Australia Template Map 1.0.0

The Australia Template Map is a Rust map template made from the real terrain of Australia, the only country that is also a whole continent. It is a land of extremes in scale: a vast, mostly arid interior ringed by coasts, with a long highland chain in the east.

A continent on one map

Australia is the flattest and driest inhabited continent. Its interior, the Outback, is dominated by deserts, plains and low plateaus. The Great Dividing Range runs down the eastern side, close to the coast, and the wetter, greener country lies mostly along the coasts. That pattern, an empty heart and a busy rim, is the template's defining feature.

How Australia plays in Rust

The template is rated at 85.4% buildable land, and its shape suggests a clear structure for a server.

• A coastline on every side, so boats, harbours and oil rigs can work from any direction.

• A huge arid centre for desert monuments, long sightlines and dangerous crossings.

• Eastern highlands for bases with natural cover and monuments that need elevation.

• Greener coastal belts where new players can settle away from the dry heart.

Put your most valuable monuments deep in the interior and players will have to cross open ground to reach them, which is exactly the kind of risk that makes a wipe memorable.

What you receive

• Australia's real elevation and topography on a 6,000 m map.

• Realistic splat and biome maps.

• No monuments, rivers, railways or caves to remove.

A topology map is deliberately not included. Edit the land as much as you like, then generate the topology in RustEdit; it is laid beneath the splat map, so errors are avoided.

Using the template

1. Download the .zip right after checkout and extract it.

2. Load the Australia .map in RustEdit.

3. Fill it with your monuments, roads, rivers and prefabs, and finish by generating the topology.

4. Save, host the file at a public URL and launch with +server.levelurl; expect a map wipe when you switch.

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