IGN shows you how to build and use a furnace in Rust. With this tool, you can smelt ores into usable items like metal fragments and craft gunpowder with refined sulfur.

Collect as many resources as possible until hunger or darkness sets in, then craft a wooden shelter and place it in an out-of-the-way corner by putting it in a quick-access slot and then selecting it.

Welcome to a new day in Rust! Life is hard in the multiplayer survival game (read our alpha review to find out why it's worth playing), but with the right knowledge, you can at least make it through a ...