What is the survival loop in Rust?

Eat, shelter, scout, repeat. Secure food and water before any side project.

How do I avoid dying to the environment?

Keep a known items source close to base and refill before you stray far.

Small and finished beats big and half-built. Expand once the basics are safe.

Survival in Rust is a routine. Eat, shelter, scout, repeat. The items below are the ones the routine keeps bringing you back to.

Food and water come first, always. A full stomach lets you do everything else, and the items near water are usually the safest to learn.

Build small and often. A quick roof beats a grand plan you never finish because the night arrived first.

Bandage (Items): Heal yourself or others with this bandage.
Anti-Radiation Pills (Items): Taking these pills will lower your radiation level.
Armor (Items): A Full list can be seen in Attire Armor is a system in Rust based on equipping particular items in the clothing slots ( by default, these are.
Animal Fat (Items): Fat from an animal.
Bear Trap (Items): see Snap Trap
12 Gauge Buckshot (Items): Ammunition for a Shotgun.
Assault Rifle (Items): High damage machine rifle.
5.56 Rifle Ammo (Items): Ammunition for a Rifle.
Apple (Items): An Apple.
Bear Meat (Items): Raw Bear Meat.
Battery - Small (Items): A Battery.
Bear Skull (Items): The Bear Skull is a resource item that is obtainable by looting the corpse of a dead bear.
Acoustic Guitar (Items): A type of instrument.
Barbed Wooden Barricade (Items): A wooden barricade with barbed wire, made of Wood and Metal Fragments.
Beancan Grenade (Items): Unreliable explosive device.
12 Gauge Slug (Items): Single large projectile for a Shotgun
Black Longsleeve T-Shirt (Items): Made popular by catburglers, french mimes and goths - this longsleeveed t-shirt features a stunning lack of color.

Track the items you depend on. When a source runs dry, you should already know the next one, not discover it mid-crisis.

Hatchet (Weapons): This tool is a must-have for any rust player.
Pickaxe (Weapons): A Pickaxe, useful for gathering ore from rocks.
Rock (Weapons): A Rock.
Bolt Action Rifle (Weapons): A high powered, highly accurate rifle.
Revolver (Weapons): A shoddy eight-shooter.
Eoka Pistol (Weapons): A primitive pistol that fires one Shotgun round at a time.
Pump Shotgun (Weapons): A Shotgun.
Assault Rifle (Weapons): High damage machine rifle.
Bone Knife (Weapons): Melee weapon crafted from bone and wood.
Salvaged Axe (Weapons): A high-yield resource gathering axe.
Salvaged Hammer (Weapons): A Hammer made from a bunch of other crap.
F1 Grenade (Weapons): Reliable explosive device.