Dragon - Rule the Skies

Bring a fire-breathing boss encounter to your Rust server.

Dragon patrols above your map, hunts players, launches explosive fireballs, and rains grenades down during strafing runs. Roaring audio and flame effects bring this flying scrap-metal creature to life.

Fight it from the ground. Bring it down to claim burning loot crates and wreckage.

Features

• Explosive fireballs: Configurable damage, explosion radius, horizontal attack range, and cooldown.
• Strafing attacks: Overhead grenade runs with contact explosions.
• Anti-air combat: Attacks occupied player helicopters.
• Retaliation: Responds to attackers and remembers recent threats.
• Cover pressure: Can continue attacking a player's last known location when they hide.
• Flare defense: Counters incoming homing missiles with a configurable cooldown.
• Homing targetability: Choose whether players can lock onto Dragon.
• Damage effects: Electrical sparks activate at one-third health.
• Death rewards: Airborne explosion, falling harvestable debris, and configurable Bradley loot crates.
• Loot integrations: Normal loot, AlphaLoot profiles, or Loot Table presets.
• Map marker: Optional Patrol Helicopter map marker.
• Automatic spawning: Maintain between 0 and 5 dragons, with configurable lifetime and respawn delay.
• Departure behavior: Flies toward the map edge when its lifetime ends.
• In-game editor: Configure the encounter through /dragon.
• TruePVE support.

Customize the Encounter

Adjust Dragon's health and protection against bullets, explosions, and anti-vehicle damage.

Configure targeting, fire attacks, strafing, flare defense, loot rewards, crate fire duration, and automatic spawning through the in-game editor.

Optional targeting settings include patrol helicopter player threat rules, ignoring players in safe zones, and ignoring vanished players.

Commands

All commands require server administrator access or the dragon.admin permission.

• /dragon - Opens the settings editor.
• /dragon spawn - Spawns a flying dragon above and ahead of you.
• /dragon leave - Sends the nearest dragon toward the map edge to despawn.
• /dragon remove - Removes the nearest dragon without death rewards.

Additional Admin Commands

• /dragon test - Spawns a stationary demonstration with flame bursts and fireballs.
• /dragon hover - Makes the nearest dragon hold position.
• /dragon fly - Resumes flight and patrol, ending stationary test mode.

Hover, fly, leave, and remove select the nearest fully built dragon within 150 metres.

Permission

dragon.admin - Grants access to Dragon's commands and configuration editor. Server administrators already have access.

Turn your server's skyline into a battlefield.