Author: Mike6FO

Game appears to freeze for a half second

If your game freezes for just a brief second (not a rubber band effect that is usually associated with network/server lag), Rust may be doing what is called a garbage collect (GC). GCs are a way for programs to free up memory not being used. When a GC happens in Rust, the game can appear to freeze for a brief moment. Some players may associate this brief pause with lag, but this is not the case.

How do I know if Rust is doing a garbage collect?

Sometimes, you can see the GC reported in F1 console. It will display as
[GC] Emergency garbage collection: followed by an amount of memory that was freed up. However, not all GCs are shown here. To see them all, you can turn on Advanced Ping in options to show you detailed info about your memory, fps, ping and GC events. To do this, from the Rust main menu, go to Options then under Gameplay, set FPS Counter to “Advanced + Ping”. This will display your FPS, memory and current server ping in the bottom left of the screen. If a GC event happens, a fourth line will be very briefly displayed above it alerting you to the GC. Again, the line is shown very briefly so you have to be quick in spotting it.

Image showing GC event in Rust.
Image showing GC event in Rust

New Raidable Bases Added

We have added an extra 110 base designs to the Raidable Bases system. We are still reviewing them all to make sure they have enough loot boxes for each tier, but the base configs appear good on most so far.

Easy, Medium and Hard received 30 bases each. Expert and Nightmare received 10 each.

January 2025 Wipe

Happy New Year Everyone! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and hope your 2025 turns out great as well!

We do have a couple changes to let you know about:

  • Raidable Bases Hint Command – /rb hint is now available on Hard, Expert and Nightmare bases. This command will show you loot locations for any remaining crates in the base. Players must locate 80% of the loot before being able to run the hint command. The command also has a 60 second cooldown between uses.
  • Clan system has been upgraded to Clans Reborn. Same basic functionality as before. However, we are not enabling the auto team create option at this time.
    UPDATE: Config for team auto create got set back to on by mistake during the upgrade, so we will be leaving it on for now.

FP rolled back some expected changes (the right thing to do IMO considering I’m sure a lot of their staff was off during Christmas). So most everything else should be business as usual except for some general bug fixes and such.

As always, please let us know if you run into any problems by making a ticket in #admin-help on our Discord.

Wallpaper Damage

We are testing a no wallpaper damage plugin. Test on our test server were very promising, so we now have it loaded on live for further testing.

For now, wallpaper shouldn’t take damage. We will be evaluating its performance the rest of the wipe. As always, if you notice any issues, please make a ticket in #admin-help on our Discord.

December ’24 Wipe

First off: Merry Christmas from HNC Rust!

This month, Facepunch added their own car radio item to Rust. This is a craftable item. Since it’s mostly redundant to our old car radio, that plugin has been removed. The plugin did offer more flexibility, but also caused some issues with gameplay. So it was decided to remove the plugin in favor of the inbuilt item.

All plugins have received their updates (if needed) for December. So everything should be good to go!

Of course, please let us know in #admin-help on our Discord if you run into any problems so we can look into them for you.

As always, thanks for being a part of HNC Rust!

Changing Stack Plugin

The plugin we have used for a long time to modify stack sizes has not been updated since the November wipe. This has caused some issues with new items like the Handmade SMG. We have decided to switch to a different stacks plugin and have rolled it out with the 5:00pm reboot. Please let us know on our Discord in #admin-help if you notice any issues with stacks. All stacks should be 500k with the exception of photos and headbags.

Animal AI and Population

We have been tweaking the animal population a bit to see if it will help server side FPS (especially with the new Wolf AI). However, the adjustments didn’t help as much as we had hoped. The new Wolf AI is great, but is a major source of resource drain.

Server FPS is already getting very low just a few days into wipe. So we are going to go ahead and kill off animal AI for now.

Item Retriever Update and Building Workbench

Item Retriever has been updated. This ‘should’ fix the issues with weapons not reloading correct (or any) ammo from the backpack plugin.

Building workbench has been added. We are going to be watching the load it creates and may have to remove it later. But for now, you should be able to access your workbench from anyplace inside your base. NOTE: You must have TC auth to access the workbench this way and you may have to move around some before it detects you correctly.