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Water Dragon Boss
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Water boss event
Description
Water Dragon
A roaming ocean boss for Rust that hunts occupied boats, pursues submarines, and attacks swimmers.
The Water Dragon dives beneath the surface and rises to fire cannonballs at tugboats, player boats and their crews. It can swim under RHIBs and rowboats to flip them, then circle back for anyone thrown into the water. Go deeper in a submarine and it can follow you with torpedoes.
Bring it down and its scrap-metal body explodes across the water. Recover floating loot from the wreckage or dive for the optional locked crate on the seafloor.
Run the Event Your Way
- Choose its territory. Send the Dragon along the Cargo Ship route or let it roam within a set radius around a random offshore spawn.
- Tune the encounter. Adjust spawn and respawn timers, boss health, attack damage, and loot through the in-game admin UI.
- Track the fight. Players can locate the Dragon on the map and see its health bar when they damage it.
- Customize the rewards. Use vanilla loot or integrate with AlphaLoot or Loottable.
Commands and Permission
| Command or permission | What it does |
|---|---|
/waterdragon | Opens the in-game admin UI. |
waterdragon.target <player name or Steam ID> | Spawns a Dragon to hunt the specified player. Works from the server console or RCON. |
waterdragon.use | Grants access to the admin UI. |
Default configuration
WaterDragon.json
json
| 1 | { |
| 2 | "Config version": { |
| 3 | "Major": 1, |
| 4 | "Minor": 8, |
| 5 | "Patch": 0 |
| 6 | }, |
| 7 | "Automatic patrol enabled": true, |
| 8 | "Initial spawn delay (minutes)": 30.0, |
| 9 | "Respawn delay (minutes)": 60.0, |
| 10 | "Random local roam enabled": false, |
| 11 | "Random local roam radius (metres)": 150.0, |
| 12 | "Random local roam attack distance (metres)": 100.0, |
| 13 | "Shared health": 1000.0, |
| 14 | "Health bar enabled": true, |
| 15 | "Health bar anchor min": "0 0.95", |
| 16 | "Health bar anchor max": "0.19 1", |
| 17 | "Bullet damage multiplier": 0.04, |
| 18 | "Explosive ammo damage multiplier": 0.1, |
| 19 | "C4 damage per direct hit": 250.0, |
| 20 | "Cannonballs per volley": 3, |
| 21 | "Cannonball damage multiplier": 1.0, |
| 22 | "Torpedo damage multiplier": 1.0, |
| 23 | "Cannon volley cooldown (seconds)": 12.0, |
| 24 | "Stop pursuing after target stops attacking (seconds)": 40.0, |
| 25 | "Ignore abandoned target (seconds)": 180.0, |
| 26 | "Unsuccessful chase timeout (seconds)": 65.0, |
| 27 | "Wreckage lifetime (seconds)": 30.0, |
| 28 | "Death crate count": 2, |
| 29 | "Death crate lifetime (minutes)": 30.0, |
| 30 | "Economics reward (0 disables)": 0.0, |
| 31 | "ServerRewards points (0 disables)": 0, |
| 32 | "Death explosion marker lifetime (minutes, 0 to disable)": 10.0, |
| 33 | "Death crate loot provider (vanilla, alphaloot, loottable)": "vanilla", |
| 34 | "AlphaLoot profile for death crates": "", |
| 35 | "Loottable preset for death crates": "waterdragon_death_crate", |
| 36 | "Seafloor locked crate enabled": true, |
| 37 | "Seafloor locked crate lifetime (minutes)": 30.0, |
| 38 | "Seafloor locked crate hack time (seconds)": 300.0, |
| 39 | "Seafloor locked crate loot provider (vanilla, alphaloot, loottable)": "vanilla", |
| 40 | "AlphaLoot profile for seafloor locked crate": "", |
| 41 | "Loottable preset for seafloor locked crate": "waterdragon_seafloor_crate" |
| 42 | } |
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Rating★ 0.0
Version1.0.0
Compile check✓ Passed Nov 8, 2026
PlatformRust
CategoryPlugins
CompatibleOxide · Carbon
Size266 KB
PublishedNov 8, 2026
UpdatedNov 8, 2026
✓ Reviewed for safety and integrity