Getting ready to apply
Clans on RustHub can ask for a few things with an application — a Steam profile they can actually read, your Rust hours, a BattleMetrics id. Every one of them is a public profile setting or a public link. None of it is a password, none of it costs anything, and most of it takes about a minute.
The reason clans ask is worth saying plainly: they are handing a stranger base access and a TC slot. What they are buying with these requirements is the ability to check a claim instead of taking it on faith — and that cuts your way too, because an applicant who can be checked is worth more than one who cannot.
Everything a clan can ask for
Each clan picks its own list — you will see theirs on their application form. Open any of these for the steps.
Steam profile VerifiedWithout it there is nothing to check — no hours, no account age, no ban record. It is the single most useful thing on an application.How
- 1Open your Steam profile: steamcommunity.com → your name (top right) → View my profile.
- 2Copy the address bar — it looks like steamcommunity.com/id/yourname or steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656…
- 3In the Steam desktop app there is no address bar: right-click anywhere on your profile page and choose "Copy Page URL".
- 4Paste the whole link into the form. A bare SteamID64 (17 digits, starts 7656) works too.
Link Steam once on your RustHub profile and every application after this one fills the field in for you.
Public Steam profile VerifiedA private profile means the clan is asked to take your hours, your friends and your library on trust. Public for ten minutes answers all of it.How
- 1Go to steamcommunity.com and open Edit Profile (your avatar → Profile → Edit Profile).
- 2Open Privacy Settings on the left.
- 3Set "My profile" to Public.
- 4Steam saves privacy changes as you make them — there is no save button.
Private is not the same as suspicious, and ban checks work either way — Valve answers those even for private profiles. It is the hours and the friends list that vanish. You can set it back after you are accepted.
Public Rust hours VerifiedGame Details is a separate setting from the profile. With it off, your hours are the one number hidden while everything else is on show — which is exactly the thing clans read as hiding.How
- 1Same page: Edit Profile → Privacy Settings.
- 2Set "Game details" to Public.
- 3Untick "Always keep my total playtime private, even if users can see my game details" — this is the one almost everyone misses.
- 4Give Steam a minute to catch up, then hit "Check my accounts" on the application to confirm your hours now show.
If your hours are genuinely low, showing them is still the better move: a clan that would take 300 hours will not take a hidden number.
BattleMetrics player ID VerifiedIt shows which servers you actually play and how long you last in a wipe. Steam hours say you own the game; this says how you play it.How
- 1Open battlemetrics.com and search your in-game Rust name in the top search box, then open the Players results.
- 2Rust servers report the name you play under, so look for the profile whose server history looks like yours.
- 3Open your profile and copy the URL — battlemetrics.com/players/1234567. The number on the end is your player id.
- 4Cannot find yourself? Open a server you play on, go to its Players tab, and search your name there instead.
Nobody can look this up from your Steam ID — BattleMetrics only exposes that link to server owners with RCON. That is why the clan has to ask you for it. Link it once with /me in Discord and it fills itself in from then on.
Working micRust raids are called out loud. A clan asking for this is telling you the roster talks.How
- 1Tick the mic box on the application.
- 2If it is complicated — push-to-talk only, cannot talk after a certain hour, housemates — say so in your pitch rather than leaving it out. Clans mind being surprised far more than they mind the mic.
RegionA clan that wipes on EU servers needs to know before it reads the rest.How
- 1Put your region in — EU, NA, OCE, AS.
- 2Add your timezone next to it so raid times mean something.
When you playMost applications die here rather than on hours. Say when you are actually online.How
- 1Write it plainly: "weeknights after 7, most of the weekend".
- 2Be honest about wipe day — clans plan around who can be there for the first six hours.
A written pitchThe part a leader actually reads. A few honest lines beat a paragraph of claims.How
- 1What you have played and roughly how long.
- 2What you are good at, and what you are still learning — farm, roofs, raiding, electricity.
- 3What you want from a clan, and what would make you leave one.
Link your Steam and BattleMetrics accounts to RustHub and every application form fills those fields in for you — and your Rust playtime starts earning scrap on tracked servers. Both are public profile ids, not logins. There is no password field anywhere on this site and there never will be.
- Your Steam account age, hours in Rust, friend count and public library.
- VAC and game bans — Valve answers those even for a private profile.
- Bans other Rust communities have issued against your Steam id, and previous Steam names.
- Which Rust servers you play, and how long you stay on a wipe, if you gave a BattleMetrics id.
- Your history on this hub — clan, wipe rosters, bounties.
- Your email, your password, your payment details — we never have them.
- Your Discord messages, your DMs, or which servers you are in.
- Anything behind a login, on any site.
- Your real name or location, unless you put it on a public profile yourself.
Every check reads public pages only, and every one of them is recorded against the person who ran it.
Say it first, in your own words, in the pitch box. A seven-year-old game ban on a different game, a server ban from an admin dispute, a fresh account because you were hacked — all of that is survivable, and all of it reads far worse when a leader finds it after you did not mention it. The check exists to tell them what to ask about, not to convict you: every flag it raises has an innocent explanation, and the report says so in as many words.