xtab's Rust Skin Pix

The arrival of boats in the game has pushed skins in a pirate / ocean direction, with three such skins on the top ten, and many more in the Workshop.  Our favorite: Greedy Pirate Door, by JohnnyOldboy.

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Greedy Pirate Door
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Never let it be said that JohnnyOldBoy's work is too subtle, subdued, or boring for Rust. When he decides to make a skull-door, he doesn't just stick a skull on a sheet metal door, he slaps a silver skull on it...with sharp metallic carnivorous demon teeth and bronze medusa snakes crawling out the back, reared and ready to strike. All this on some kind of stylized pedestal, like an island amid a sea of tentacles reaching high like storm waves. 

Awesome!

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Inherited Hatchet
Inherited Hatchet
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A striking mishmash of materials from bone to steel, with a highly visible bronze zig-zag pattern on the blade and a curious leather wrapping  around the hatchet handle. It's this leather wrapping that's most interesting.  If you look closely, you'll see a caveman style story about hunters, travel and fishing. The story is quite extensive for a hatchet-wrapping--you'll have to read it for yourself to work it out.  

The zig-zag pattern on the blade and the leather wrapping on the handle make for an unusual skin, in that it's got something to show both close up and from a distance.  Be sure and drop by the artist's workshop for high-resolution pictures of the wrapping.

By TonyaeR and Odissey

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Junkyard Lord Set
Junkyard Lord Set
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Nevil112 and MDemon collaborated to produce the Junkyard Lord Set, NOT to be confused with Junkyard King, Samurai, pipe, furnace, chestplate, revolver, lr300 or dog.  Remember:  Junkyard LORD.  

Last week, they released the pants and a long sleeve T-shirt, which were all right but nothing unusual, but this week they released a Junkyard Lord Hoodie and this here Balaclava.  The hoodie makes the set much more cohesive and useful in the game, but it's the Balaclava that makes it cool. 

Broken glass goggles and an inhuman, wide mouth lend a cold and somewhat desperate cast to the mask, and taken together with the pants and hoodie, you'll look like a proper post-apocalyptic scavenger, uncaring and so, so lethal.  How would you like to see a pack of these guys zerging your poorly defended base?

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Aftermath Garage Door
Aftermath Garage Door
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Here's a new garage door for you, straight from the back of an old truck or shipping dock.  It's got rings and straps for securing cargo and a laconic "keep out" stenciled unprofessionally across its face, with dripping paint and fading letters. 

The primitive keep out message suggests it was added sometime after the door was first salvaged. It's fitting, but entirely unnecessary--welcome mats haven't been big sellers since the apocalypse.  

Very fine work on this door, very Rusty.  We like the grain of the metal at the top of the door where the roll-up housing begins, the heavy rows of rivets, and the strategically placed dents and scratches.

By Madroce

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Spec Ops Tool Set
Spec Ops Tool Set
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The Spec Ops tool set by Badaxe is an example of high quality but relatively unimaginative skins that we feature from time to time on the Top Ten. They're carefully and finely detailed skins without any sort of unusual twist or gimmick to grab your attention.  And that's OK--some people like their liquor unmixed and straight up, just keep 'em coming. 

This tool set has a pickaxe and this here hatchet, both with a heavy nylon grip, steel blades, and tarnished fittings.  You can drop by the artist's workshop for a look at the pickaxe.

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Vandal's Peace Door
Vandal's Peace Door
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At last a door for all the peaceniks reading this blog. It's a wooden door with Rust graffiti scrawled all over it, front and back. A large peace symbol painted in the center lets everyone know you're friendly, and there's lots of little flower prints stenciled into the back of the door to remind there's more to life than breaking into your neighbor's house, crushing his skull with an ice pick, and stealing everything he has. 

The door's got tons of Rust references disguised as graffiti scrawled over it, and it'll take you some time to find it all.  We love the door, but unfortunately it's just a wooden door, so you'll have to rely on your powers of persuasion to keep the wolves at bay.  When they come, try playing music into your microphone to calm them down.  It soothes the savage beast.

By Frostbite

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Shark Bite
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Another skin by Badaxe, this time in collaboration with Maryjane420. It's a semi-auto rifle with a shark and metallic waves across the body and barrel in bas-relief. An anchor drifts below the shark on the ammo clip. There's also double anchor emblem etched into the top of the gun just after the sights, which you'll see every time you take aim. Bloody teeth complete the picture at the back of the gun.

It's an unusual SAR, very colorful in a Rusty kind of way, and strong on details and textures.

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Recycle Box
Recycle Box
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Now comes a recyclables box for everyone who likes to keep their evil lair, cannibal den or fortress of darkness tidy and environmentally friendly.  Even your dimmest clan mates will know the contents of the box are bound for the recycle machine, and will hopefully make the trip for you and get ambushed there in your stead. 

