Helicopter tips

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In this section I'll explain howevery day on every servers but not by you. Basically you must prepare yourself, have a little team with you and have some luck as well.The helicopter is a very important part of Rust's gameplay, but why so ?You want to have your house located between two of the helicopter's patrol checkpoints and if possible as close as possible to it's spawn point.The helicopter is a server wide event, basically everyone is on their tower on the server trying to shoot it from afar so it comes to them. Also, when the helicopter is downed, people generally tend to try to steal it from the team who destroyed it, so you can sayIt's actually worth to loot the helicopter (even heard it was worth a lot of xp ? I will confirm this soon), you get 4 random crates, you can find several things in there : targeting computer, weapons (including M249), weapon mods, 9mm and 5,56 ammos, rockets and C4.Basically you only do it for the rockets and the C4 is the little cherry on the top of the cake. The ammos are good as well, always better than to have to waste gunpowder to craft them, but that's all, the other contents of the crates is pretty useless... Also you can mine the helicopter once it's not burning anymore to get ~20 high quality ore.The loot of the helicopter is a joker card that(you can down an helicopter the evening of the wipe, even with the XP system if you're motivated enough) and- You want to make a stone tower (at least 2x2 but I prefer 3x3 so I can put the ladder hatch in the middle and shoot trough it) with at least 6 to 8 of height to be able to shoot comfortably and an access to the roof. It would be nice to have your tower surrrounded by water.You needaround your tower so you don't have to stop shooting at the helicopter.You want to puton your windows (trust me, it's the best for it). You can put iron bars as well to protect yourself from raiding players but it may disturb your shootings at the helicopter.- You want to put a cupboard in the tower and have. Every other guysbe allowed on it. The point is :- Of course you'll want some armor, a weapon and some stuff to heal yourself. I personnally usually destroy the helicopter solo with : 1 bolt, 90 normal 5.56 ammo, 3 syringe kits and a few bandages, food can work also.- So the helicopter just spawned (it generally takes 2h30 or three in-game nights), get on the roof of your tower and wait for it to get closer.. Get back inside the tower and be ready to welcome it at your windows.- The helicopter is here, it is circling your base clockwise most of the time.You want to show yourself at the window so the helicopter shoots at you,and this is at this exact time that you shoot it.Just repeat theses steps until it is down.- You got killed by the helicopter and your bed is in the same tower but under another cupboard which you are allowed to...even tough you are dead and you don't want to get rockets on your base : it deals damages and eventually allows strangers to get in while you're destroying the helicopter.- Don't shoot the body of the helicopter, it's useless. People told me they do it this way with explosive rounds but what's the point of wasting more materials on these bullets when you want the helicopter to actually be worth ?- You want to, so destroy it when it's coming above the water.- You basically got three options :The helicopter crashed in the water :the crate aren't on fire, just dive as fast as you can to loot everything.The helicopter crashed near the water, on the shore :take water buckets and splash the water on the crates, the crates will still be on fire but the buckets allows you to push the crates into the water.The helicopter crashed too far from water (40 meters is already too far for water buckets) :hope you got some friends with you, you must(5 ?). Then you must loot the crates and get back home.- You can also pickaxe the downed helicopter to gather metal fragments, high quality metal and charcoal. You have to wait for it to cool down tough (thanks Sonik_90 [PL] for noticing I didn't say it).