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Untouched rates. Three man teams. A small map tuned so the frame rate holds where the fights are. Nothing in the store affects gameplay and it never will.

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01 / Servers

One server. Run properly.

We do not run twelve half empty boxes. One NA server, sized so it actually feels full, wiped on the same schedule every week.

BEAMS.GG — Vanilla Trio

US Central Vanilla 1x Trio Weekly Thu No BP Wipe 125 Slots
/ 125 live count starts Sep 3
client.connect connect.beams.gg:28015

Find us in game

Community tab. Search BEAMS. Filter to NA and Vanilla if the list is long. Favourite us once and we sit in your Favourites tab every wipe after that.

Second server

A modded 2x trio server is planned once the vanilla server is consistently full. We are not opening it early. Two half empty servers is worse than one that fills.

Announced in Discord first.


02 / Wipes

Thursday. 3PM Central. Every week.

The schedule does not move for holidays, updates, or anything else. If it ever has to, you hear it here first and in advance.

Map wipe
Every Thursday
Time
3:00 PM CT / 4:00 PM ET / 20:00 UTC
Blueprint wipe
Force wipe only
Force wipe
First Thursday, monthly
Map
Procedural 3800
Seed announced
Wednesday night, Discord
On force wipe Thursdays Facepunch updates at 1:00 PM CT. We update and restart before wiping at 3:00, so give it a few minutes if you cannot connect right at one.

Next six wipes

Thu Sep 3
Force · Map + BP
Thu Sep 10
Map
Thu Sep 17
Map
Thu Sep 24
Map
Thu Oct 1
Force · Map + BP
Thu Oct 8
Map

03 / Config

What we changed, and what we did not.

Everything that affects how the game plays is stock. The only things we touched make it run better or keep the map clean.

Stock, untouched

Gather rates
Vanilla 1x
Stack sizes
Vanilla
Smelting & crafting
Vanilla
Loot tables
Vanilla
Component scrap rates
Vanilla
Recycler speed
Vanilla
Teleports, kits, homes
None
Skinbox
None

Changed on purpose

Decay
1.5x
Dropped item despawn
240s
Animal populations
~50%
Global base networking
Off
Collision effects to client
Off
Tickrate
30
Group limit
3
Plugins running
9
Group limit is enforced by people, not by code. The server warns a fourth player instead of blocking them, because on the Community listing Facepunch does not allow a plugin to prevent it. We read the logs, we take reports, and we ban teams that keep doing it.

04 / Performance

Built for the PC you actually have.

Server side is done. This is the client side. Every setting here is worth real frames on old hardware.

Start with this

Rust piles up memory across a session. This clears it without a restart. Paste it in the F1 console once, then hit P whenever it starts stuttering.

bind p gc.collect;pool.clear_assets;\ pool.clear_memory;pool.clear_prefabs

Biggest single win on an older rig, and it takes ten seconds.

Steam launch options

-high -malloc=system \ -window-mode exclusive -nolog \ -maxMem=XXXX
8 GB RAM
-maxMem=8192
12 GB RAM
-maxMem=12288
16 GB RAM
-maxMem=16384
32 GB RAM
-maxMem=32768

autoexec.cfg

Create it at Rust/cfg/autoexec.cfg. These do nothing in launch options, they only work here.

graphics.quality 1 graphics.shadowdistance 0 graphics.drawdistance 1500 grass.on false grass.displacement false gfx.ssaa false gfx.bloom false gfx.grain false gfx.shafts false terrain.idleinterval 0 gc.buffer 2048 effects.maxgibs 0 client.clampscreenshake true

Graphics menu

Display mode
Exclusive fullscreen
Screen scale
90%
V-Sync
Off
Reflex
On + Boost
Graphics quality
1
Shadow quality / distance
0 / 50
Draw distance
1500 – 2000
Tree & decor
0
Grass / particles
0–50 / 0–25
Max gibs
0
Water quality / reflections
0–2 / 0
Anti-aliasing
FXAA only
Motion blur, DoF, AO
Off
Music
Off. Effects loud.
Do not crush draw distance to 500. It buys almost nothing and it loses you fights. 1500 to 2000 is the answer. Measure with perf 1 while you run the same loop through a busy monument, not standing on a beach.