The box is painted a grubby, but cheerful institutional green, with three prominent recycle symbols on the top and the bottom.  It's nicely worn and beat-up, but we think it could have used another recycle symbol on the side to help identify it in a loot room setting.

By Andrey

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Salvaged Sleeping Bag
Salvaged Sleeping Bag
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The Salvaged Sleeping Bag by LittleRanger is an emergency relief bag that's got all the calamities covered--fire, death, plague, fallout, beheading...and perhaps alien invasion.. it even includes yellow cautionary striping on the side so you don't get run over by a truck at the refugee center.  And just in case, there's leather straps on top that could be used as patient restraints in case of emergency surgery or amputation.

Always be prepared.

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Sea Monster Python
Sea Monster Python
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Last we have another ocean themed weapon, one "Sea Monster Python" by Jesin. We'll overlook the fact that pythons don't live in the ocean, and just note the handle's got a variety of tentacles writhing about a water-warped handle.  Strange Damascus steel swirls climb the trigger guard and barrel, which is painted golden yellow.

The tentacles have a nice, 3-D feel to them, and the gun is pretty easy to make out at a distance.  But we must point out that the skin's strength is all in the handle, which your hand mostly covers up during game play.

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xtab's Rust Skin Pix

This was a great week in the Rust Workshop, with tons of high quality skins vying for attention. And though many deserved a spot on the blog, we could only choose ten. Our favorite: The Medieval Fresco Furnace, by Es'Kophan

In addition to the top ten, I'll be doing a weekly video showing off all the Top Ten skins in the game environment.  Unfortunately, this week I did some of the video before the blog and ran out of time to finish before I had to post, so the video shows the Eye of Isis AK instead of the Slaughter Python and the Outlaws set.  I'll have my act together next week--promise! You can watch the video here.

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Medieval Fresco Furnace
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First up and top on our list is the creative and astonishing Medieval Fresco Furnace by Es'Kophan. It's a whitewashed furnace painted on one side with flat medieval characters trying to kill a bear, while the other side depicts a prone and helpless solo player begging for help from a rabbit.  The whitewash carelessly extends into the lower clay brick portion of the furnace, which heightens the somewhat primitive feel of the work.

The pictures are a bit weird, but so were many pre-renaissance paintings and drawings, and we cannot fault these for quality or creativity.  Perfect for a castle base or  role-playing environments.

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Miner's Furnace
Miner's Furnace
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And here's another fancy furnace for you, this one by TonyaeR and Odissey. It's a standard clay furnace reworked into something a bit more upscale in a rustic sort of way, all clad in wood paneling like a barrel, and ringed in fine wrought iron fittings. 

The wood and iron veneer is timeless, and could fit in pretty much any historical age, pre or post apocalyptic with ease.  Use it to heat your hovel, or provide a touch of warmth and comfort in this cold and unforgiving land.

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Unnecessary Detail
Unnecessary Detail
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An odd name for a colorful and creative mask by our resident High Priest of Weirdness, Shedmon. Which detail, exactly, was unnecessary?  The hammered metal teeth?  The cracks in the paint, or one of the mad and varied colors applied haphazardly across the face? How about the thick wires binding it all together, or the tiny flattened nail heads?

We'll probably never find out, but we do find the mask interesting, creative, and appealing.  

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Seaman Set
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Rowboats and speedboats are now available in the game, so Mishka and Sfonsper made this timely set of sea-going clothes for all you aspiring sailors and (let's face it) pirates.  It's a waterproof two piece set (three if you include the gloves) of pants and this here hoodie.  The hoodie's got a striped sailor's undershirt with an artificial fiber windbreaker on top, and a few pockets, tags and anchor emblems to reinforce the grizzled fisherman look.

The waterproof material on both the pants and the hoodie is very well executed and highly realistic in the game, almost photo realistic. We're not quite sure how this effect was achieved, and frankly, we're a bit envious. This set will look great whether you're in a boat, in the water, or huddling on some wretched iceberg off the coast, out of sight from mainland marauders.

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Chinook Fuselage Door
Chinook Fuselage Door
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And just as we have new boats to play with, we now also have new hostile aircraft to shoot down. You'd think that after losing so many Chinooks over this incredibly well-armed island of psychopathic killers the crews would be more careful, but no.  Some people never learn. You'd also think there would be survivors in some of these crashes, survivors who could be questioned, but no luck yet.

While the Chinooks provide no answers, they do provide plenty of supplies and spare parts, like this tough fuselage door by TonyaeR and Odissey. The artists tried to preserve the look of the aircraft while still fitting the form of the sheet metal door mesh.  As with all work from these two, details are plentiful and flaws are few. 

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Dark Rite Stone Hatchet
Dark Rite Stone Hatchet
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Here's another savage and cruel implement of destruction that's also pretty handy chopping wood for the fireplace or...whatever else that may need chopping.  The handle's a rough, dark wood wrapped in mysterious spirit leather and fitted with a fine rubberized grip you can pick up at your local hardware store for a $1.99, while the blade is some kind of soft stone painted with a hint of demonic smile. A single black bead in the center of the blade completes the illusion, and forms the eye of the beast.

