Welcome to Lone Wolf Rust

• Chat, Voice, & Content Communications:
  • The use of racial slurs is prohibited and will be censored.
  • Doxxing (using/leaking real life information of another player for malicious purposes) is prohibited and will result in a permanent ban.
  • Threats of real-life harm against players or staff are prohibited and will result in a permanent ban.
  • Spamming / advertising / poaching to other servers of any kind is prohibited and will result in appropriate action being taken against the offending account.
  • Communications that violate the Terms of Service for Steam, Facepunch, or Rust and/or local applicable laws are prohibited.

• Ethics & Integrity: The Lone Wolf Rust Staff Team is committed to performing our duties with the highest level of ethics, integrity, and honesty in all interactions.


• No Gameplay by Staff: The Lone Wolf Rust Staff Team (Owners, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Administrators) will never play on any of our servers as a player for any reason.
• Staff Members are frequently connected and online in-game for monitoring purposes. While monitoring, the Staff Team may speak in global chat and engage with players in a friendly fashion. However, they are not playing or otherwise interacting with the physical in-game environment whatsoever.
• Player Moderators are excluded from this policy as they are normal players whose only advantage is the ability to place a temporary in-game mute. They do not have access to any other info or tools beyond a regular player.


• No In-Game Manipulation by Staff: The Lone Wolf Rust Staff Team is committed to not artificially impacting the natural state and progression of gameplay on our servers. We will never use our powers, permissions, or capabilities to impact gameplay.
• No spawning of items or entities.
• Exception 1: In the event of a server crash or major server-caused issue, players are eligible for lost items to be returned/compensated by Staff Team using our #open-a-ticket support system.
• Exception 2: We do reward our entire community with Pookie Bears for special occasions (or to compensate for crashes/inconveniences). These are in-game teddy bears that are placeable and provide a comfort bonus.
• Exception 3: Very rarely, for big server achievements (raising money for charity, server birthdays, or reaching a high rank on BM), we may also hand out Coffins or other items to all online players.
• No changing the in-game time or weather.
• No removal or relocation of walls/objects/entities.
• No modification of decay rates, gather rates, or spawn rates.


No Power Abuse:
• All actions taken by Staff Members must have a legitimate business purpose for performing the action.
• All actions taken against players must have sufficient evidence collected in advanced to ensure certainty and validity of the mute/ban. All evidence must be reviewed by a human prior to issuance of the mute/ban.
• Any actions taken by Staff Members that are deemed excessive, spiteful, retaliatory, ego-driven, or otherwise improper will result in reversal of the action taken and immediate action taken against the Staff Member including potential dismissal.
• All information, data, and toolsets provided to Lone Wolf Rust Staff Members are strictly for the purpose of maintaining and enforcing our in-game rulesets, guidelines, and policies. The use of this information for any other purpose, or the sharing of this information to non-staff members, will result in immediate termination.

• Lone Wolf Rust reserves the right to update the official rules, guidelines, and policies at any time.
• Lone Wolf Rust reserves the right to deny service to any player for any reason at the full discretion of the Staff Team.
• The official rules, guidelines, and policies of Lone Wolf Rust are not considered all-encompassing.
• Players should use common sense and act in good faith while playing on our servers.
• Any player found to be substantively harmful to the overall community or the server itself may be removed accordingly.
• Just because a specific situation is not covered in detail by our rules does not mean it is allowed.
• When in doubt, please reach out to our Staff Team with questions to avoid any potential issues.

• Players are expected to use the in-game report system (press the F7 key while in Rust) AND use our Discord ticketing system (#open-a-ticket channel in Discord.GG/lonewolf) to provide additional information to our staff team when reporting players.





• Under no circumstances can a player on Lone Wolf servers call out cheaters or teamers in-game using global chat. Once a player is “called out” – they know they are being watched and will discontinue their behavior. This prevents our Staff Team from monitoring the activity, collecting evidence, and progressing the investigation.


• Due to this, players who call out teamers or cheaters in chat will be temporarily muted for 3H (first time). We appreciate everyone’s cooperation in effectively reporting and helping us promptly remove these kinds of negative players.


• Note: Using the F7 report system will trigger an automatic in-game recording of the reported player which is immediately sent to our Staff Team for review. This is an instrumental component of our investigations.

All rules from [GLOBAL] - Cheating & Bans Policy apply to Solo Only in addition to the following rules which are specific to Solo Only:

• The use of cheats/scripts/macros including aimbot, autoclickers/sellers/buyers, ESP, double jump, slowfall, recoil scripts, spinhacks, and other methods of script-assisted gameplay on Lone Wolf Rust will result in a permanent ban.
• Players with a single VAC ban within the last 36 Months / 3 Years OR multiple VACs, are not allowed to join our servers.
• Players with any Game Bans in the past, regardless of age, are not allowed to join our servers.
• Players with alt accounts that meet any of these criteria, or that have bans from within our network, are not allowed to play on our servers.
• Players with a Steam Account less than 30 days old are not allowed to join our servers.
• The use of exploits/glitches that introduce an unfair/unintended advantage over other players is not allowed.
• Players found to be associated with cheating communities, especially for Rust, are not allowed to join the server.
• You are only allowed one appeal for a given ban. You must appeal your own bans, we do not accept appeals on behalf of others.
• Players whose accounts were purchased from Bot Farms (i.e. stolen accounts) are not allowed to join our servers.
• Players using VPNs (aside from Nvidia Shadowplay/GeForceNOW) must apply for a special exception in order to join our servers. This can be done using our ticketing system in Discord.
• Players must use always the main Rust Client to join our Solo Only and Solo/Duo servers. Use of the Staging Client or other branches of Rust to join these servers will result in a temporary ban. This especially applies to players using the Staging Branch to join our servers on wipe day for an unfair advantage before the main Rust client update reaches all players.