05 / Store

You cannot buy an advantage here.

No kits. No items. No resources. No gather bonuses. No skins. Not a policy we are following. It is the point of the server.

BEAMS VIPQueue priority, coloured name, Discord VIP role, raid alerts
$6.99/mo
VIP LifetimeSame, permanent. Launch offer.
$39.99
Name ColourColoured in game name only
$4.99
SupporterDiscord role and a Hall of Fame listing
$14.99
Supporter+Above, plus a permanent credit in Discord
$24.99
Wipe SponsorYour tag on one wipe announcement and that week’s recap
$24.99
Open Store

Where the money goes

Hosting, a moderation service, and a domain. That is the whole cost base. Anything past that goes back into the server, and if it ever does not, we will say so.

Delivery is instant. If a purchase has not landed in fifteen minutes, open a store ticket in Discord. We answer those within 72 hours and usually much faster.


06 / Rules

Fourteen rules. We mean all of them.

Warning, timeout, kick, temp ban, permanent. Cheating, hate speech, doxxing, threats, ban evasion and scamming skip the ladder.

  1. Trio max. Three players per team, base and TC. No rotating fourth, no “we are just trading”.
  2. No cheating. Aimbot, ESP, scripts, macros, exploits, any third party advantage. Permanent, not appealable for 90 days.
  3. No cheat advertising or telling people where to get them. Instant permanent.
  4. No ban evasion. Alt accounts extend the original ban.
  5. No teaming past trio. Cross team alliances, gearing another team, shared bases all count.
  6. No racism, slurs or hate speech. Chat, voice, signs, names. Zero tolerance.
  7. No harassment, doxxing or threats. Instant permanent.
  8. No griefing exploits. Door camping is fine. Despawn proof monument blocking, terrain abuse and duping are not.
  9. No scamming. Deals made in chat or Discord are binding. Report with evidence.
  10. English in global. Any language you want in team or voice.
  11. No advertising other servers, stores or Discords.
  12. No impersonating staff. Staff have a role. If they do not, they are not.
  13. Chargebacks are a permanent ban across every BEAMS server.
  14. Staff decisions are final in the moment. Appeal after, through the form.

How admin works here

Owner plays on
A named account with zero admin flags
Admin work happens on
A separate account that does not build, farm or raid
Vanish, teleport, godmode, noclip, spawns
Auto logged to a public Discord channel
Items spawned for players
Never. No exceptions.
Staff in raids and clan disputes
Recuse, always
Complaints about staff
Go to a form that staff cannot see

If any of that stops being true you should leave, and you should say so publicly.


07 / Support

Everything goes through a ticket.

Nothing gets handled in DMs. Tickets get seen by the whole team, DMs get lost.

What happenedWhere it goesResponse
CheaterPress F7 in game, then file a report. F7 notifies us and EAC.24 hrs
Teaming past trioReport form, with clips. Names alone are not enough.24 hrs
Scam or trade disputeReport form, with screenshots of the agreement48 hrs
Store or purchase issueStore ticket in Discord72 hrs
Ban appealAppeal form. Permanent bans lock for 30 days, cheating bans 90.7 days
Staff misconductAdmin conduct form. Staff cannot see it.72 hrs
Anything elseGeneral ticket in Discord24 hrs

Forms

Before you open one

Lost your base or your loot
We do not restore items
Offline raided
Allowed, same as vanilla
VIP has not delivered
Reconnect first, then ticket
Warned for group size
Warning only. Fix the team.

Everything else is in Discord

Wipe pings, map seeds, LFG threads on Wednesday night, clip of the week, and the leaderboard that does not reset when the map does.

Join Discord