Compatible With:
- Oxide
- Carbon
⚡ DRONEBATTLES ⚡
Deploy Autonomous Combat Drones via Throwable Beacons
5 Difficulty Tiers · Explosive Weaponry · Tesla Strikes · Leaderboards · Legendary Weapon
✅ Carbon | ✅ Oxide | v1.0.0 | By Markiii
What is DroneBattles?
Players throw custom beacon items to summon hostile AI combat drones that attack with bullets, rockets, napalm, tesla strikes, and more. Kill the drone to earn elite loot crates. Survive the onslaught. Climb the leaderboard. Hunt the legendary weapon.
Every drone encounter is a unique fight — they dodge, strafe, carpet bomb, and enrage when low on health. Solo or squad, Easy to Nightmare — DroneBattles scales from casual fun to white-knuckle endgame content.
⚔️ 5 Combat Tiers
- EASY — Solo friendly. Low HP, basic weapons. Perfect for beginners.
- MEDIUM — Bring gear & meds. Faster, more aggressive, rockets enabled.
- HARD — Squad recommended. Napalm, tesla, high damage. Build a tower.
- ELITE — Full military gear. Carpet bombs, EMP, homing missiles.
- NIGHTMARE — Everything maxed. Hackable crate rewards. Good luck.
Drone Arsenal
- Auto-Turret Bullets — Accurate burst fire with configurable aim cone
- Bradley Shells — Explosive AoE cannon rounds from above
- Napalm Rockets — Fire trails that deny ground areas
- Barrage Rockets — Wide spread rocket salvos
- Homing Missiles — Lock-on heat seekers that chase players
- ⚡ Tesla Strike — Chain lightning AoE arcing between targets
- ️ Anti-Missile Defense — Shoots down incoming player rockets
- ☢️ EMP Blast — Close-range AoE burst on low pass
Legendary Weapon — BANE OF THE SKY
A custom-skinned M249 that deals DOUBLE DAMAGE to all aerial targets — combat drones, patrol helis, and attack helis. Extremely rare drop from Hard+ tier kills.
- 0.03% – 0.05% Drop Rate
- Cannot Be Recycled
- Cannot Be Reskinned or Sold
- Server-Wide Announcement on Drop
✨ Full Feature List
- Leaderboard GUI — Per-tier rankings, personal bests, clickable tabs
- ❤️ Health Bar UI — Real-time drone HP visible to squad only
- ️ Map Markers — Live tracking with custom colors per tier
- Combat Briefing — Squad tips on deploy with tier-specific gear advice
- Configurable Loot — Custom loot tables OR vanilla crate loot
- Hackable Crates — Elite/Nightmare tiers drop locked crates
- ️ Squad-Lock Loot — Only your team can access the drops
- Base Protection — Drone damage won't hit non-squad structures
- ⏱️ Cooldowns & Limits — Per-player, global, and daily deploy caps
- ️ Permission Tiers — Grant access per tier with granular perms
- Shop Ready — Custom beacon skins, works with ServerRewards
- Deeply Configurable — 100+ config options, every weapon tunable
⌨️ Commands
Player:
Code:
/dbtop
Admin:
Code:
/dbgive <tier> <player> [count]
Code:
/dbgiveall <tier> [count]
Code:
/dbdeploy [tier]
Code:
/dbstatus
Code:
/dbresetcd [player]
Code:
/dbbane [player]
Permissions
Code:
dronebattles.use
Code:
dronebattles.easy / medium / hard / elite / nightmare
Code:
dronebattles.admin
Code:
dronebattles.bypasscooldown
Battle-Tested Security
- ️ Can't pick up or control active combat drones
- ️ Computer station control fully blocked
- ♻️ Bane weapon can't be recycled, reskinned, or sold
- Different-tier beacons won't merge in inventory
- Failed deploys refund beacon + undo cooldown & daily count
- Clean unload — all drones, UIs, markers cleaned up on reload
- Self-damage fully blocked across all projectile types
- Collateral base damage prevented for non-squad structures
- Guaranteed loot drops — 3-tier fallback ensures crates always have items
At a Glance
5 Difficulty Tiers · 8+ Weapon Systems · 100+ Config Options · 7 Admin Commands · 3 API Hooks · 0 Known Exploits
DroneBattles v1.0.0 by Markiii
Compatible with Carbon and Oxide/uMod · Rust game servers
One purchase covers all servers under the same brand/owner
Support & lifetime updates included
markiii-rust.co.uk
Compatible with Carbon and Oxide/uMod · Rust game servers
One purchase covers all servers under the same brand/owner
Support & lifetime updates included
markiii-rust.co.uk