Rust Character Lookup

The whole cast

Twenty six faces, and one of them is yours

Two genders, three body types each, and a handful of faces inside every one of them. Your Steam ID picks a body type, then a face inside it, and that pair is the character you get on every server.

Every portrait is a real account that drew that face, rendered the same way the lookup renders yours. The hair, the beard and the colour are that one account’s own draw and not the face’s, which is why the same face turns up bald on the next player.

Hair and beard both include a “none”, so bald and clean-shaven are draws like any other.

The method

Three steps, no randomness left

1. 01

   Your Steam ID becomes a seed

   Rust adds a fixed number to your 64-bit Steam ID and seeds Unity’s random generator with the sum. Each part of your look has its own fixed number.

2. 02

   One draw per feature

   From that seed the game takes a single value between 0 and 1. Gender, body type, face, hair and dye each get their own seed and their own draw.

3. 03

   The draw indexes a list

   The value is multiplied by the length of the game’s own asset list and rounded down. Same account, same list, same face, on every server, forever.

Questions

Common questions

Can I change my Rust character?

No. Rust has no character creator and no appearance reset. The look is computed from your Steam ID, so the only way to change it is a different account.

Is it the same on every server?

Yes, and it survives every wipe. Nothing about your appearance is rolled per server or per session, so other players see the same face on every server you join.

Does my Steam profile have to be public?

No. The character is derived from the Steam ID alone, with no call to Steam at all. A public profile only adds your name and avatar to the page.