The biggest confusion to the Rust achievements revolve around the early achievements that don't seem to trigger. The reason I found for is actually just based on the settings of the server. The achievements were setup as a a tutorial system and then enhanced for other tasks.

These are the achievements that are directly tied to the tutorial. If you join a server and you don't have these very basic tasks completed, then you can determine if the achievements will work if you see a tutorial at the top left when you join the server.

If you're hosting your own server, you can enable this by setting the server.official flag to true.

• Instruments DLC is not required, as long as any other player can craft the items for you.
  
• Sunburn DLC is not required, as long as any other player can craft the items for you.
  
• Voice Props DLC is required, you cannot use the dance gestures without it.

Collect Wood
Collect 100 Wood


See below.

Collect 700 Wood
Collect 700 Wood


Wood can be harvested by hitting trees with a harvesting tool such as the spawn rock or various axes. Trees have a red X when you harvest which denotes critical spots to hit to increase efficiency.

Collect 30 Cloth
Collect 30 Cloth


See below.

Collect 50 Cloth
Collect 50 Cloth


Cloth can be harvested from dead animals or picking up hemp plants that spawn in the world.

Collect 200 Stone
Collect 200 Stone


Stone are giant white boulders that have a shiny glint on it and can be harvested using the spawn rock or various pickaxes.

Collect 300 Metal Ore
Collect 300 Metal Ore


Similar to the stone achievement, metal ore are similar in shape and size but have a more rusted color.

Acquire 50 Low Grade Fuel
Acquire 50 Low Grade Fuel


Low grade fuel can be found in red barrels or by crafting using animal fat and cloth. Later on can be crafted using refineries and crude oil.

Destroy 10 Barrels
Destroy 10 Barrels


Barrels are often found in nodes laid across a road.

Save The Planet
Recycle 5 empty cans at a recycler


There are currently two types of cans in the game: cans of beans and cans of tuna. Both are easily found at the abandon supermarket. You'll want to recycle those empty cans at a recycler which is also available at various monuments including the supermarket.

This achievement is known to be buggy on unlock, so don't mind if it doesn't unlock immediately.

Collect 65 Scrap
Collect 65 Scrap


I won't include any specific scrap guide as the game is updated and balanced, those numbers will change. In any case, scrap can be obtained in two ways. You can always find them when looting the blue plastic trays with car components in them. Otherwise, you can recycle metal based products to get some good yields of scraps.

The crafting menu is set to Q by default and you can search up items to see what is required to make them. Due to possible changes in the future, I won't go into what items are particularly needed, but all items can be looked up on Rust Labs: https://rustlabs.com/

Craft Camp Fire
Craft a campfire


Place Camp Fire
Place a camp fire


Craft Sleeping Bag
Craft a Sleeping Bag


Place Sleeping Bag
Place a sleeping bag


Craft Burlap Headwrap
Craft a Burlap Headwrap


Craft Burlap Pants
Craft Burlap Pants


Craft Burlap Shirt
Craft a Burlap Shirt


Craft Stone Hatchet
Craft Stone Hatchet


Craft Stone Pickaxe
Craft Stone Pickaxe


Craft Spear
Craft a wooden spear


Craft Hunting Bow
Craft a Hunting Bow


Craft Arrows
Craft some Arrows


Craft a Machete
Craft a Machete


Craft a Nailgun
Craft a Nailgun


Craft Nailgun Nails
Craft Nailgun Nails

For most crafting blueprints, simply open up the craft menu and search for the items and see their requirements.
You can also check Rust Labs for their particular recipes: https://rustlabs.com/

Craft Building Plan
Craft a Building Plan


This item will allow you to build foundation, walls, roofing, flooring, etc. You cannot build in unusual terrains, ontop of roads, in monuments, or near tool cupboards (TCs) that you are not authorized on.

Construct Base
Construct a Base


Using the building plan, build 3 foundations.

Craft Hammer
Craft a Hammer


The hammer is used to upgrade, repair, and remove items you've built. Not every item placed can be removed. Base components such as foundation, walls, floors, etc can be demolished using the hammer for a short period of time.

