Free Rust minimap & Rust+ desktop app for Windows — live team tracking, event alerts and a premium shop scanner. Built on the official Rust+ Companion API — undetectable by EAC.
A free Rust minimap and Rust+ desktop overlay with a live map, team tracking, death markers and event alerts. Premium adds an automatic shop scanner with AI giveaway detection. Built on Facepunch's official Rust+ Companion API — never touches the game client, undetectable by EAC and VAC.
Hover any notification on the right — the matching banner appears under the minimap, exactly as it shows up in the live overlay.
Catches vending-machine giveaways the moment they list.
Shop Sniper watches every vending machine on the server. The instant somebody lists an AK for 5 scrap, a rocket for 1 wood, or HQM at half price — an alert drops under your minimap with a sound cue.
Best setup: pre-position at Outpost, Bandit Camp or Fishing Village with Rust+ paired and the buy hotkey ready. Alert fires, you click the listing, you grab the loot. On a busy server at peak hours we've seen this fire several times per half-hour.
First eyes on every fresh vending machine.
The moment a player places a vending machine and lists items, MapMonster shows you the full price list — items, costs, grid square — in a single banner. Players setting up new shops often misjudge the market. Early-game pricing is chaos.
A green pip drops on your minimap at the exact grid square. Walk over, screenshot the prices, decide whether to buy or beat the seller to a better deal across the map.
When a price drops, you know first.
MapMonster watches every known shop for changes. Re-stocks, price drops, slot rotations — every change fires an alert. The juiciest listings usually appear when a shop owner re-lists in a hurry and miskeys a price.
A blue pip flashes on the minimap, and a banner shows exactly what changed: new price, old price, item, grid.
Cargo, Heli, CH-47 — instantly mapped.
Every map event Facepunch's official API exposes shows up as a live icon on your minimap and triggers a colored banner the moment it spawns. Same data the official Rust+ mobile app shows — just sitting on your desktop, hands-free.
Cargo Ship route is updated live as it moves. Patrol Helicopter spawn warning. CH-47 + Locked Crate. Bradley APC at the launch site. Everything.
Last known grid square — in 1 second.
When any teammate's status flips to dead in the Rust+ team API, their last known position drops a red skull marker on your minimap and fires a red banner. Recover the body, plan the revenge raid, know who's holding whose gun.
The cross stays on the minimap for 60 seconds — long enough to backtrack and recover the body across the map. Premium users can change the duration in app settings.
Pick a resource on the right — the AI heatmap shows where it's densest and plots the best farm loop. Real scan data, recomputed live.
Real AI scan · live in the app
Toggle resources to recompute the heatmap and farm route
Three steps. The same data Facepunch's own mobile app shows — visualized as a desktop overlay.
In Rust, open the in-game menu (Esc) and click the Rust+ button — then confirm in the official Rust+ mobile app. That's it — you're now plugged into Facepunch's API.
When you sign in, MapMonster picks up your Rust+ pairing automatically and starts polling team positions, events, and shops read-only — same as your phone, just on your desktop.
A small always-on-top window renders your minimap over Rust — teammates, events and (with Premium) shop alerts, all live.
Every line on the left is included in the free download. Premium unlocks the right column.
| Feature | Free | Premium · $5/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Always-on-top minimap overlay | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time teammate positions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Death markers with grid coords | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cargo / Heli / CH-47 / Crate alerts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zoom, hotkey, EN/RU UI | ✓ | ✓ |
| All vending machines on the map | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search any item across all shops + best prices | ✓ | ✓ |
| Player Checker — Steam ID lookup (VAC & game bans, hours, K/D) | 2 / day | 25 / day |
| Alerts for newly placed shops | — | ✓ |
| Price-change alerts | — | ✓ |
| Pay With — reverse search (what can I buy) | — | ✓ |
| Shop Sniper — AI-powered giveaway detection | — | ✓ |
| Map-flash — auto-navigation to loot grid | — | ✓ |
| Auto-broadcast new shops to team chat | — | ✓ |
| Profit Trades — vending machine arbitrage finder | — | ✓ |
| AI resource map scan — server-wide resource heatmap | — | ✓ |
Same category as the official mobile app from Facepunch. We don't touch the game client. There's nothing for anti-cheat to detect.
The Rust+ Companion API is the same data feed Facepunch's own app uses, and dozens of community tools have safely used it for years.
Start free. Upgrade when you want the shop scanner.
Quick answers to what most players ask before installing.
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