There is a pickaxe that goes with this hatchet, but we didn't find it anywhere near as appealing, nor did we think it matched the hatchet very well.  You can see them both at LittleRanger's workshop, along with tons more high quality, approved skins.

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Meltdown Metal Door
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As you can see, it just takes one nuclear bomb to ruin your whole day, and a nuclear plant meltdown can really bring down local rental values. Clearly, radiation is useful, but it's not for everyone. 

Estavos intended this door to look like it was originally a wood door upgraded to sheet metal, and then painted over Urban style, camouflage for a tough neighborhood.  We think it looks great and makes a near perfect fit for just about any place in the game, but it's possible some newbie players may mistake it for a wooden door.  

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Teslapunk Hammer
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Teslapunk Hammer is the second amazing skin from Es'Kophan on the top ten this week, and the difference between the two illustrates the flexible creative strength of the artist. The hammer is your standard salvaged hammer, with the handle wrapped in electrical tape and wire and with the head replaced with a pair of tightly wound copper coils. The back of the hammer head has an electrical or magnetic gauge, and you'll see it when you swing at something.

What all this wiring is supposed to achieve is unclear, but we figure it is destructive in nature. Interestingly, the workshop image shows the hammer against a newspaper background with stories about the hammer. While we think the Teslapunk Hammer is a first rate creative skin, the presentation of the skin is probably the best we've ever seen.  You can drop by the artist's workshop for a close look at both the hammer and the newspaper.

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Outlaws Set
Outlaws Set
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La Crampe produces some of the most consistently high quality skins in the Workshop, and the Outlaws Set is no exception. It's a rough, homespun mish-mash of materials and over the top, hyper masculine biker symbols and accessories, like metal skull shoulder pads, studded leather bracers, club logos and a barbed wire necklace. 

All of this is well executed except the necklace, which we think looks rather flat against the inner shirt  Just as well--nobody is crazy enough to wear such a thing, no matter what they're high on, so we'd just interpret it as metal wire sewed into the shirt.

We also note the workshop image does not do the skin justice.  There are much better pictures on the workshop page, and you can get a look at the pants that go with the hoodie there as well.

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Slaughter | Python
Slaughter | Python
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Last is the charming new Slaughter Python, first in what looks to be a new series of Slaughter weapons by Milho Frito.  The gun is a non-creative but very finely made Python revolver, all steel and brass with a handsome red leather pistol grip. Rust levels are low but wear is still visible, especially around the trigger guard.

There's nothing particularly unusual about this skin, but strong quality and obsessive attention to small details will always be valuable contributions to the workshop.

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Do’s and Don’ts for the Aspiring Rust Skin Artist

We look at every single skin submitted to the Rust Workshop, and think it’s time to weigh in and give the aspiring Rust skin artist some basic Do’s and Don’ts, in hopes that we’ll see new artists emerge making more awesome skins for us all to enjoy in the game.

DON'Ts

Don’t: Brand new
Don’t make skins that look like modern or factory fresh. The factories, knowledge, and manpower needed to make such things were destroyed in nuclear fire, or maybe a terrible plague. We don’t know yet, so just remember that the old world is gone, and it doesn’t make sense for players to be running around with shiny new toys. But if you insist on making something pre-apocalyptic in style, think how it might look if it had been found after a long time in storage, or under a radioactive trash heap.

Don’t: Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Don’t Make skins which are sci-fi or fantasy in character. This means no glowing magic swords, aliens or ray guns. Facepunch generally seems to be heading towards maintaining the game’s post-apocalyptic style, and will usually (but not always!) reject or ignore such skins.

Don’t: Tell
Don’t Tell. If you write “Ammo” on a plain green box, you are telling us what it is. If you make it look like an ammo box, you are showing us what it is. It is OK to have text on a skin if it makes sense. That ammo crate may have military lettering stenciled on it with words and numbers because that’s what real ammo crates look like.

Don’t: Quantity
Don’t Focus on quantity. You can only produce so many quality skins per week. If you overproduce, you are hurting the overall quality of your skins and your audience will be less loyal and pay less attention to your stuff. Only you can decide how much to produce, so ration your work time wisely. Don’t even think of slapping a single texture over multiple meshes and posting them to the workshop. It is the easiest thing in the world to scroll past blocks of spam like that. You have to earn people’s attention.

Don’t: Re-post
Don’t adjust and repost something that has already been rejected, especially if it was rejected with no comment. If you really think it will help then go ahead--but you’re likely just spinning your wheels.

Don’t: Steal
Whatever you do, don’t steal someone else’s skin and post it as your own, even with modifications. Don’t steal textures from the Internet. Don’t steal someone’s trademark. If someone glances at your skin and is confused and think it clearly looks like this logo or like that CS:GO skin, then it’s probably going to get treated like a violation or a copy.