Upgrade Base
Upgrade your base


Using the hammer and an already placed base component, look at the component until it's highlighted and hold right click to open up the hammer menu where you can upgrade to stronger materials such as wood, stone, metal, etc.

Craft Wooden Box
Craft a Wooden Box


Place Wooden Box
Place a Wooden Box

Can be placed in a base or on the ground.

Craft Wooden Door
Craft a Wooden Door


Place Wooden Door
Place a Wooden Door


Using a building plan, build some foundation or flooring. Then place a doorway ontop of it. After crafting a wooden door, place it in the doorway.

Craft a Furnace
Craft a Furnace


Place a Furnace
Place a Furnace

Can be placed on base components or on the ground.

Craft Lock
Craft a lock


Place Lock
Place a Lock


A lock can be placed on several things such as doors, chests, tool cupboards.

Lock the Lock
Lock the Lock

After placing a lock, look at the lock and hold right click and a lock menu should appear allowing you to lock the lock.

Craft Tool Cupboard
Craft a Tool Cupboard


Place Tool Cupboard
Place a tool Cupboard

A tool cupboard is the central piece of a base. It blocks off any building with a certain range of a base to prevent people from building to block your base. A base will also consume raw materials to maintain itself over a period of time so the cupboard must be stocked with those raw materials before it begins to start decaying. It also serves as identifiers for turrets that you build.

Craft a Workbench
Craft a Workbench


Place a Workbench
Place a Workbench

A workbench serves three purposes and has three different tiers.

1. Gives access to tech trees to allow players to learn blueprints. Each workbench tier contains a different tree. Researching requires scraps.
   
2. Allows crafting of specific items that require a specific tiered workbench. Must be in range.
   
3. Lowers the crafting time when in range. This affects the start timer, so you can start a craft near it then walk away and the timer will not be affected afterwards.

Craft a Research Table
Craft a Research Table


Place a Research Table
Place a Research Table

A research table allows players to take craftable items and create blueprints out of them using scraps. Using a workbench is nice, but there are some items that require a lot of scrap to work through the tech tree to get to.

Visit a Road
Visit a Road


As the achievement states, simply visit a road. This achievement has a delayed trigger, but as long as you clear the tutorial, you should be fine.

Equip Clothing
Equip 3 pieces of clothing


Works well with the burlap crafting achievements. Craft all the pieces and equip them in your inventory. Otherwise, you can find clothing from crates and boxes.

Kill an Animal
Kill an Animal


Find some wildlife and simply kill it. There are chickens, deer, wolves, and bears.

Skin an Animal
Skin an Animal


After killing the wildlife mentioned above, its corpse will remain. Hit it with any harvest tool until its condition is depleted. Knives are the most efficient.

Giddy Up!
Ride a horse for 1km


With the tech tree update, horses now spawn more commonly. Find one and ride it for a 1km. Alternatively, you can purchase a saddle at a ranch or barn and claim a horse and ride it then.

Glutton
Completely fill your food bar


Near rivers, you can often find a plethora of pumpkins and corn. This will easily fill up your food gauge.

Sealbreaker
Completely fill your hydration bar


Navigate to a river or lake and interact with the water and drink until you've filled the water gauge.

Research an Item
Research an Item

You'll need an item you can't craft, scraps, and a research table. A research table is craftable and has achievements for both crafting it and placing it. Easy items you can research include a lot of electrical switches and nodes which cost just 20 scraps.

Research tables also spawn in large monuments such as the Outpost, Airfield, Power Plant, etc.

Something of a scientist myself
Kill 5 Scientists

You'll find scientists randomly wandering around roads, but you can easily find them in specific monuments. The excavator and military tunnel are the two easiest accessible areas where you can farm scientists. Others include the oil rig monuments, but require a boat to get to.

I'm the Captain now
Reach the bridge of the Cargo Ship


Cargo Ship is special monument in the fact that it's not always available. Time to time, you'll see a large boat circling the island. You'll want to have a boat ready or scrap ready to buy a boat so you can drive up the cargo ship when it arrives.

The ship never stops, and you can access it by a ladder on the side of the ship. After that, you'll want to get to the top of the ship to the bridge.

