Official Server Rules Matrix
Enforced across all Red Haven server nodes. Every rule includes explicit allowed vs forbidden examples so there is zero ambiguity.
General Network Rules
Fundamental guidelines that apply across all Red Haven Rust servers and community channels.
Respect Staff & Administration
Penalty Tier: Warning / SlayStaff decisions in tickets, reports, and ingame investigations are final. Disputing punishments must be done through formal web appeals, not spamming global chat.
Submitting a polite Ban Appeal ticket with video proof and timestamp.
Spamming Discord or global chat calling staff names or spreading false accusations.
No Advertising or Self-Promotion
Penalty Tier: Permanent Network BanAdvertising other Rust servers, external trading shops, cheat providers, or Discord communities is strictly prohibited.
Sharing your personal Twitch/YouTube stream link when playing on Red Haven.
Posting Discord links to other server communities or selling in-game items for real money.
Cheating, Scripting & Unfair Advantage
Hardware, memory, and macro detection protocols enforced by Carbon telemetry.
Prohibition of Third-Party Cheats & Recoil Macros
Penalty Tier: Permanent Network BanUsing aimbots, ESP/wallhacks, recoil compensation software, bloody mouse scripts, crosshair macros with automation, or memory injectors will result in an immediate hardware ban.
Standard monitor hardware crosshairs or legitimate game configuration settings.
Mouse firmware macros compensating for AK-47/MP5 recoil patterns or radar ESP.
Ban Evasion & Association with Cheaters
Penalty Tier: Permanent Network BanPlaying on alt accounts to evade an active ban, or knowingly playing in a team/clan with a cheater to profit from raids, will result in shared permanent bans.
Immediately reporting a suspicious teammate through the web /support system.
Rejoining on a secondary Steam account after being banned, or raiding with a blatant ESP user.
Team Limits & Group Enforcement
Rules governing maximum party sizes, alliance restrictions, and member swaps.
Strict Max Group Limit (Vanilla+ and Trio 2x)
Penalty Tier: 24h - 7d Temp BanOn team-capped servers (e.g. Max 3), under no circumstances may more than 3 players roam together, raid together, defend together, share resources, or be authorized on the same tool cupboard/code lock.
Trading with a neighbor through a safe shopfront or drone marketplace.
Roaming monuments as a 4+ man group, or having an allied neighbor counter-raid your enemies.
Authorized Player Swapping Procedure
Penalty Tier: 24h - 7d Temp BanIf replacing a permanent team member, the leaving player must de-authorize from all Tool Cupboards, Code Locks, Auto-Turrets, and kill themselves. The replacement must wait 3 hours before entering the base.
Logging out a friend who went on vacation, clearing all codes, and adding a new friend after the cooldown.
Swapping players on and off during an active raid to circumvent group limits.
Exploiting & Glitches
Rules forbidding deliberate engine exploitation or mesh abuse.
No Glitching into Rock Formations or World Meshes
Penalty Tier: Permanent Network BanBuilding inside non-accessible rock meshes, underwater world borders, or using sleep-glitches to store loot inside unraidable colliders is forbidden.
Building a standard cliffside bunker with legitimate roof mechanics.
Placing sleeping bags inside mountain collision meshes or glitching loot boxes under the ocean floor.