Don’t: Senseless Glowing
Glowing items don’t make sense most of the time. And they make your customers a target.

Don't: Mix Tiers in Sets

This means you don’t want to mix burlap skins with cloth skins,  match up a long sleeve T-shirt with urban pants, or make a coffee can helmet together with a metal chest plate.

Don't: Be Sloppy

People do things like apply rust to one part of a skin but not the rest, or leave obviously damaged or temporary textures in place when they upload to the workshop.  When you finish a skin, take a few minutes to check it out carefully before posting.

Don't: Deceive
Make skins that are appropriate for the mesh. This means that if you're working on a wood door mesh, don't make it look like a sheet metal door. This rule is pretty flexible, though. It is OK to add a little armor padded to clothing if that's what you're going for, since it's probably not going to seriously confuse anyone.  Just use your common sense.

Don't: Pester or Troll
Don't make a nuisance of yourself. Life is short, and there's no reason to work with people who give you grief. Don't constantly tweet and tag the devs, troll the forums, or otherwise misbehave on social media. You'll only get blocked, banned, or ignored. Disagreement or complaint is one thing, hassling and trolling another.

Don't: Flags
Avoid national flags and the Rust logo. Although you may use them, these skins are rarely approved.

DO's

Do: Post-apocalyptic
Do make skins that could be made in a post-apocalyptic environment. Think Mad Max, The Road, or Fallout. Something terrible has happened to the world and all the survivors are left to live on their wits, luck, and good aim. Skins should look like something a clever person could cobble together from scraps or pieces of old world technology. In general, skins should be a little dirty, worn, and beat-up. Rusty.

Do: Backstory
Do give a little backstory and a creative name. This helps people fix in their mind what your skin is all about. Calling a bullet ridden sheet metal door the “Red Sheet Metal Door” isn’t very exciting, but “Salvation Door” makes people think of frantic gunfights and desperate last stands. If your English or your writing skills aren’t very good, ask a friend to help. Avoid poetry. You know who you are.

Do: Show
Remember show and tell in school?

Do: Quality
Do focus on quality. Consistently producing quality work is the best way to get noticed. Although there’s about a thousand new skins added to the workshop every week, the vast majority of them are, to put it politely, drek. If you’re producing quality work, you’ll get recognized. We love finding talented artists producing quality work. And we’ve been seeing an increasing emphasis on technical quality. Flawed skins don’t get approved.

Do: OpenGL Normal Map, Spec/Gloss Map Workflow

Do: Fill Holes
Fill Holes Do make skins for meshes where there's only one or two (or maybe zero) approved skins.  Facepunch is looking to fill these holes with approvals, and competition is light.

Do: Collaborate

It’s OK to collaborate and share revenue with another artist.  Sometimes you’ll get inspired by someone’s work in another game.  If you want to use that art, or something very close to it, you’ll need the original artist’s permission. Remember that you can offer to share revenue with another workshop artist.  It is also OK to purchase stock art and creatively apply it to your own skin, as long as you can show you comply with the license.

 

Lastly, Do ignore any of these do’s and don’ts whenever your Muse commands--really high quality and creative skins will always be considered--but Don’t cry when you get rejected. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

Note: these do's and don'ts are solely the opinions of xtab xtudios.

xtab's Rust Skin Pix

Three armor and facemask sets for you this week, all in the top ten and here for you to compare. Solid sets each and all, but the Morgenface Set by TonyaeR and Odissey is our favorite.

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Peacekeeper Set
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Now comes a grim new "Peacekeeper" set by Badaxe, which includes a metal chest plate and this here metal face mask.  It's got a heavy metal and twilight desert camo pattern with a steel face grill, the kind of thing worn at dread military checkpoints and barricaded fortifications, where papers are demanded and curt orders barked.  Get out of the car.  Keep your hands in the air. Get on your knees...

The set succeeds for its sense of militarism and dark purpose. The mask covers the face and hides expression, preventing any human connection or identification, while the chest plate reinforces the impression.  If you like the mask, be sure and visit the artist's workshop to see the chest plate.

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Morgenface Set
Morgenface Set
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Our second set is the more fantastic Morgenface set by TonyaeR and Odissey. It's an impressive Frankenstein mix of leather and metal fragments held together with rivets and big staples that tries hard to terrify.  Fiery paint licks around the eyes, and the mouth displays surprisingly even teeth in a permanent sneer of contempt. 

The chest plate features a stylized six-pack most wearers won't even come close to matching, while both the mask and the chest plate sport cute little TonyaeR devils in out of the way locations. Taken together, the armor set makes you look like a metallic Hulk, sans the green.

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Flyer Set
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Our last featured armor set comes from Mishka and MDemon.  Flyer is metal face and chest armor for post apocalyptic flyboys, as though a gang of biker savages discovered a cache of gyrocopters and decided to go aerial. The mask looks heavy and tough, while the chest plate is made to look like a flak jacket / flight harness. 

