Rusty ToolsGuides
Everything I worked out while building the bind maker, written down properly. The cost and tier figures are computed from the same 626-recipe dataset the tool ships with, so when the game changes and the data is refreshed, the numbers here move with it.
What things cost
Raid costs in sulfur
Every explosive traced to raw sulfur and charcoal, then priced per wall. C4 is cheapest, satchels are not the bargain they look, and a rocket is 1,400 sulfur.
Read →What every round costs
All twenty ammo types ranked by sulfur per round. HV is exactly double, buckshot is three rifle rounds, and nails are free.
Read →Gun Powder
The one recipe under forty others. What a stack costs, how long it takes, and why asking the queue for 1,000 gives you 10,000.
Read →Armour sets, priced out
Wood, bone, road sign, heavy plate and metal as full sets, and the sewing-kit problem that gates all the good ones.
Read →The tech tree
What each workbench unlocks
275 recipes need no bench, 32 need level 3. The whole tree counted, the bench costs, and the components that make level 3 matter to everyone.
Read →The first hour as a crafting list
Fifteen items in the order the dependencies force, two of them on binds, and the full bill down to the animal fat.
Read →Crafting times, counted
The average is 23 seconds, most items take 30 or more, and a raid kit is 48 minutes of queue from raw materials.
Read →Craft yields explained
All 37 items where the number of crafts and the number of items differ, and the arithmetic for asking for what you meant.
Read →Binds and the console
How to make a craft bind
The complete craft.add reference: syntax, chaining, modifier combos, where
keys.cfg lives, and what a craft bind cannot do.
Six loadout binds
Copy-paste lines for spawn kits, medical, ammo, raiding, armour and building — each with the resource bill worked out.
Read →Binds beyond crafting
Auto-run, crouch toggle, callouts, combat log on F1, the tilde trick, and
writecfg, with a layout that keeps them apart.
Every bindable key
All 114 key tokens Rust accepts, spelled exactly as the console wants them. A wrong token fails silently.
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