On today's chart 346K views since yesterday

Willjum builds a clan-sized Rust base with nobody to share chores

His solo survival sequel turns tea farming into an industrial building project, complete with rooftop beehives under armed guard.

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 345,614 views.

I Built a clan base as a solo in Rust...

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1:07Day two begins with beehives, berries and ingredients for resource-boosting teas.
5:25An ambush near a vending machine yields a turret, jackhammer and scrap.
8:10Willjum begins the clan-sized base's exterior shell and layered defences.
14:45Industrial piping, electric furnaces and a wind turbine expand the solo operation.
18:45Rooftop beehives get turret protection, but cold temperatures create a production problem.

An auto turret guarding rooftop beehives is a very Willjum solution to life in Rust. Keeping the bees warm enough to work turns out to be another matter.

In "I Built a clan base as a solo in Rust...", he takes on the construction and maintenance normally shared by a group. The adventure added roughly 346,000 views since yesterday, following the fresh start we reported here. This is the next chapter, beginning with his second day on the server rather than another restart.

Willjum's reasoning is straightforward: he says changes to the unmodified game favour large clans, so a solo player needs to adapt. His answer combines the farming routines of his recent videos with a much more conspicuous home. "I'll be putting myself on the map, and I better be ready to defend," he says as construction begins.

An ambush near a vending machine supplies a valuable head start: he takes down a geared player and comes away with a turret, a jackhammer and scrap. Tea buffs and the jackhammer speed up resource gathering. Then come layers of defences, electric furnaces, industrial piping and a wind turbine. The quiet farmer is becoming his own utilities department, while still having to survive every trip outside.

The rooftop apiary supplies the awkward contrast. A turret can protect the hives from players, but even installing heaters doesn't get honeycomb production going in the cold.

For viewers catching up, the preceding chapter is November's "How a solo with 15,217 hours plays the new age of rust...". Several commenters ask for clearer sequel labelling so they can follow these longer survival stories in order.

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The facts

Channel: Willjum
Subscribers: 2,010,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 2,837,168
Channel views, pace per day: 965,780 (on a normal day: 323,400)
Video published: November 8, 2026
Video views so far: 670,111 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day: 345,569 (on a normal day: 588,985)

The numbers

The sequel drew hundreds of thousands of views since yesterday. That audience does not make this an unusually fast start for Willjum's regular videos.

subscribers

2,010,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

467,746,435

views per day

965,780

typical day: 323,400

the video

views

670,111

likes