It's a strange but fierce combo, convincing as armor and low altitude flight gear. There's a parachute emblem on the chest plate, but that's just for show. Be sure and drop by the artists' workhshops to see the chest plate and dozens more high quality, approved Rust skins.

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Soulkeeper Python
Soulkeeper Python
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This python is a continuation of Madroce's popular Soulkeeper series of guns and, we think, the most handsome of the lot. It's tans and yellows with a crushed bone veneer running the length of the barrel. The cylinder's stamped with tiny silver skulls, while the polished handles are striped in luxurious whorls.

Like an old casino, the weapon is both fancy and run-down at the same time. Soulkeeper is a gambler's gun.

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Demonic AK-47
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Yes, it glows in the dark.  Brightly.  A complete and total bullet-magnet.  Ya gonna die.

Now that we've got that out of the way, Demonic is a fine-looking beast, all black iron and red glowing coals with embossed demons and fell Hellish inscriptions. One side of the gun features a roaring dragon, while the other shows a sullen reptilian monster laying in wait.  

We cannot fault this weapon for quality, nor can it be called boring by any stretch of the imagination.  It is unrealistic, but it's also a lot of fun, and we predict brisk sales if approved.  Good luck, LittleRanger!

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Soul Burner
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Speaking of demons, Vitalik presents this hungry furnace for use in darker, more dungeon-like bases.  Think stone walls, traps, spikes, manacles and disposal pits. The furnace fits in well with some of the more fantastic deployable object skins without actually being completely implausible itself.

The foundation bricks are heavy, the demonic visage baleful, and yes, the eyes glow. We love the stylized flames and solid, Vitalik quality, and we're sure the furnace will fit well in just about any Evil Lair or Fortress of Darkness you can imagine.

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Caution AK47
Caution AK47
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Extending his popular approved Caution roadsign armor set, Badtrip created this yellow warning weapon for all who will take heed.  It's a cheerfully rusted assault rifle replete with warning signs, fallout symbols, smiley faces and Badtrip skulls, all signaling the need for extreme caution.  But caution for what, and for whom?

In the end it doesn't really matter. We find that no degree of caution guarantees survival in this game, except maybe just hiding in your base.  But then you starve, or get raided, so that's no good, either.  Perhaps the only winning move, is not to play?

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Elephant Bone
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Another Mishka skin, this one reminiscent of the Raj or old warring South Asian kingdoms, opulence and splendor amid squalor and abject poverty, a contrast which heightens the value of the weapon. But this one's old and Rusting, its best days in the past and future uncertain. 

Though the gun is finely detailed, it's best viewed from a few paces away. At that distance, you mostly see the gold and hints of fine patterns while losing the sense of decay.  Oh, and try not to think about the name too hard.

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Scolopendra
Scolopendra
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A large and undoubtedly poisonous insect winds round the grip, while another stretched along the length of the barrel. It's got a stinger and nasty, biting mandibles, and if it manages to sting you, you will be sorry. We suppose that about sums up the role of the semi-auto pistol in the game, more a bee sting than a snake bite, but get stung enough and any animal will go down.

We like the Scolopendra bug, and we also like the colors and the fractured-stone effect painted beneath it. Quality is much the same as the rest of Freddy's skins, all of which feature some kind of dangerous animal more monster.  Drop by the artist's workshop and have a look--lots to see!

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Striker SAR
Striker SAR
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Speaking of unpleasant animals, BFS has released a colorful semi-auto rifle featuring a baleful blue snake, coiled and striking.  We don't know much about snakes, but we figure the more colorful ones are the worst. This one's got  a predatory, spiteful expression we can appreciate in a gun like this, and the rest of the gun is painted in snake scales and coils to match.

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xtab's Rust Skin Pix

We have a more primitive line up for you this week, with far fewer doors and no high end weapons.  Top spot was a toss up between Life Taker and Nitromaniac, but we're going with Life Taker, by Shedmon.

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Life Taker
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Most skins by Shedmon are either weird or creepy, but this one's a little of both. A tiny, fanged demon skull wraps around the handle like an infernal wedding ring, with a rifled iron barrel behind. There's a pair of manacles dangling from the barrel, purpose unknown. 

All of this in ominous red and black. It would seem more menacing on a serious weapon, but eokas can still score a kill, if you're lucky.

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Aztec Sleeping Bag
Aztec Sleeping Bag
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La Crampe presented this surprisingly beautiful sleeping bag last week after we had already written the Top Ten, so we include it now, with enthusiasm. It's a rich cloth and leather bag, laced at the top in beads and three jade pendants. Complex and graceful Aztec symbols run along the top of the bag and pillow, and each pendant is stamped with the face of one of La Crampe's tragi-comic gods.

