Summary
A group ofRustplayers, headed by Josh “Keeno” Keane, have succeeded in building what’s believed to be the tallest-ever base in Rust.
The final version of the base was exactly 36 floors high, far higher than any reasonable player would build in a casual playthrough of Rust.
Sky High
The world record attempt began on May 23, when Keane and his friend logged onto a premium Rust server and started gathering resources for their attempt.
If you’ve ever played Rust, you’ll know how hotly contested every inch of land on a server is — groups who have amassed resources faster aren’t shy about killing everyone they come across to continue their economic snowball.
The plan was never to build the base on the first day, but rather to collect the resources necessary for early morning construction. Everything had been in place when the group logged out for the night, but the best-laid plans of Rust players often go awry.
While the group slumbered, a party of Russian players raided their base and stole everything they had. It’s a tale as old as time, and a likely outcome if your base is too obvious. Keane and his group planned to build atop a mountain, a thematically appropriate location for a world-record attempt like this.
When Keane logged back in the next morning, he was distraught to find the base ransacked, approximately 7 hours of progress erased overnight. Determined to break the world record, Keane and a friend spent the next 8 hours re-gathering the necessary resources for the build.
After a few hours of building, the base was complete. For the sake of efficiency, only a couple of the bottom floors contain anything useful. The next 34 floors or so are essentially scaffolding, solely designed to increase the height of the base.
At the culmination of the build, Keane and his collaborators looked over the Rust map from atop their grand creation. They leapt off, jubilant at having broken a world record.
The full15 hours of VODsare available on Keane’s Twitch channel if you’d like to follow the group’s journey from start to finish. The Guinness World Records is currently verifying the world record.