On The Deck
Land a minicopter on an oil rig Helipad


A minicopter can be purchased from the Bandit Camp for 750 scraps. Then there are two oil rigs, small oil rig and large oil rig. Both have a helipad ontop of it. The best strategy for this is to have someone help you and clear out oil rig so you can land easily.

Note: You do not need the DLC, but you need someone with the DLC to give you the items.

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First Notes
Play your first instrument


This achievement is known to not unlock immediately but you can do when you do musical maestro to force the trigger.

Musical Maestro
Play every instrument


The Acoustic Guitar is not a DLC instrument and must be found in the world. The rest can be crafted by anyone with the DLC.

You'll need to play the following instruments:

• Acoustic Guitar (Must be found first)
  
• Wheelbarrow Piano (Must be placed)
  
• Junkyard Drum Kit (Must be placed)
  
• Xylobones (Must be placed)
  
• Plumber's Trumpet
  
• Sousaphone
  
• Cowbell
  
• Canbourine
  
• Jerry Can Guitar
  
• Shovel Bass
  
• Pan Flute

Getting the band together
Join a team of at least 4 people where everyone has instruments equipped


Setup a team and simply have all members have instruments equipped.

Note: You do not need the DLC, but you need someone with the DLC to give you the items.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1353060/Rust__Sunburn_Pack/


Paparazzi
Take a photo of another player


Craft the Instant Camera, equip it, and take a picture of another player. For some reason, this only counts for the first picture in the camera so you can't use the same camera.

Sunglasses at Night
Equip a pair of sunglasses after the sun goes down


Craft some sunglasses. It can be glasses from the DLC or other sunglasses such as the Purple Sunglasses given from previous Twitch drops or the Chalk sunglasses. When it's night time, that's when you need to equip them. Does not trigger if you already have them equipped when night time comes.

Radical
Splash another player with a Water Pistol while that player is irradiated


The target needs to have the Water Gun equipped. The player needs to have the water pistol. Go to an area with radiation and simply shoot the target who is building up radiation while they have the water gun equipped.

Liquidator
Get a kill using a water gun.


See No Pressure.

Soaked
Soak another player above the damage threshold using a water gun.


See No Pressure.

No Pressure
Get a kill with a super soaker pumped at the lowest pressure.


Doing this achievement will always trigger the other two achievements, so it's best to just do this achievement. Craft two water guns. The target must be wielding a water gun to build up wetness from a water gun and eventually take damage.

Target can be on the same team. Target should not be wearing anything that helps with wetness, naked works well. You can build a campfire and use it to take the target's hp to low to make this go faster. Get it to 10 or less health.

The water gun lets you build pressure with R, but make sure you never go over 1 pump. Pump once, shoot all of the water until it stops, then repeat that. Once the target goes over the wetness threshold, then they will begin to take damage.

Cool Kids Club
Be in a team where every team member is riding a Boogie Board or Inner Tube (minimum 4 members)

Craft a pool, an Above Ground Pool will fit everyone. Then craft a total of 4 boards/tubes (can be a mix of anything). Fill the pool with water then place the tubes/boards into the pool.

Make sure everyone is in the same team and have the members mount the tubes/board in the pool.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1670430/Rust__Voice_Props_Pack/

In order to do the 2 dance achievements, the DLC is required.

Bad Neighbour
Use a megaphone while in another player's Tool Cupboard radius.


The megaphone can be crafted, then simply go to an area with someone else's Tool Cupboard and use the megaphone and speak into the microphone.

Full Collection
Play an instrument while floating in an Inner Tube while listening to a Boom Box play a radio stream

You can use a small paddling pool, a tube, a boom box, then any instrument. Make sure your boom box is playing a radio stream and not a cassette.

I can no longer see
Stare into a laser light for 30 seconds.

You'll need a power source, and a laser light. Laser light can be crafted. Ideally, place it on the ground, hook it up with power, then stand on top of it and look down into it.

I should buy this Soundtrack
Listen to the Rust soundtrack from a Boom Box for 30 seconds

Either make a Boom Box or Portable Boom Box and play the Rust Sound Track. It should pop up automatically after 30 seconds.

Like Nobody's Watching
Dance near a playing Boom Box on an active Disco Floor.


