The Ultimate Oxum’s Gas Station Guide For Rust
Oxum’s Gas Station, one of Rust’s smaller monuments, is a treasure trove of resources for players. Nestled by a road, this abandoned station offers a plethora of loot, making it an ideal spot to kickstart your adventure during a wipe. This guide meticulously explores the various sections of the monument, the loot available, tactical insights, and a few handy tips to maximize your loot haul.
Overview Of Oxum’s Gas Station
Oxum’s Gas Station is an entry-tier monument known for its straightforward layout. Its location next to a road makes it an easily accessible spot for players to gather crucial supplies such as food, crates, car parts, and tools. Very similar to Mining Outpost but with many other advantages and disadvantages
Sectional Highlights
The Oxum’s Gas Station is segmented into a few areas, each including different benefits and loot:
- Office: Houses a military crate and a green card on the desk, unlocking access to higher-tier monuments.
- Storefront: A rich source of food and car part containers to replenish supplies and gather materials.
- Roof: Home to Brown Crates and a Food Crate, albeit exposed to threats from afar, and if lucky you’ll see a green crate.
- Outside Area: Discover scattered Brown Crates and car part containers, including a crate nestled within a fenced area.
- Garage: A conduit to the cave and the location of the Recycler that also includes a vehicle parts loot box.
- Storage Room: A potential Brown Crate spawn, additional food, and a ladder for the only roof access point.
- Cave: A Brown Crate with loot variety based on luck serves as a potential early-game boost.
Tactical Knowledge
Navigating Oxum’s requires a blend of tactical foresight due to its multiple entry points and skirmish potential:
- Roof Control: Seizing control of the roof offers a high-ground advantage and diverse exit strategies, curbing the attackers to a singular entry point. There is only 1 way on the roof but multiple ways down.
- Cover Utilization: The debris surrounding the monument provides cover, aiding in stealthy advancements and tactical positioning against other players.
- Clearing Recycler: Most of the time players will always make their rounds to the recycler, approaching from that angle may be the best to have the best chance the monument is clear.
Utilities
For a smaller monument, this definitely packs quite a few benefits and utilities, here’s what we have available:
- Recycler: Located in the garage, essential for breaking down unwanted items into useful resources. Approach softly to avoid anyone inside hearing you nearby!
- Green Card: Acquired from the office, enabling access to other high-tier monuments.
- Telephone booth: Located on the bathroom side of the gas station you can call any fellow player.
- Light Switches: Located in the garage and the storage room these two switches allow anyone to turn on/off the lights inside of this monument.
- Hobo Barrel: Debatably even a utility, but located outside in the wide-open view in the front of the garage you can cook up a steak if you prefer and stay warm!
Tips
This monument is quite a simple one, however, there are some very uncommon elements and tips that may give you that much of an advantage the next time you visit it!
Camping and Hiding Spots
This monument offers very easy access as it lacks radiation similar to Mining Outpost and others so all variations of players visit this monument, especially to get a quick recycle session in. So there are many cheeky play styles here and many different types of hiding spots and more! Here’s a gallery featuring as many as we could gather!
Best Descrete Hiding/Defensive Spot
Frequently Asked Question
We aim to cover every aspect possible within this article so we’ve researched as many questions as we could find regarding Oxum’s Gas Station in order to give you short and concise answers if possible.
- How to get on top of Oxum’s Gas station?
- Once inside make your way to the backmost part of the building inside of the storage room, you’ll find a stack of boxes and then the ladder just above that which you can use to get on top of the roof!
- Does Oxums Gas Station have a recycler?
- Yes, inside of the garage you will find a recycler.
- Where is the Oxum’s Gas Station Located?
- The Oxum’s Gas Station in Rust will always be next to the road network inland, however, its exact location remains random due to the maps being procedurally generated but generally, you can find one quickly nearby if you look at your map.
- Who is Oxums in Rust?
- There’s not enough concrete information on who Oxums is, or what it is, unfortunately.
Callouts for Navigation
Effective callouts simplify monument navigation and team coordination, here are the most commonly used terms:
- Truck
- Recycler
- Fuel Pumps
- Ladder Room
- Roof
- Garage
Aerial View
Building Restriction Distance
Similar to all other monuments, you aren’t able to build inside of, or near the gas station. This ensures a less likely chance of players abusing it’s mechanics such as surrounding it with walls and blocking it off. Below is a visual for reference:
Custom Gas Stations
The mapping community has made several custom variations of gas stations that are publicly available on our site!
Conclusion
Oxum’s Gas Station is a compact yet loot-rich monument that offers a fair blend of loot, utilities, and tactical gameplay. A thorough understanding of its layout, loot spots, and camping spots can significantly boost your looting efficiency and overall gameplay experience in Rust. Whether venturing solo or with a team, Oxum’s Gas Station stands as a worthwhile spot to check out.
If you’ve found this guide useful or wish to view other monuments, consider checking out our recent Mining Outpost article as well!