The sleeping bag matches the rest of his extensive approved Aztec series of skins, five in all. Quality is excellent, but the fit to Rust is not perfect..

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Apocalyptic Set
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Apocalyptic is Badtrip's cheerful armor collection of doom, junk, and dire warnings: Stop. Trust No One. Dead End. Do Not Feed the Bears.

All good advice, even if that last one isn't always optional. A couple of Badtrip skulls and peace symbols are thrown in to illustrate the duality of Man.  You know, the Jungian thing.

The set includes a road sign kilt, coffee can helmet, and this here road sign vest. It's mostly yellow with a lot of negative things to say, but there's a touch of color here and there. :)  It's already quite popular in the workshop, and we expect approval would make it even more so.

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Railway Box
Railway Box
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Here's a gorgeous large wood box by Mishka and Sfonsper that will transform your shabby man cave or grim cannibal den into a distinguished 19th century parlor Well, that may be taking it a little far, but the box does have a certain gracious air about it, one that isn't spoiled by a few scrapes and scratches.

There are two versions of this box, one with a soft golden glow and one without.  We think the glow is unnecessary, and chose the no-glow version for the top ten.

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Railway Door
Railway Door
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And here's a fine antique door to go with the Railway Box. It's a sheet metal door in oak and tin and brass, with scuffed iron fittings and a curious copper doorknob. Three small, oblong windows line the top of the door, and it seems as though you may be able to see through them, but alas, you cannot.

As with most skins from this pair of artists, quality is outstanding. The 19th century style is not a perfect fit for the game, but a case could be made for later decades or more primitive locales. Either way, this is a good looking skin, and we hope to see it approved.

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Tribe Stone Set
Tribe Stone Set
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Badtrip also released a stone hatchet and pickaxe pair this week, and we couldn't pass up the fine detail, materials, and design. The blade is some kind of pitted stone, and the handle is a rough wood with dyed leather wrapped about it and holding the blade in place. There's an odd mix of "tribal" and medieval themes, but in truth, it's the medieval that's more predominate, with a jester's motley woven into the handle where your hand grasps the tool.

The pick axe is a bit simpler, with less surface space to decorate and rougher wood, but we find it quite appealing. Taken together, they'll help you forget you just woke up on the beach...again.  Be sure and drop by the artist's workshop for a look at the pickaxe.

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Nitromaniac Hammer
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This hot rod hammer sports a rough wood head and handle with a rubberized grip.  Primitive paint is applied with an eye for speed, and the hammer looks like a fiery streak flashing down on repairable objects. There's a strip of tire rubber on the back and the whole thing is soaked in engine grease.  Rusty as it gets!

By Andrey and Estavos

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Ritual
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Another stone hatchet, this one a rare submission by Es'Kophan and NOT part of a set. It features a hard stone blade bound to a burning ember which glows faintly red in the dark. Soft leather holds the tool together, and tribal / cultist beads form the grip and protect your hand from the heat.

Unrealistic as it may be, we find the skin curiously appealing, and strong in details and quality. 

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Dwarf Set
Dwarf Set
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Johnnyoldboy has created an armored chest plate and face mask pair in a crowded and angular style somewhat reminiscent of Skyrim and similar fantasy games. It's a tough looking combo of steel and brass, cruel and imposing, a true warrior's set.

Trouble is, there's no dwarves on the island, just naked savages of nearly equal height. But fear not--one size fits all. Drop by the artist's workshop to see the chest plate.

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Industrial Python
Industrial Python
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Mishka's third work on the Top Ten this week is the Industrial Python, a makeshift high caliber pistol made from rebar, steel mesh backing, and copper clamps.  The cylinder, too, looks like copper and we wonder how many times such a gun could fire suffering a permanent malfunction or worse. Do you feel lucky, punk?

We like the bare steel at the end of the barrel, and the metal cap at the base of the handle. We especially like the way the underlying metal mesh is partially exposed through other layers of materials. A highly Rusty weapon, we very much hope to see this one win approval.  

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xtab's Rust Skin Pix

A good mix of skins and styles this week, with strong quality. Our favorite: Cargo Truck Garage Door, by StabbyMcStabface.

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Bone Collector Metal Facemask
Bone Collector Metal Facemask
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Bone collector is a new series of skins by Milho Frito which include this mask, a metal chestplate, a large wooden box, and a wooden door.  The box and the door have already been accepted, and we think acceptance for this excellent mask and chestplate is likely.

The mask is the face of an inhuman skull, with extra large eyes and rows of sharp, carnivorous teeth.  Parts are held in place by heavy metal staples, and the skull is attached to a finely stitched leather cap. While the skull's original owner is a mystery, you wouldn't have wanted to meet him in the dark, or at any other time, for that matter.  

The Bone Collector series shares its name with our own series of Bone Collector skins, which are as yet unapproved.  Our set includes a metal facemask, roadsign vest and kilt, and a bone knife.

