Tarnished Crown
Rust Project Archive
This is where Tarnished Crown began. Explore the original Rust project's classes, factions and stories below. Looking for our standalone games? Discover Faction Wars or set sail in Ascent.
Rust and Minecraft servers are offline.
Rust and Minecraft servers are offline
Tarnished Crown Rust and Minecraft servers offline while we build the game in UE5. The game information below is preserved from the Rust project, not a promise of features in the standalone game.
Request access to the standalone game →Three Factions
Your faction determines your allegiances, territory, and enemies.
Ten Classes
Each with a unique skill tree, spell bar, and playstyle.
What Makes Us Different
Custom Skill Trees
Every class has a deep skill tree with 13–19 nodes across 5 tiers. Plus 6 common trees shared across all classes.
Enchanted Loot
Weapons and armor drop with random enchantments — Common through Epic rarity. Fire DoT, lifesteal, thorns, armor shred, and more.
NPC Territories
5 tiers (Wretched → Dread Lord), 13 archetypes, faction guards, road bandits.
8 World Bosses
Multi-phase fights with adds, enrage timers, and rare loot.
25 Quests
Hunt, slay, mine — Easy through Hard for credits and enchanted class weapons.
Medieval Only
No modern guns, no vehicles, no tech. Bows, swords, spells, and siege weapons. The Buccaneer is the one exception — pirates play by their own rules.
Your Progress Survives Every Wipe
Unlike vanilla Rust, your class level, skill tree, abilities, and attribute points carry over permanently. Only the map, buildings, and inventory reset. You never lose your character's power.
This means veteran players have real progression — and new players catch up faster each wipe.
- Class level & XP
- Skill tree unlocks
- Attribute points
- Class selection
- Map & buildings
- Inventory
- Faction choice
- Quest progress
From the Blog
Class spotlights, patch notes, and behind-the-scenes.
Be part of the next chapter
The standalone game is in early development. Tell us why you would like access.