Quality of Life

Backpacks

Every player carries a backpack on top of Rust's normal inventory: protected storage that stays with you through PvE deaths, learns to pack itself, and hands you items on a hotkey mid-fight.

All players, from day one Protected outside PVP Open with /backpack

How It Works

All players start with one backpack in addition to the normal inventory built into Rust. Outside of PVP situations, backpack contents stay with you on death. Additional backpack slots are available via skills, and backpacks have the very useful yet underappreciated ability to let you bind keys that fetch specific items in specific quantities straight from your backpack to your hotbar.

Backpacks can drop in PVP environments and during certain events, like player-converted raid bases. Everywhere else, your backpack survives death.

The backpack UI open in game — The backpack UI. Skills can grow it to multiple pages.

Gather Modes

At VIP or higher (VIP unlocks at about 20 hours of playtime), your backpack can automatically pull items from your inventory. Open the backpack UI and use the Gather button to cycle modes for the current page, or set a mode with the console command below.

Gather: All - Moves eligible items into your backpack. Matching stacks are filled first, then leftover items can take empty slots (including item types you did not already have stored there).
Gather: Existing - Only moves items that already have a matching stack on that backpack page. Handy for topping off wood, stone, scrap, and similar without vacuuming everything else into storage.
Gather: Off - Turns automatic gathering off for that page.

Gather prefers keeping stacks in your normal inventory when a matching stack is already there, so it will not yank partial stacks out of your pockets just to restack them in the backpack.

Commands

Chat Commands

Type in chat

/backpackOpen your backpack

/backpackguiToggle the backpack GUI button

Console Commands

Press F1 for the console

backpackOpen your backpack. If you have more than one page of backpack slots this command will also cycle through them.

backpack.openAlternative command to open your backpack. Also cycles pages if you have more than one.

backpack.fetch <item shortname> <amount>Take the set amount of items from your backpack to your hotbar (or inventory if the hotbar is full).

backpack.setgathermode <All|Existing|Off> [page]Set gather mode for a backpack page (VIP+).

Keybind Samples

In game press F1 to open your console. You can copy and paste the keybinds below into that console or type your own. Use any key in place of the [b] and [f] keys in the examples.

F1 Console

bind b backpack

Binds opening and cycling your backpack to [b] on your keyboard. backpack.open works the same way.

bind f backpack.fetch explosive.timed 2

Brings two C4 from your backpack to your hotbar each time you press [f]. Set as many fetch binds as you like, one per item.

Backpack size upgrades come from the skill tree. Questions? Ask in Discord.