Gravis Island

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GitHub - k1lly0u/Oxide.Ext.RustEdit: Oxide extension to allow further customisation in Rust maps

About Gravis Island

Welcome to Gravis Island! (3700km Map)

As featured in the Official Rust Community Blog and Rustmaps.com, as well as hosted on many official Rust servers we hope to bring a new experience to Rust players with Gravis Island

Creators

CollapsedOrange
Lone
Nox
WhoisMikeJones?

Gravis Island was developed with the intention of creating a familiar Rust experience while expanding on the idea of focusing on in-game items that are currently underutilized. Everything that has been placed on this map was hand-done by four veterans in the Rust Map Making scene. This experience was more than just making something fun for players, but a great team-building experience where we got to know each other more and shared some great laughs along the way.

The map we made has some small additions to monuments we feel could help increase foot traffic, while also giving more reasons to explore more of the map. We implemented a network of mountain tunnels to allow the players to traverse the landscape in an easier way, with small wooden bridges, military checkpoints, and more. To prepare for the future submarine update, we instituted ocean-based monuments players could visit on their explorations out at sea.

Just adding new content wasn’t our only focus, user playability, performance, and progression was a key component in our initial planning stages. We conceptualized many mockups of different styles of maps until our team felt we had something that was balanced. Our progression begins on the southwest of the map and cascades to the northeast. As a player moves from one side to the other, they will be met with better tier monuments and more difficult challenges along the way. The map also features a handful of various islands that players can travel to if they prefer the more secluded lifestyle.

Every aspect of this map was handcrafted from beginning to end. We are very proud of what we accomplished in the two weeks we worked on this together and had a wonderful time making it.

Information and Specifics

Our wonderful friend and well-known idle in the Rust community has done an excellent walkthrough of the map showing you pretty much every key point! Be sure to check it out HERE!
This map CAN be run under the community tab (vanilla) however you still need to have oxide installed in order for the plugin for the map to fully load.

Standard Monuments (Unchanged)

Junkyard
Outpost
Airfield
Water Treatment Plant
Satellite Dish
Military Tunnel
Launch Site
Power Plant
Quarries
Mining outpost
Oil Rigs
Caves (SPOILER: I5, V3, P9, U11, L16)
Underground train system
Aboveground train system
Underwater Labs
Nuclear Missile Silo
Radtown

Tweaked Monuments

Harbor (Little extension with more loot and recycler)
Trainyard (Little railway that goes off to seem more natural with the land)
Supermarket (More decor/cover added around the outside)
Gas Station (More Decor/cover added around the outside)
Sewer Branch (Custom rockface road leading up to it in the artic biome)
Custom Monuments
Checkpoint (entry point to go through the mountain tunnel leading to mil tuns. Does include a few NPCs, loot and MRLS)
Two roadside water pump stations
Water Villages in the ocean
Mini Pawn station on the roadside
Underground tunnel system through the mountains
Fully custom bridges crossing rivers or bodies of water
Underwater dive sites
Custom Arctic Research Facility