project not being to kill humans but to find them an environment where they could rebuild a new kind of society, it was necessary to bet on the human and not on the dangers to improve their lot.  So they made a deal with the former « Bandits », which were civilian scientists who revolted against Cobalt, and they decided to start this project in a « bandit-way ».

They still send scientists to check all the remains roadside loots, to see if they radiate, and to check if the population is using the resources the right way.  Remember, it’s for the Project Steep, they need people who can manage teamwork to survive.

Images are to be posted tomorrow after some testings, and a video would be great, if you know someone who is great at videos in Rust.

There was a planned event for last weekend’s Halloween day.  But since the family moved to another region, I was unavailable for managing it, and we decided to let it go to only the release of the map on our general server.

so the [EXPOSED] Nightmare in the Bayou event was a success… a 5 days of new visitors on the server, with more than 45 new players, on a « empty » server is good… among more than 12000 empty servers around the planet!

The map is complete custom, with a never seen mood… a 6000 large map, with a canal for the cargo ship, and a « bayou-like » terrain.  Because yes, it is based on the Bayou in New-Orleans… low profile, mud and swamp… and for halloween we see zombies, scarecrows and murderers.  Everything is vanilla, no plugin.

And a gift from one of the best Monument designer in Rust, we had the Halloween Bayou house from Niko as our main attraction, in the center of the map…

In New Orleans, you often see shelters and ruins, and trailers in the middle of nowhere… How fun, Rust is doing it for us!

The bayou is also filled with villages and houses that integrate perfectly with the decor… as you can see, we have our own versions as above…

And there are pirates in the bayou… they hide everything of value in their boats… but we found them !

Dafuk with snow in New Orleans? Actually this is a hidden compound that a mad scientist wants to keep secret, so he surrounded his factory with a weather controled environment for the lone walkers will not trespass… but are we?

WHAT?  the Maunsell Forts in the middle of nowhere? Is this map fucked up or what? … remember that the Bayou is in the region where everything is possible.  like for the Eiffel Tower in Vegas, the New Orleans’ version of the famous fortified marine towers of the UK is now!

And the mood… for the Halloween Event, we stuck the clock to 7:30pm, when every kid in the US is going out to trick or treat their neighbours… now… are these only trees, or you could feel a mood for PVP and PVE by trying to avoid being killed by hidden vampires, scrarecrows and murderers? Maybe it’s too late, you walked in the swamp for the last time!

Not really actually… it’s more like « Buildable on Demand ».

With the new updates of the Rust Core, more features of the game will be customizable by the Map Makers, people like us who customize what you see in the game. And this was on the roadmap for at least 2 years due to the lack of support for customization. So now, there will be less « random stuff driven by plugins », and more « specific elements customizable on demand », like letting Bradley roam on the roads of your map. Read more Someone’s haunting, but the Bus Stop is not unbuildable…