RustoriaEvents

BaseInvaders Event Rules

Updated 27 Oct 2026

Please read all of the rules before signing up. If you're unsure about anything, open a ticket in the Base Invaders Discord.

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Event Schedule

  • Events are announced every Monday (or shortly after).
  • Events are held every Sunday.

Signing Up and Subbing

Who Can Play

  • You cannot take part if you have an active Rustoria.co ban.
  • Players with more than one Game or VAC ban are not allowed to play.
  • One Game or VAC ban is allowed, as long as it is more than 120 days old Any Game ban issued by EAC on an alt account is not allowed to play unless its over 365 days old.
  • Players caught using alts or getting around restrictions will be permanently banned.
  • You can appeal a ban by opening a ticket.

VPNs and Proxies

  • VPNs and proxies are not allowed.
  • If you need one, you can request a whitelist by opening a ticket at discord.gg/baseinvaders.

Names

  • Teams with an inappropriate name will be asked to change it.
  • Racist, homophobic or excessively toxic team or player names will get you banned.
  • Using a staff member's name instead of your own can get you removed from the event.
  • We encourage all players to use the same name every week.

Deadlines

  • Subbing closes 30 minutes before the event starts. This cannot be changed.
  • Every team is checked by hand. Teams are approved on Sunday, at least one hour before the event.

Game Rules

How the Winner Is Decided

  1. The team with the last standing Tool Cupboard wins.
  2. If more than one team or TC is left, the team with the most points wins.
  3. If two teams still tie, the prize pool is split.

Team Activity

More than 50% of your team must be online for the whole event. If not, your team is eliminated.

Server Settings

  • Custom loot tables
  • 20x gather rate
  • All blueprints provided
  • No workbench required

Grace Period – Allowed

  • Stealing and claiming helicopters, vehicles and horses. Staying in the driver's seat counts as claiming it.

Grace Period – Not Allowed

  • Any griefing of players or bases. For example, walling a player in, or blocking a base from being built with a vehicle or helicopter.
  • Placing a TC to claim an area where another player is building foundations. Once a team has built foundations, that area is theirs.
  • Damaging players in any way, including hitting or killing them with a vehicle or helicopter.

Not Allowed at Any Time

  • Cheating, scripting or abusing bugs. This will get you eliminated or blacklisted.
  • Racism, homophobia, excessive toxicity or anything done with serious malicious intent. This can get you muted, eliminated or blacklisted.
  • Alliances or helping other teams. Everyone involved gets a one-month blacklist.
  • Funnelling, inside or outside your base.
  • Walling yourself in.
  • Heli bombing (crashing a minicopter or scrap heli into players or bases to blow them up).
  • Putting weapons on unstashed nakeds to earn points when you kill them.

Other Rules

  • The scoreboard is final, unless there is video evidence of a rule break or a bug.
  • English only in Discord and in-game chat.

Building Rules

One Base Only

You may not build more than one base. This includes FOBs, raid bases and twig towers, and it applies during the PVP phase too.

You may place extra foundations with beds and boxes on top, as long as:

  • The foundations are connected to each other.
  • There is no more than one half-height difference between them.
  • No walls are placed on them, apart from high walls.

Tool Cupboard Placement

Your TC must be directly behind a door, window or ladder hatch. There must be a direct path to it that a player can get through, whatever the height.

Once the TC is destroyed, a player must be able to stand where it was without destroying anything else.

Allowed

  • A single window frame and window in front of the TC.
  • Replacing your TC during the grace period with the /destroy_tc command in-game.
  • Airlocks on gates.
  • A wall placed in front of a gate.

Not Allowed

  • Hiding your TC behind placeable objects.
  • Sealing off your TC. This will get you blacklisted from our events.
  • A shutter behind the TC's window.
  • Extending foundations past your external walls to stop others building.
  • Covering turrets with Christmas lights.
  • Bunker designs of any kind, including windows used as doors.

Limits Per Base

  • 1 compound layer (china walls count as a layer).
  • 1 layer of metal barricades behind the high external walls.
  • 1 auto turret.
  • 1 shotgun trap.
  • 1 flame turret.

Raiding and Defending

  • When part of a base is destroyed, a raid zone appears on the map as a red circle.
  • While the raid zone is up, defenders can earn up to 40 points. The longer the raid lasts, the more points they get. Kills are counted separately.
  • If less than 50% of a team remains during the PVP phase, the team and its TC are eliminated. The exception is if an opposing team already has direct access to their TC.
Raid defence points are still in beta. If you hit a bug or don't receive your points, record it with ShadowPlay and send the clip to the event manager.

Points

  • Killing a player – +1
  • Securing a Bradley crate – +3
  • Securing a Patrol Heli crate – +3
  • Hackable crate – +10
  • Defending a raid – up to +40 (beta)
  • Destroying an enemy TC – +40

Blacklisted Items

The following items cannot be used:

Weapons and Attachments

  • Silencer
  • HMLMG
  • M16A2
  • Double Barrel
  • 8x Scope
  • Bar Games shotgun trap

Explosives and Throwables

  • Satchels
  • F1 Grenades
  • Molotov Cocktails
  • Flashbangs
  • Smoke Grenades
  • Fireworks (all types)

Ammo

  • Incendiary 5.56 rifle ammo
  • Incendiary pistol ammo
  • Incendiary rockets

Traps and Deployables

  • Snap Traps
  • Land Mines
  • Spikes
  • Watch Towers
  • Computer Station

Armour

  • Heavy Plate Armour

Power

  • Solar Panels
  • Wind Turbines
  • All battery tiers (use a generator instead)

Streaming

  • You're welcome to stream our events.
  • It's your responsibility to protect yourself from stream sniping, for example with a stream delay and by keeping your TC out of view.
  • Stream sniping is not allowed and can get you banned.
  • Recognised streamers (content creators in our Discord) can open a ticket if they suspect stream sniping. You must include evidence.
  • To become a recognised streamer, open a ticket.
If you report stream sniping without having taken proper precautions, such as a stream delay and hiding your TC, the report will not be accepted and no punishment will be given.

Integrity

We expect everyone to respect the competitive integrity of our events. Anyone who doesn't will be removed. Examples include building a base that is extremely easy to raid, or roleplaying of any kind.

  • Play the event as you would in vanilla. We try, but we can't see everything. For example, don't leave furnaces outside or park helicopters on your roof.
  • A TC in the middle of your base is obvious. Try a less obvious spot that still follows the rules, such as a bigger airlock built into the design.
  • The event is still in beta, so bugs and glitches can happen. Please report them. Anyone caught abusing them will be punished severely.
  • Excessive arguing with, or disrespect towards, staff will lead to action such as a mute or disqualification.
  • Claiming to be cheating, even as a joke, can lead to a permanent blacklist.
Staff can remove, blacklist or mute players at any time, for any reason, without sharing the evidence.