The Original gamemode is our team's custom take on Rust, built to drop DayZ's soul into it. The dead walk the towns, infection follows you through death, and nightfall turns the whole island hostile — so you scavenge, patch your wounds, raid crates, run heists and move cash through outposts to stay one step ahead. Every wipe is an open-world survival story, not a farming simulator.
Every feature below links into the player wiki — tap any card to read how it works.
Instead of chopping trees for hours, players scavenge the map for loot drops, raid monuments and players for high-tier gear, and run events to bank cash. That cash spends at NPC outposts — explosives, weapons, armor, medical — everything you need to stay dangerous is a transaction away.
Scavenge items throughout the environment — they spawn on a huge variety of world objects, so exploration always pays out.
Carry your cash to NPC outposts to buy explosives, weapons, armor, medical and utility. Sell scavenged items. Everything has a price — skill decides whether you can afford it.
Buy and sell gear directly with other survivors through the in-game mobile marketplace — no matter where you are on the map.
Level up your TC with cash to unlock stronger building materials. Build tall, build hard — but you'll pay for it.
High-risk engagements across the map: control zone events, plane crashes, treasure wreck sites, cash crate drops, explosive caches — every spawn attracts a fight.
Conduct bank heists across the map — or counter other teams mid-robbery. Huge payouts, louder fights.
Post a bounty on the player who clapped you last wipe. Pick up open contracts for cash rewards. PvP has a payout slip.
Dynamic zombie waves overrun monuments at random intervals. Burn through the horde, grab the drops, and get out before the next wave spawns.
Earn team points by completing seasonal tasks and events to compete for IRL cash prizes on the server leaderboard.
Complete daily, weekly and VIP quests to progress the Lazarus Pass. Unlock weapons, gear, skill points, unique in-game items — and even real Rust Steam skins.
Earn skill points from the Lazarus Pass and spend them across four trees — Farmhand, Smuggler, Ninja and Guerrilla — for faster processing, better drug profits, combat buffs and more.
Collect schematic pieces that never wipe. Upgrade, trade, or redeem them across wipes for Rust skins, in-game items, weapons, supply crates — even VIP ranks.
Earn Redemption Points for killing geared players, then spend them unboxing crates from the Crates Shop. Good fights pay.
Dive into the drug trade — grow a variety of strains, process them, and move product at outposts for serious cash. Watch your back.
Five infected variants that hunt by sight and sound — crouch to slip past, or watch a monument boil over into a full horde outbreak. Shoot one and the whole street turns on you.
A real survival medical layer: infection that follows you through death, plus bleeding, blood loss and broken legs. Field Dressings, Blood Bags, Splints and Anti-Viral keep you breathing.
When the sun sets the whole island shifts: richer loot and hotter military crates, paid for with more infected and darker weather. High risk, high reward, every night.
Roadside SOS crashes drop a burning wreck, two supply caches and a wave of infected. Race there, loot the medical and survivor stashes, and get out — or call one in yourself with a Distress Radio.