Hook up the boom box with power, then output the audio of the boom box into at least two dance floors. Then hit b to gesture and use one of the 3 dance gestures: Twist, Cabbage Patch, Raise the Roof. The achievement only checks when a new song starts, so just keep dancing.

DLC is required for this achievement.

On the Record
Record another player speaking onto a Cassette.


Craft a cassette player and a cassette. Place the cassette into the player, then right click to start recording. Simply have someone talking nearby while it records.

Party Boat
Dance with 2 other players at the front of the Cargo Ship.


All three players must have the DLC to dance, head to the bow of the ship and everyone can do a dance.

The Zipline and Rail update introduces achievements for past updates from August 2021 til March 2022.

- You will need a group of 6 players for the Rust Air and Battle Bus achievements.
- There are additional multiplayer achievements requiring 5 additional players (not all at once)
- No additional DLCs are required

Apex Predator
Kill 3 sharks with a speargun


You can craft a speargun at a level 1 workbench. Then craft a some spears for your speargun. Spears move extremely slow and the speargun can only be used underwater. Each shark will take 2 spears to kill.

Sharks can be found near sunken wrecks or if a player is bleeding in the water.

Buckle Up
Start a fully repaired car with a full set of T3 engine parts


There's a hidden requirement in that the vehicle must have all of its modular slots filled, using two rear modules will suffice. Then add High Quality Valves, Pistons, Sparkplugs, Carburetor and Crankshaft to the vehicle as well as some low grade fuel. Make sure each part of the vehicle is repaired to max and then start up the car.

It's Honest Work
Plant a different seed in every slot in a Large Planter Box


Craft a Large Planter Box, then you will need 9 different plants to place in the planter box.

Seeds:

• Black Berry
  
• Blue Berry
  
• Green Berry
  
• Red Berry
  
• White Berry
  
• Yellow Berry
  
• Corn
  
• Potato
  
• Pumpkin
  
• Hemp

Pro Angler
Catch one of every fish


You can obtain a fishing rod through quests at the fishing village, purchased at the fishing village, or crafted.

Waste Not, Want Not
Recycle 10 cars at Junkyard


At the Junkyard monument, there's a magnet crane that can pickup cars and you can throw cars into the recycler. Simply take 10 vehicles and throw them into the recycler, you can drop the white trucks in the junkyard as well.

Arctic Speed
Acquire a snowmobile in an Artic Research Base


Check your map and confirm that there is an Arctic Base monument in the map. If so, you will need a blue card to open up the large containers, one of which contains the snowmobile. Simply get on the snowmobile for the achievement.

Mission Accomplished
Complete 5 missions for NPC's


The main two quest givers I leveraged were at the Bandit Camp, the lumberjack has a series of 3 quests: retrieve a bottle of vodka, harvest 2000 wood, and eliminate 3 animals. The other is the fisherman at the fishing village who requests you to find his tackle box, catch 3 fish, and harvest oil for him. Note that you can do these across any servers which means quests can be repeated.


Terror in the Deep
Travel to an underwater lab with a submarine


Check your map and make sure underwater Labs are visible along the edges of the map, similar to the oil rig. If you don't see it, then the server map was generated without the underwater labs. You can buy a submarine from the fishing villages and simply enter the lab through a moon pool. You must be the driver, and you must have drive it from the surface of the ocean.


Thread the Needle
Land a Minicopter on the Cargo Ship


Couple things here, you do not have to successfully land a minicopter on the cargo ship, you also do not need to be the driver either. Crashing the minicopter on the cargo ship will work if it comes to it.

Heavy Industry
Activate the Excavator


Make sure to bring Diesel Fuel to the Giant Excavator Site. In the middle, place the diesel fuel in the giant tank, then press the button on the machine up the stairs closeby.

On Track
Kill 10 Tunnel Dwellers while on a moving work cart


On the map, there are train station icons which gains access to the tunnels. You will need low grade fuel to operate the work cart. At the bottom, you will be at a tunnel platform and work carts tend to spawn nearby. Once on, simply drive the cart around to other platforms while taking out the tunnel dwellers who are armed and wearing orange suits and gas masks.

Battle Bus
Drive a modular car with 5 passengers


As the description suggests, get a vehicle with two rear passenger modules to add 4 additional seats to a car. Everyone in the vehicle with get the achievement.

Rust Air
Pilot a Scrap Transport Helicopter with 5 passengers


As the description suggests, have 5 other people within the transport heli. Only the person who is flying gets the achievement.


Smooth Sailing
Travel 3KM with a companion in a Kayak


As it says, you'll need to travel 3KM which takes around 15-20minutes to do. Make sure you both have a paddle and when paddling, just have one person paddle with left and the other paddle with right and you'll just go straight infinitely.


Big Brother
Watch another player through a CCTV camera


You'll need a computer station and a CCTV camera with the camera hooked up to power. Give the camera an id then enter that id in the computer station. Then you can view the camera and if you see a player, it should trigger.

Friendly Neighbour
Wave at 5 different players


This is wildly difficult to trigger. But jumping around public servers and heading over to Outpost and Bandit Camp is a viable strategy and then wave at everyone a bunch of times and hope it triggers. They do NOT have to wave back.

Additionally, you can rejoin the server and wave at the same players over and over. Works best if they die in between these waves.

In my tests, a Barren Map hosted server did not allow me trigger any waves. But a Procedural Map hosted server did with the same setting.

Death from Above
Kill another player with the MLRS


MLRS is a vehicle that spawns in the desert. You will need at least 1 MLRS rocket and then an MLRS Aiming Module; both of which can be found in high tier crates. Once you've obtained those, head to the desert military base where you can find the MLRS.

Insert rockets in the rear, then enter the vehicle and insert the aiming module right of the screen. In the screen, right click an area to aim, as it finishes aiming, exit the aiming and look at the red button on the right to fire the rockets.

High Roller
Win 3 rounds of poker at Bandit Camp


You will need at least 1 other player to play against you in poker at the Bandit Camp. The other player can just fold until you win 3 times.

Fresh Graduate
Complete the Tutorial Island


To enable, the tutorial, make sure you go to Options > Reset Tutorial if needed. If it says Start Tutorial, then you're good to go. Then join an Official Server with a Tutorial tag on it.


Tasks:

1. Forage 400 Wood
   
2. Forage 400 Stone
   
3. Craft Stone Hatchet
   
4. Craft Stone Pickaxe
   
5. Return to Survivor
   
6. Grab wood from the Chest to the right of the survivor
   
7. Craft Building Plan
   
8. Build the foundations, walls, doorway, and roof with floor pieces
   
9. Return to Survivor
   
10. Harvest 30 Cloth
    
11. Craft the sleeping bag, wooden door, key lock, tool cupboard and place them
    
12. Craft a Hammer
    
13. Grab wood from the Chest to the right of the survivor
    
14. Upgrade the base to wood with the hammer
    
15. Add wood to the tool cupboard enough to maintain upkeep for 24hrs
    
16. Return to Survivor
    
17. Craft a wooden spear
    
18. Kill 2 chickens and harvest 2 chicken breasts
    
19. Craft a campfire
    
20. Place the campfire and turn it on and start cooking the chicken breasts and eat the chicken breasts
    
21. Return to Survivor; Oh Nice.
    
22. Loot yourself; Return to Survivor
    
23. Craft clothes, 3 bandages, and a bow and arrow
    
24. Use a bandage, kill the bear, harvest fat
    
25. Return to Survivor
    
26. Craft 50 low grade fuel, a furnace, mine 100 metal ore and break some barrels
    
27. Craft 10 metal fragments at the furnace, and grab the 90 in the chest next to the survivor
    
28. Craft a Workbench and place it
    
29. Return to Survivor
    
30. Grab materials from the chest, craft a paddle and kayak
    
31. Return to Survivor
    
32. WARNING: DO NOT GET IN THE KAYAK. Place the Kayak in the Ocean off the docks.
    
33. Head up to the lighthouse, go around the back through the broken fence then turn around. Crouch under the pieces of wood on the crates to find a box.
    Pew Pew
    Find the hidden Revolver on the Tutorial Island
    
    
    Next to the lighthouse is a hidden crate with the pistol inside. It is recommended to pick it up after you've completed the objective for destroying barrels and before entering the kayak, otherwise it can soft lock the tutorial.
    
34. Head to the Kayak and paddle away