Groups listed by membership count, such as their peak number of Discord or Steam group members.

1,480 - Play Rust Wiki Steam group
1,278 - The Government
1,131 - The Pipe n' Poob Tavern
~200 - Secret Clan
~50 - ORP

Groups listed by the approximate date they were founded.

Feb 2023 - ORP
Aug 2022 - Co-op
21st Oct 2021 - The Government
23rd May 2018 - The Pipe n' Poob Tavern
2017 - Secret Clan
5th July 2013 - Play Rust Wiki Steam group

Groups listed alphabetically.

Co-op
F1 Clan
ORP
Secret Clan
The Government
The Nuthouse
The Pipe n' Poob Tavern

Play Rust Wiki Steam group
Rust Community Archive

Bandits
Raid spectators
Stream fans
Stream snipers

Scroll down to find a list of groups sorted alphabetically, by date, and by size.

The discussion section of the Rust Community Archive is used as a wiki to save gameplay culture for nostalgia. Everyone's free to save Rust community content here, as long as it's not inappropriate or copyrighted.

Please keep in mind that this is about saving fun memories, not cataloging player drama. It's also not intended for advertising, although if you want to archive your project then let me know.

A useful page for writing on Steam (text formatting):
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/comment/Guide/formattinghelp

This group was modelled on the Gmod Community Archive:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/gca1

In particular, the GCA's guidelines are used:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/gca1/discussions/0/364039785165217517/

Main index

15.03.23 The Pipe n' Poob Tavern (March 2023)
15.03.23 List of posts
15.03.23 Guidelines
15.03.23 Groups index
15.03.23 Main index
19.03.23 Group size evolution
23.03.23 Rust dictionary
23.03.23 Wiremod's relation to Rust electricity
23.03.23 Hudson633 memes
23.03.23 Government magazine covers
23.03.23 Rust memes
24.03.23 Overreacting
27.03.23 nebulous Rust server
27.03.23 Server index
27.03.23 Rustopia servers
29.03.23 Rust News
04.05.23 The war between FG and F1
09.05.23 Assassination Attempt Foiled
13.05.23 Oxum's Hotel
13.05.23 Player-made monuments
13.05.23 Zap Zone
19.05.23 Trivia
14.06.23 Poem of Treason
14.06.23 Token Cheater (poem)
14.06.23 Ode to Stranded
14.06.23 Rust poetry
17.06.23 Raided (poem)
17.06.23 Battle Bus (poem)
17.06.23 Member entitlement
17.06.23 The Trash Takes Itself Out
17.06.23 I'm Still Searching (poem)
17.06.23 The Long Walk Home (poem)
17.06.23 Across The Map I Go (poem)
17.06.23 Gunslinger (poem)
17.06.23 First Attack Chopper (poem)
17.06.23 Warm Welcome (poem)
18.06.23 Free Delivery (poem)
18.06.23 Unbelievable Violence (poem)
18.06.23 Lament for a Stolen Gun
18.06.23 Beach Camper (poem)
19.06.23 A Walk Through The Wilderness
19.06.23 New Player's Haiku
19.06.23 Rusty Moose Roofcamper (poem)
19.06.23 This One is About Rust (poem)
19.06.23 On This Beach (poem)
19.06.23 ChatGPT AI Rust Poem
20.08.23 Server wipe
20.08.23 Government monthly population peak
22.08.23 The Government
22.08.23 Rust News articles
23.08.23 Government rules
23.08.23 Government index
23.08.23 Government ban court
23.08.23 Government leadership
23.08.23 Government scale
24.08.23 Koof on the Roof
24.08.23 Government poems
24.08.23 Battle Bus
24.08.23 Government roleplay
24.08.23 Government raids
24.08.23 Government competition July 2023
24.08.23 Government PvP culture
25.08.23 Government village
25.08.23 Early Government history
25.08.23 The Government as a zerg
25.08.23 Government rebranding
25.08.23 Project R.A.D.A.R.
25.08.23 Government ranks
26.08.23 Map projects
26.08.23 Garry's Mod
26.08.23 Related games
26.08.23 Chippy
27.08.23 Fortnite
27.08.23 Arma 2
27.08.23 Sandbox adjacent
28.08.23 Rust polls
28.08.23 Rust Insights 2023 (poll)
28.08.23 Rust wars
28.08.23 RADAR surveys
28.08.23 Sleepers
28.08.23 Bagged-in
29.08.23 Sleeping bag
29.08.23 Rust items
30.08.23 Secret Clan
24.09.23 The War of the Four Towers
24.09.23 Rust battles
25.09.23 Discord
25.09.23 Rust Discord groups
25.09.23 Harmonic Centrality
25.09.23 Government servers
26.09.23 Heatmaps
26.09.23 Government heatmaps
26.09.23 Government relationship graphs
27.09.23 Geographic profiling
27.09.23 Raiding
27.09.23 Counter-raiding
27.09.23 Automatic raid detection
27.09.23 Transition from Stranded
28.09.23 The Apocalypse Machine
03.10.23 The violence prohibition