All rules from [GLOBAL] - Communications & Toxicity Policy apply to Solo Only in addition to the following rules which are specific to Solo Only:

• We have zero tolerance for racism, slurs, hate speech, and/or excessive toxicity on our server. You will be permanently banned for a first offense and we do not accept appeals for violations of this rule.
• No racial or homophobic slurs. Do not type it, do not write/draw on a sign, do not say it in voice chat, don’t spell it out with fireworks, write it on a note, rename someone’s bag to it, etc.
• No excessive toxicity. Trash talk and profanity are allowed. However, you may not engage in language/behavior that creates an overly toxic environment within the community. Some examples: making real-life threats of harm, glorifying/threatening sexual assault, doxxing players or staff, repeatedly and flagrantly harassing other players/staff, telling community members to commit suicide or encouraging self-harm.
• Be a good person, don’t cross the line with your communications, and you will not have any issues. This is common sense for 99.9% of humanity, but it needs to be spelled out for the 0.1%.

• This is strictly a Solo Only server. Players are expected to obey the rules and spirit of Solo Only gameplay at all times. If at any time, multiple players coordinate to change the dynamic of gameplay to create an environment where their coordination creates a real and direct benefit over a solo player without such cooperation - that gameplay is subject to evaluation, fair warning, and potential action by Staff Members.

Kill on Sight (KOS):

• Kill-on-Sight or KoS is a ruleset that goes into effect in specific situations to ensure fair solo gameplay. Once activated, all players in the immediate area MUST either:
  • A - Immediately engage in combat with nearby players
  or
  • B - Immediately flee the nearby area.
• KoS Activation: You must kill on sight (KOS) during PvP combat occurs nearby (see "Hot Zones" below), during raids/counter-raids, at monuments (large and small), at heli/cargo and other events, air drops, and at decaying bases.
• "Hot Zones" are the immediate area around a player vs. player combat situation.
• Once PvP combat is initiated, the immediate area is considered a hostile hotzone and KoS rules are in effect and all nearby players are mandated to follow the KoS rules.
• Tactical Considerations for KoS: When KoS rule are in effect, brief momentary "tactical pauses" (waiting a few seconds before shooting/fleeing) are allowed for individiaul players if all three apply:
  1. No prior communication exists between players involved.
  2. No coordinated/mutual advantage is gained between the players.
  3. The pause does not provide an unfair strategic benefit over any individual player.
  4. No "meatshield"/bait, coordinated diversions, or other teaming behaviors occur.
Trading & Donations:
Check our Solo Only Guidelines below for more information on trading and donations.

• Trading between players is allowed using drop trades, vending machines, shopfronts, and drones.
• Trades must be relatively equal for each of the two participants and they must be made in realtime.
• Donations to other players are never allowed and will result in a ban.

Solo Only Guidelines - What is Not Allowed?

Bases/Authorizations:

• Sharing/Donating/Trading any base to/with another player – even if you are quitting. Once you seal a base it is considered yours and falls within this rule.
• Sharing authorization on tool cupboards, code locks, turrets, and sharing keys for key locks is prohibited.
• Entering another players base or compound for ANY reason besides raiding or other aggressive actions. Conversely, willingly letting a player inside your base or compound for ANY reason – except to trap and immediately kill them.

Donations/Trading:

• Donating or giving away items. It MUST be a fair trade/exchange of items. No lopsided trades (some charcoal for an M2, etc). We give a very wide range for what is acceptable – if you’re even remotely trying to keep the trade fair we won’t bother you.
• Looting a player and then giving the loot back at a later time or in a different location. Take what you want, immediately drop what you do not want, and move on. Returning loot is now allowed as long as it is immediate.

Raiding:

• Counter-raiding a base and letting any players in the area live.
• Donating or sharing raid loot (or decayed base loot) to other players that show up to the raid or thereafter.
• Forming any kind of agreement with another player during a raid or any other situation covered by the KOS rules.

Teaming Behaviors/Actions:

• Any PvP scenario where 2 players (Players A & B) engage in PvP with another player (Player C) but do not then engage in PvP with each other. You must KoS in hot zones.
• Services/slaving of any kind including taxis.
• Placing down a bag for another player, for any reason, as well as knowingly allowing a bag to be placed on your behalf.
• Two or more players all willingly riding in a vehicle together.
• Roaming, looting monuments and/or decayed bases together, including completing puzzles together.
• Using video, voice, or out-of-game text communication in collaboration with other players to gain an unfair advantage.

Solo Only Guidelines - What is Allowed?

• Being generally friendly to others in the community. This is encouraged.
• Agreements to be friendly with your neighbors. However - you may never defend your neighbors base or otherwise break our Solo Only rules and guidelines.
• Trades must be made in realtime, must be item(s)-for-item(s), one transaction where possible, and must be relatively fair/equal. This applies to all types of trading: drop trades, shopfront trades, vending machines.
• If you encounter another player, you are not required to Kill-On-Sight unless it is a raid/decayed base/monument/event/hotzone (ex: Bradley).
• Talking to other players in global chat, including calling out booms, base locations, etc.

All Cheating & Ban rules are inherited completely from [GLOBAL] - Cheating & Bans Policy.

• There are no additional server-specific Cheating & Ban rules applied to [WILDERNESS] beyond the global policy.
• All players are welcome to join [WILDERNESS]. New accounts and players with previous game/VAC/server bans are allowed to join.
• Players are judged, punished, and banned only for the action they take while connected to [WILDERNESS].