Temporal stability

Temporal Stability is a game mechanic that measures how close the player is to the Rust World. It is represented through a blue gear icon above the player's hotbar, and the less blue area there is the more temporally unstable the player is. As it gradually dips, different effects start happening to the player, with monster spawns becoming more frequent. If it drains completely, the player enters the Rust World.

Restoring Temporal Stability

Temporal Stability can be restores through the user of a temporal gear. These are either acquired through killing drifters or through trading. To restore temporal stability, equip a temporal gear in your off hand and a knife in your taskbar. While having the knife active, hold right mouse button. The player will perform a slashing motion with the knife, including a hurt sound. Keep right mouse button clicked until the follow up animation of the gear pressed to your body appears, and a blue temporal particle effect on the screen. Otherwise, the player will get hurt but not use up the gear or receive the effect.
Please keep in mind that using a temporal gear in this way will destroy the temporal gear, damage the player for 2 HP and only recover about 28% of your temporal stability.

Another way to restore temporal stability is simply by killing drifters. Stronger drifters restore more temporal stability.

Temporal Storms

Temporal storms are a weather pattern that by default occurs roughly every 10 days. During these storms, it is treated as though the player has low temporal stability, with creatures able to spawn anywhere around the player as long as there is a spawnable surface (i.e. slabs will prevent spawns).

Surviving a Temporal Storm

There are a few different ways to survive a temporal storm if you are not ready to fight your way through one.

Drifter Trap

Digging a moat around yourself that is more than 2 blocks deep so you are left standing on a pillar allows you to trap drifters for easy killing later on.

Hiding in a Box

Hiding in a box, such as your cellar, and slabbing the floor is a good way to survive as drifters can not spawn on slabs.

Pillaring

Stacking on a lot of blocks and pillaring high prevents drifters from being able to reach you.

Unstable Regions

In the world there exists regions which are more temporally unstable than the surroundings. In these areas, a player's temporal stability will drain much faster, and they will be subject to more dangers. These are a lot more common underground, the deeper the player is, the more temporally unstable the underground is likely to be.

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