The Steam group discussion system only shows the most recent 300 threads, so this list (while not intended to categorize the threads) helps keep them visible incase the 300 number is reached.

By 10th Nov 2023, one post was unaccounted for (200 posts were listed out of 201). It's probably interlinked somewhere in the archive though (pretty much all of them are).

A stone wall surrounded the The Pipe n' Poob Tavern, found on the Rusty Moose Monthly (US) server which I visited on 14th March 2023. An open gate invites you to poke your nose into the compound, where you're met by a row of skulls on spikes. Beyond the welcoming display of skulls are a series of buildings that house different tiers of room, which can be purchased for metal frags or sulfer.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947197415

A T1 apartment would cost you 10,000 which is described on their Discord: "T1 apartments can be purchased from our vending machines that sell notes for 9,999 metal ore. Each T1 contains 1 small furnace, a campfire, a bed, 1 large storage box, and 4 small storage boxes. Utilities like research benches, repair benches, and T1 workbenches are typically in each T1 apt building once we are established."

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947197426

A T2 cost 25,000 and is described as being: "equipped with 4 large storage boxes, 1 small storage box, a campfire, a bed, and 3 small furnaces. They also have a small garden space in-between apartments."

A T3 cost 100,000 and is described: "A T3 apartment has 10+ large storage boxes, 2 small storage boxes, a campfire, a bed, 3 small furnaces, and 2 lockers."

A T4 (mentioned only in their Discord) cost 500,000 but was not described.

The area was a rough one. I had only been in the compound for a few seconds before a fellow Englishman verbally assaulted me. Exploring around the walls I was shot at by a sentry gun, and heard someone firing a pipe shotgun before an assault rifle went off. Some of the buildings appeared to be shops, and I found one structure in poor shape, which I borrowed some clothes from before I scaled a pylon to get a better view of the whole operation.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947197544

They had another compound behind the apartments, which I assume was the military base described on their Discord. Their Discord group had 1,131 members, with one (a CEO nicknamed Ima Poob) having been a member since March 2017. The group describes their institution: "The Pipe n' Poob Tavern aims to capture player interactions that occur in Rust while roleplaying at zerg proportions."

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947197612

Although to call it a roleplay group would undersell the practical functionality of the hotel. It's not just some characters pretending to run a hotel service for the sake of immersion or amusement. Players (I'm told) can pay for a room "bit by bit" with metal ore, and use their rooms to help progress research and crafting while they (and their stored items) are protected by turrets "for the rest of the wipe".

This article was originally written for Rust News, where it was published a day after the Rust Archive version:
https://rustne.ws/2023/03/15/the-pipe-n-poob-tavern/

Bases
- Base types
-- Hotels
Rust News
- Rust News articles

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