Rust Minecraft Invasion

Rust Minecraft Invasion

A local survival crossover: Modern Warfare 2’s Rust map and weapons against a crowd of Minecraft mobs, including Ender Dragons, Withers and Wardens.

Download the Apple silicon Mac build · Release downloads · Source build

This is an experimental single-player mode built on 2010 Rust Rewrite Mashup, which builds on IW4L. It is a standalone native runtime that reads assets from a game installation you own. Call of Duty, Minecraft and other original game assets are not bundled.

Play on an Apple silicon Mac

Requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon, and the English Windows PC files for Modern Warfare 2 (2009), including the base game and multiplayer data. The 2022 game and Campaign Remastered are different products and cannot supply this map data. A folder installed through Steam/CrossOver is suitable. No Skyrim files are needed.

1. Download the macOS-arm64.zip asset from Releases and extract it.
2. Move Rust Minecraft Invasion.app to Applications, then open it. The app opens a launcher; it does not start a match.
3. Click Choose MW2 Folder and select the folder containing main/ and zone/english/mp_rust.ff.
4. Click Prepare Files. The game downloads the pinned Minecraft resources directly from Mojang and checks their hashes. This can take several minutes. No game window opens during preparation.
5. Click Open Game Menu → Create Game → Rust Invasion → Rust, start the match, choose Intervention Quickscope, and select Equip.

The Mac build is ad-hoc signed, not Apple-notarized. If macOS blocks the downloaded app, follow Apple’s instructions for opening a trusted app. The app and these instructions do not disable Gatekeeper or remove quarantine attributes.

Check Setup verifies the executable and prepared files without starting a game. Settings, profiles, resources and logs live in ~/Library/Application Support/Rust Minecraft Invasion/0.8.0/. The selected MW2 installation is read-only. Close the game before moving the app or changing audio output devices.

Controls

Controllers use Apple’s GameController framework on macOS; Steam Input is not required. Focus the game window to play. Controller rumble is not implemented by the native Mac bridge. Options → Controls / Controller retains the normal binding and sensitivity menus.

The invasion

• 67 mob/variant entries, two of each: 134 target enemies, with varied sizes and individual three-second respawns. Complete roster.
• Creepers hiss, swell, flash and explode; retreating cancels their fuse. Explosions damage and push players/mobs without destroying Rust’s structures.
• Skeletons use bows/arrows, spiders climb, Endermen teleport to checked positions, witches throw splash potions, and flying attackers use fireballs.
• 300 player HP, 25% less mob health than the previous invasion build, and a brief 0.25-second interval between mob hits to limit crowd volleys.
• Intervention Quickscope + Sleight of Hand Pro: twice-as-fast eligible reloads and scope transitions. The Intervention’s data gives 400 ms aim-in normally / 200 ms with Pro. Regular Sleight of Hand stays reload-only.
• The existing invasion’s unlimited ammunition and bonus Intervention / SPAS-12 / UMP45 remain available.

Every standard MW2 killstreak, enabled together

No killstreak loadout selection is required. Your weapon and grenade kills unlock all rewards at each threshold, including both rewards when they share a cost. Rewards queue until you press D-pad Right / 4. Death resets your consecutive-kill count but retains earned rewards. Support kills and mobs killing each other do not farm more rewards.

These are arena adaptations of the full standard reward roster, with custom support models/effects and targeting for Minecraft mobs. They do not reproduce all stock MW2 killstreak animations or cinematics. UAV reveals mobs on a radar; Counter-UAV disrupts ranged accuracy/range; EMP suppresses ranged attacks. Walk up to a landed supply crate to collect its reward and heal. Emergency Airdrop supplies four crates.

Predator, Chopper Gunner and AC-130 have player-controlled remote views. Your body is held still and protected from mob damage while controlling them. The AC-130 has 25 mm, 40 mm and 105 mm modes. The nuke counts down for ten seconds, clears the living mob population, heals you and restarts the reward ladder; the survival arena continues with respawns.

Build from source

The complete runtime, mob implementation, controller bridge, launcher and packaging source are in this repository. There are no private source submodules.

Install Rust (the repository pins the toolchain) and platform build dependencies from BUILD.md. On macOS, install Xcode Command Line Tools. Then:

git clone https://github.com/oh-ashen-one/rust-minecraft-invasion.git
cd rust-minecraft-invasion
cargo build --locked --profile play -p launcher -j 4
python3 invasion-launcher/package_macos.py

The packaging script creates dist/Rust Minecraft Invasion.app, a ZIP and SHA256SUMS.txt. It verifies code signatures and executes the binary’s help path; it does not launch a renderer or match. The packaged app does not need Python, Rust or this checkout on the player’s computer.

For a source run on macOS/Linux, choose a writable runtime directory and use absolute executable/data paths:

/path/to/iw4l prepare-invasion
IW4L_GAMES='/path/to/owned/MW2' IW4L_RUST_INVASION=1 IW4L_SKATE=off IW4L_UPDATE=0 /path/to/iw4l menu

Upstream Windows/Linux build paths remain available in BUILD.md and WINDOWS.md. This release includes a tested-to-load Apple silicon binary; this invasion version has not been runtime-tested on Windows, Intel Mac or Linux.

Verification and limitations

See VALIDATION.md for the release checks and their limits. This is an experimental public build. Compilation, focused simulation checks, actual Rust collision probes and fresh resource preparation passed. New killstreak visuals, live controller interactions, balance and rendered frame rate still need player feedback. No unattended match was started to claim a playtest.

The broad inherited make publish-check is not clean; it reports pre-existing address-shaped literals and test placement across upstream components. The invasion update added none of those findings. Temporary development probes were removed before publication under the repository test policy.

The launcher holds shared renderer locks, allows at most two renderer-bearing engines, and never closes another application or automatically restarts a crashed game. If launch fails, inspect logs/latest-launch.log under the runtime folder above. For setup failures, inspect logs/prepare.log. Please omit personal paths or account details when posting logs.

Credits and license

• vladtrc and IW4L contributors — standalone MW2 runtime.
• chasmlol — 2010 Rust Rewrite Mashup, MinecraftOSS integration and the upstream crossover work.
• oh-ashen-one — Rust invasion roster/abilities, survival reward ladder, native Mac input/launch packaging and this public fork.

Code is under Apache-2.0, with bundled third-party notices retained; see LICENSE, NOTICE, and the upstream README. Font licenses are shipped with the app. All game trademarks and original content belong to their owners. This project is unofficial and unaffiliated with Activision, Mojang or Microsoft.