Official Rust landmarks, observed carefully. Every monument on the island is more than a place to loot. It is a clue about the world that built it.
A lighthouse is supposed to tell you where you are.
Rust’s does something else.
It began as a small coastal landmark in 2014, was rebuilt into a far larger monument in 2016, and somehow ended up looking like a place that might already exist somewhere else — on a lonely rock, battered by weather, far from shore.
Military Tunnels looks military because of its name, Scientists, loot, and puzzle systems. But its structure tells a deeper story: cave routes, rail infrastructure, laboratory inserts, and later gameplay layers built onto an old underground dungeon.
Giant Excavator Pit is Rust’s broken Bagger: a Cold War-inspired industrial monument, PvP trap, resource machine, and possible failed copy of the Bagger 288.
Bandit Camp is Rust’s bayou-like swamp refuge: a Bandit world built around an abandoned dredge, with a strong visual connection to Oregon’s Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge.