Rust: Electricity by solar panel - how to electrify your base

Electricity is one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind. You can also take advantage of this in Rust. Solar panels are particularly popular, and we explain the basics.

Eternal sunshine? With batteries, your solar panels become really effective.

It's easier to live in Rust with electricity - and solar panels are a common solution.

Solar power in Rust: The solar panel as a foundation

The solar panel is currently only available in one version in Rust. This can produce up to 20 units of electricity. To make it, you need 25x High Quality Metal.

• Once built, place the solar panel in a place with as much sun as possible. Shady places are to be avoided.
• Per cable tool (once 5x High-quality metal) then connect the solar panel to other objects such as a ceiling lamp.
• It is advisable, however, to first connect the solar panel to a storage tank. After all, at night there is no sun, so for a few hours no electricity is generated. With a battery, your base remains supplied.
• For this it is important that during the day a surplus of electricity is generated, otherwise the battery will not be charged. For starters, therefore, a setup with two solar collectors is recommended, which are brought together by source connector and then connected to the battery.
• From the battery, the current then flows to the target objects.

Due to the large arsenal of power switches, quite advanced layouts are also possible here. AND switches, blockers, timers, splitters and more allow you to perfectly customize the circuit to the need, even if this requires fiddling. However, this is part of the fun of the game, not to mention the sense of achievement when the whole base is wired up and working at the push of a button.