Scraplings is a creature-collector built natively for Rust. It's not a minigame bolted onto the side of your server — creatures appear as players go about their normal wipe, in the biomes and monuments where they belong, and everything happens in-world.
Find them. Catch them. Collect them. Battle them.
Find them. Creatures don't appear on a timer — they appear as your players move. Where you are decides what you meet: biome, terrain, monument, altitude, water depth, time of day and even the weather all feed the spawn table. A creature you find in the snow at night is not the one you'll find in the desert at noon.
Catch them. Every wild encounter is a real battle. Wear it down, land a burn or a freeze, then use a Scrap Crystal — the weaker and more impaired it is, the better your odds. Get greedy and you'll knock it out instead.
Build them. Every creature levels, learns new abilities as it grows, and can be taught more from rare Ability Shards found out in the world. 80 of them evolve, some by level, some only when you find the right catalyst. Six hidden Genes are rolled the moment you catch one — roll all six perfect and you've got something worth bragging about.
Fight with them. Every wild creature you meet is a real battle — type matchups, status effects, switching your party and reading what the other side is about to do. It's the same system whether you're catching something in a field or defending a title.
Out in the world you'll also run into tamers: NPC handlers who travel the map and turn up at monuments, each with their own team, their own preferred types and their own opinion of you. Most are ordinary tamers — a fight, a payout, and on your way.
A few are not. The stronger tamers field genuinely dangerous teams, and beating one earns you their sigil — a trophy that goes into your collection as recognition that you put them down. Sigils are one-time: once you hold a tamer's mark, that challenge is closed for good, so they stand as milestones across a wipe rather than something to grind.
And when you think your team is ready, there are always other players. Challenge anyone nearby, wager currency on the outcome.
Keep them. Trade with other players, store your overflow in the Skylink, and fill out a Bestiary that tracks everything you've seen and everything you've caught.
There are 215 creatures to find, and the ones that matter aren't handed to you. Perfect-Gene rolls, evolution catalysts, rare Ability Shards and tamer sigils all give your players something to chase long after the usual wipe-day rush is over — and none of it requires them to stop playing Rust to do it.
Wipe settings allow for your progress to persist between wipes, extending the grind and giving incentive to build the perfect team.
Every creature has one or two of 19 types, and every ability has a type of its own. Hit something with an ability it's weak to and you'll do more damage — hit it with something it resists and you'll barely scratch it. A few matchups do nothing at all.
- Radiation — Fallout given a body. Rots the mind and the soul alike, tearing through Psychic, Ghost, Grass and Fairy. Shrugs off Fire, Electric, Poison and even other Radiation. Water washes it away, Ground buries it, Mechanical doesn't care.
- Sand — Abrasive grit that strips paint off anything mechanical. Chews through Fire, Electric, Poison, Flying, Rock and Mechanical alike — the widest offensive spread in the game. Wet it down with Water, root it with Grass, or freeze it solid.
- Typeless — No strengths, no weaknesses, no bad matchups. Reliable damage against anything, and the fallback every team can lean on.
- Fire — Burns through Grass, Ice, Bug and Mechanical. Smothered by Water, Ground, Rock and Sand.
- Water — The largest family on the roster. Drowns Fire, Ground, Rock, Radiation and Sand, and resists six types in return. Only Electric and Grass trouble it.
- Electric — Fast and disruptive, shorting out Water, Flying and Mechanical. Ground ignores it completely, and Sand grounds it out.
- Grass — Strangles Water, Ground, Rock and Sand, but it's the most exploitable type in the game — six different things burn, freeze, poison or eat it.
- Ice — Brittle but brutal. Freezes Grass, Ground, Flying, Dragon and Sand, and resists almost nothing.
- Fighting — Raw physical pressure through Typeless, Ice, Rock and Mechanical. Can't touch Ghost at all, and folds to Flying, Psychic and Fairy.
- Poison — Attrition rather than damage. Melts Grass and Fairy, resists six types, and does nothing whatsoever to Mechanical.
- Ground — Six super-effective matchups and total immunity to Electric. Flying floats over it entirely.
- Flying — Hit-and-run. Beats Grass, Fighting and Bug, ignores Ground, but gets swatted by Electric, Ice, Rock and Sand.
- Psychic — Dominates Fighting and Poison, and answers little else. Bug, Ghost and Radiation all get inside its guard.
- Bug — Swarms Grass and Psychic. Cheap, fast, and folds to Fire, Flying and Rock.
- Rock — Heavy hitters that crush Fire, Ice, Flying and Bug — with six weaknesses to pay for it.
- Ghost — Only Ghost and Radiation can touch it properly, and Typeless attacks pass straight through. Preys on Psychic and its own kind.
- Dragon — The rarest type on the roster. Resists all four elements, but only Dragon damage gets past another Dragon, and Fairy hard-counters it — immune to Dragon attacks and super-effective in return.
- Mechanical — The wall. Resists twelve of the nineteen types. Cracking one open takes Fire, Electric, Fighting, Ground or Sand.
- Fairy — The Dragon-killer, and strong into Fighting. Poison, Mechanical and Radiation cut it down.
Players don't need to memorize any of it — the full effectiveness chart is built into the in-game reference menu, and can be switched off in config if you'd rather your server figured it out the hard way.
Most of the interactions are handled via the player and admin user interface.
The below commands are for functionality that extends over and above what the UI covers.
Requires the scraplings.admin permission.
Command: scraplings.editor
Action: Opens the Content Editor — species, abilities, shards, tamers, monuments and the Creator.
Command: scraplings.spawn [species] [level]
Action: Forces a wild encounter on yourself. Naming a species overrides the normal spawn table, which makes testing a specific creature trivial.
Command: scraplings.terraininfo
Action: Prints the biome, topology, tier and time of day for where you're standing, plus every creature that can spawn there with its odds. The fastest way to sanity-check a spawn rule.
Command: scraplings.heal [player]
Action: Fully heals a party.
Command: scraplings.levelup <slot|all> [level]
Action: Levels a party creature, or the whole party, to a target level.
Command: scraplings.vendor spawn <depot|repair> · remove · list
Action: Places a shop or Repair Bay vendor, removes the one you're looking at, or lists what's placed.
Command: scraplings.tamer spawn <profile> · remove · list
Action: Places a tamer NPC from one of your profiles, removes the one you're looking at, or lists what's placed.
Command: scraplings.tamer addspawn static <profile>
Action: Saves a permanent spawn point here, so that tamer returns after a restart.
Command: scraplings.tamer addspawn monument
Action: Saves a monument-local random spawn point — tamers will rotate through these rather than sitting in one place.
Command: scraplings.tamer spawns · clearspawns monument
Action: Lists saved spawn points, or clears the monument ones.
Command: scraplings.givecrystal [crystal] [count] [player]
Command: scraplings.giveshard <shard> [count] [player]
Command: scraplings.givecatalyst <catalyst> [count] [player]
Command: scraplings.givecash <amount> [player]
Action: Grants Capture Crystals, Ability Shards, evolution catalysts or currency.
Command: /sl
Action: Opens the main menu. Everything else a player needs lives in here — party management, Bestiary, battles, trading, wallet, sigils and settings.
Command: /sldepot
Action: Opens the shop from wherever you're standing, without walking to a vendor.
Permission: scraplings.remotedepot
Command: /slrepair
Action: Opens the repairer from wherever you're standing, without walking to a repairer.
Permission: scraplings.remoterepairbay
Command: /slspectate <player>
Action: Watch another player's battle live. Run it with no argument to stop watching.
Command: /slhelp
Action: Lists every command available to you.