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Bone Collector Chest Plate
Bone Collector Chest Plate
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This is the metal chestplate that goes with Milho Frito's Bone Collector Facemask. It's a metal plate covered in well-cured leather, which is used to pin the Collector's bones in place.  The bones aren't actually connected to each other, a fact which frees the Collector to creatively place them where he pleases.  

So we have a rib cage with a miniature imp skull where the hips and pelvis ought to be.  Or maybe the whole thing is just upside down--we're not exactly anatomy experts around here.  But in either case, whatever the animal is supposed to be, it's full of sharp teeth and NOT natural in the slightest.  

As with most Milho Frito skins, quality is very high.  You'll look like a walking X-Ray, but we're pretty sure most players will consider that a plus.

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Cargo Truck Garage Door
Cargo Truck Garage Door
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The shipping company of tomorrow, today!  Except tomorrow has become today, and the worldwide apocalypse and associated drastic decline in population has put a big dent in the economy.  Shipping in particular is down, WAY down, and Global Shipping trucks sit unused at their docks, waiting for business to pick up again.

The trucks are going nowhere, but their parts can be mighty useful, like with this roll-up truck door. This has got to be one of the Rustiest skins we've ever seen, and such a perfect fit for the game you'd think it was a default skin.  It'll look great on just about any base.

By StabbyMcStabface

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Area 84 Garage Door
Area 84 Garage Door
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This is where they keep all the good loot...

A solid looking metal garage door covered in cartoony alien street graffiti marked Area 84.  That's where they kept all the alien artifacts they blew out of the sky, back before the apocalypse. Of course, that's just an urban legend. And while nobody knows what caused the apocalypse, it couldn't have been aliens, since aliens aren't real...right?

We like the drawing, and we like the area X reference. The door should look good on graffiti bases and grim underground bunkers alike.  

By KeKe

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Berserker
Berserker
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A completely fearless red-bearded warrior charges into battle, cutting down foes left and right, indomitable and unstoppable.  We think that about describes some marauding Rust clans located near our own modest abode.

We know that we certainly fall before them like wheat before a scythe no matter how many times we hit some of these people.  That's why we resort to craftier means of scoring kills, like ambush and deceit. Especially deceit...

We like this gun not only for the lunatic zeal of the berserker, but for the intricate Viking knots and icy blue-black metal.  Also note the medieval style leather wrapped around the ammo clip.

By BFS

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Afterburn SMG
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This SMG is a continuation of Madroce's Afterburn series, which include an MP5 and an SAR, all rust and racing checks, fire symbols and orange, orange, orange. This one's got an Oxum's sticker and an angry killer whale scratched into the receiver above the ammo clip. There's a big bad fire symbol on the back, which you'll see every time you take aim, and a laughing Madroce skull to find, if you look carefully.

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Deadeye SAR
Deadeye SAR
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Speaking of Rust, here's an SAR that's been around the block a few hundred times, then left outside in the rain for twenty years.  But it's a hardy design, so with a little patchwork and a squirt of WD-40, it's good as new. 

Badaxe seems to focus on realistic guns in popular categories. While this narrows his material down to just a few meshes, he does well with the ones he chooses.  We like the scrap metal screwed to the gun body, the imperfect welds, and the sense of profound disrepair.  Note the tiny daub of red on the gun sight, the only new paint on the weapon.

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Heavy Door Builder's
Heavy Door Builder's
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Here's a rare two-sided armored door by Sfonsper. One side's a mix of concrete and reinforced steel, the other in some kind of ballistic, anti-explosive material.  It looks very substantial, and nobody's going to think they're getting through this door without some serious chemical assistance.

Although the door looks like an armored door on steriods, it's no tougher than any other armored door in the game.  Of course, that's as tough as they get.  It should look good on most bases, but makes a poor match for the Aztec / tribal skins we've been seeing recently.

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DeadThing
DeadThing
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Another Shedmon masterpiece. This time it's the rock you spawn at the beach with, only now its a fossilized, dead...thing.  With teeth. Shedmon's skins usually come with extra teeth, all of them sharp in a hungry mouth.  

Although it looks like a well-armed oyster, the dead thing may once have been attached to a body, and then you'd have had yourself a real monster. Either way, now it's just an interesting rock.

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AK47 Scalp
AK47 Scalp
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Last, we have this dark AK47 by Zepp which depicts a head-shot skull with scalp and muscle still attached and stretched across the weapon like taffy.  Yuck. We're no experts, but we thought scalps came off cleaner than this.  No doubt the internet knows...

The rest of the gun is painted stark midnight blue and black, with a bone white shoulder brace and black tape winding round the ammo clip. A grim killer's weapon.

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xtab's Rust Skin Pix

A lot of good skins this week, especially doors. Doors offer a nice, big canvas to paint on, and they make a huge difference to base aesthetics, but not all of them are going to be approved.  Nevertheless, here are the four best doors we could find. Our favorite this week: The Ritual Face Mask, by Mishka and Stonemason.

