The sound of bells faded into the memories of the island residents as they packed their Christmas decorations away. Santa had come frequently over the last few weeks riding through the sky to drop sparkling presents and sneaking presents along the ground outside when people weren’t looking. All this to prepare the island residents for the ultimate celebration of Christmas that came swiftly. Shades of red and green with touches of silver and gold lit the land and hearts of the people. The cities were crammed with the residents as they celebrated together with melting chocolate bars, bright lights and garland over windows and doors, and a smattering of snowflakes to dust the streets. Good cheer was shared on that fine evening and the island residents went bed with full bellies and bright smiles. And yet, when one of the city mayors awoke several mornings later, he was devastated find the well worn path to the town hall was ravaged. Decayed remnants of the city were spread across...

Rust Empires One Year Anniversary Event!   To celebrate our one year anniversary, we’re doing an event that will give everyone a very simplified look at the original server concept. The map is broken into three cities (Empires) and clans can only build on claims connected to whatever city they pledge their loyalty to. During the next 2 weeks, the cities battle to control the Warzone to decide who is the dominating empire. There is no PVP/KOS outside of the Warzone.

  No Man’s Land has moved into its phase 2: claimable lands with clans vying for control of the re-born Warzone.   Each time a land is claimed for the first time, the group will be rewarded a supply signal. On purge day, we will tally up who controls how many points and each team will be given weapons/explosives based on how many claims they own at that point in time.   General Rules You don’t need to announce attacks, standard No Man’s Land rules apply. Raiding and KOS allowed at anytime within The Warzone. Can only wall off bases, not whole zones. Turrets and traps are allowed outside in this area. All clans or solo players are allowed to participate as long as they don’t live in a frontier, city, or RP claim. Land Claiming Your non-Warzone land does not need to be touching this area to make your first claim. All claims after that point most be connected to your first Warzone claim. Players can claim or take over land every 4 hours. If you lose a claim...

Hey, peeps, as some of you have likely noticed there have been rules/info posted about FTP admins and Admin Council from the past few weeks.   Today, we are officially announcing the restructuring of the staff team!   Currently, the owners handle map drawing, plugins, ban appeals, and many more things. By adding these new ranks and sharing some of these responsibilities, it allows the server owners to take a step back. We have been running the server for a year with a steadily increasing amount of work on our plate so we are grateful to our team members who want to help with taking on some additional work. Hopefully if there is time from distributing some of our tasks, we could start posting more on the Rust Empires’ Youtube page; address other items that need attention for the server;  and also start to think about other games we could apply the Empires’ ruleset to.   TLDR, the server owners will be taking a step back from the daily server work and so we have the...

SAM turrets With the addition of the new SAM turrets, players will only be allowed to place these in No Man’s Land. Originally we wanted them to be allowed in all bases, but the radius is huge and the damage of the rockets can destroy the new hot air balloons quickly. If a SAM turret is placed in NML but is able to hit targets outside of NML, it will be removed without any warning and your ammo will be lost.   Tool Cabinets in No Man’s Land Bases inside of NML no longer require their Tool Cabinets to be legal. Meaning in NML ONLY, TCs can be placed within honeycomb without any door access.   City Evictions Since we tried the City Council for two months and it failed to pick up steam, all players on Rust Empires are allowed to vote on Frontier & City evictions.    City Requirements To make a city, we have increased the required amount of players to four. We’ve seen many cities fail fast since they never get enough people, to avoid that we have increased the...

  As we near our third and final week of this wipe, we will be adding in The Warzone. The area that was previously No Man’s Land is now claimable by groups who will battle for control of this area. We hope to do this each wipe, next time we will most likely begin it sooner (closer to the half way point).

On Tuesday, the three teams took a break from the war with each other to split up into two crews to at sea. The objective was to infiltrate the enemy ship and destroy the opposing teams TC. Player General Lee streamed the event. Take a look below; Watch Damage INC — Muckdogs JG– Practice from Hairy116 on www.twitch.tv