Gather
Use your starting rock on trees and resource nodes. Early wood and stones unlock the rest of the loop.
How To Survive: Legacy Rusted
Legacy Rusted is a persistent multiplayer survival game made exclusively for S&Box. Gather, craft, build defensible homes, and decide who you can trust.
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Your first objective
Gather wood and stone, make a tool, secure food, then establish a respawn point before roaming too far.
88 documented crafting recipes
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Game modes
First daylight
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Build momentum in four moves
Tool up
Craft a stone hatchet, hunting bow, and basic supplies before pursuing higher-risk loot.
Claim shelter
Place foundations, pillars, walls, a doorway, and a Wooden Door. Add a sleeping bag or bed.
Progress
Smelt ore, research recipes, improve your base, and watch the sky for supply drops.
Know before you spawn
The controls that keep you alive
Combat is familiar, but the inventory, map, voice, and powered weapon attachments have dedicated shortcuts.
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MMap
VVoice
FFlashlight mod
GLaser sight
Field catalog
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Early-game essentials
Crafting & research
Recipes, blueprints, workbenches, and progression.
Building & bases
Support rules, ownership, sharing, and deployables.
Survival
Food, medicine, radiation, resources, and world loot.
Multiplayer
Voice, clans, sharing, homes, and teleport requests.