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Virulent Set
Virulent Set
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Andrey, Estavos, and Hatson collaborated on this fine matched pick axe and metal hatchet set we feature today. The tools have got hand worked leather, dark wood handles, and bands of what looks like rattlesnake skin near the top and bottom of the handle. Though the blades are mildly worn and tarnished, the tools are handsome and well made. Drop by any of the three artists' workshops to see the hatchet, and a lot more!

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Northern Forester Set
Northern Forester Set
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Next up we have the Northern Forester set by Mishka and Sfonsper. It's rugged, cold weather clothing, real mountain man stuff--you can practically smell it through your monitor. Both the hoodie and the pants look to be pre-apocalypse manufacture, but leather straps and patches have since been added.

The pants feature a couple of leather patches above the knee and a prominent fanny pack / cod piece that's bound to draw plenty of commentary from your fellow players. 

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Ritual Face Mask
Ritual Face Mask
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This metal face mask has a deceptive wood appearance, with a leather cap and crude, caveman finger paint on the face and forehead.  It's not a friendly face by any means, and is the sort of thing you find staring down at you in silence as you struggle with your bonds. Pray what comes next is quick.

We love the quality here, and find the mask Rusty, primal, and savage, a perfect fit for the game. Although the mask looks like it may belong to the Northern Forester set, it does not.  It's a collaboration between Mishka and Stonemason, and stands alone. 

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Fortified Castle Door
Fortified Castle Door
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Here's a tough looking wooden door for your personal castle, reinforced with metal studs and braces in the front, and a wooden crossbar in the back.  A simple pattern in blue paint marks the front, and the door looks like it's been through a lot.

Unfortunately it's just a wood door. Though it may have survived fire, flood and siege, modern explosives will blow it down in seconds.  These doors are good when you're just starting your base and need something to keep out the wolves while you smelt up some metal frags. Just don't rely on it for long.

By Nevil112 and MDemon

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Ronin
Ronin
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Named for the roving bands of masterless samurai who plagued feudal Japan, Ronin is a quick, hard hitting tool of destruction on the cheap. The crossbow sports a braided design hung in red cloth, once luxurious but now a bit down at the heels. 

It's got its share of dirt and tarnish, but the weapon is not beyond redemption, much like the ronin of its name--taken in and polished up, it will provide a lifetime of service.

By LittleRanger

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Artist's Door
Artist's Door
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Another beautiful sheet metal door by Vitalik, the Artist's Door looks like the continuation of last week's Blacksmith Door, a similarly fine wrought iron door straight out of a hardware store circa 1974.

This door's got similar features--a pleasing wrought iron pattern in outdoor shades and hues like you might see on a garden gate or backyard patio. The frumpy paint conceals decades of dirt and rust, but will do more to brighten up your grubby man-cave than just about any other skin you could buy.

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Wrong Way
Wrong Way
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The spirit of Salvador Dali haunts the Workshop these days, mostly flitting about Shedmon's shop, whispering in his ear and guiding his hand. Shedmon's work ranges from hopelessly weird to divinely inspired, and we are blessed today by the Gods and the Muses.

At first glance, this looks like a metal door with a skeleton strapped to the front with chains, but on closer inspection you'll see the skeleton is metallic and riveted to the door like a steel crucifixion. The arms are crossed in front of the body with fingers pointing in either direction as if to say you'll find nothing good behind this door.

Very creative.  We think the door behind the skeleton could have used a little more detail, but that's just a quibble. If you're looking for attention, hang the Wrong Way door outside your base.

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Alive God
Alive God
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Our fourth door this week is Alive God by Jesin. It's a bit similar to some of the Aztec and Tiki skins we've been seeing recently, but in more of a native North American direction...or maybe a Tibetan one.  We see elements from both, but either way you go it's tribal and spiritual and all that kind of stuff.  

Golden spikes or teeth will make raiders question just what kind of spirits lurk within, but we fear the richly decorated door may draw them in. Plan your traps accordingly.

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DoDo Hatchet
DoDo Hatchet
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And now for something completely different, Badtrip presents the DoDo Hatchet, slightly reptilian stone DoDo bird head on a stick. It's got a tough beak and an enigmatic Mona Lisa smile, like it's got a secret and the joke's on you.

While you won't keep it forever, this stone hatchet's got enough soul to help see you through your wipe or beach reset back to the metal tool fast lane. 

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Emergency Sleeping Bag
Emergency Sleeping Bag
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An emergency sleeping bag in the colors and materials we all identify as "survival", this bag made it through the apocalypse filthy but intact. It's clearly pre-apocalypse manufacture, with the mysterious word Pandora running down the middle.

Maybe whoever first opened these emergency supplies ought to have thought twice.  This bag is paired with the Pandora large wooden chest, and we all know what happened when that box got opened, so watch out. If you want to see the companion box, drop by Estavos' workshop for look.

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