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HALLOWEEN 2026
HALLOWEEN EVENT The yearly Halloween event is now enabled! Once roughly every two in-game days, the Candy Hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as much candy as you can, then top…
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LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK This patch we are introducing cows and sheep. What resources can THEY GIVE? Both produce dung , cows produce milk, and sheep produce wool . They can also be harvested for meat, bones and…
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BREACH AND CLEAR
MONUMENT BLOCKERS Monument blockers are a new obstacle we're adding to monuments with red keycard puzzle rooms. They’re intended to slow down early access to the loot at these monuments. They…
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POWER TRIP
PLAYER MAINTAINED MONUMENTS This month we're releasing a set of features we call Player Maintained Monuments - tying together our existing monuments in new and interesting ways while pushing…
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COMMON GROUND
APARTMENT COMPLEX The apartment complex is a new monument that allows players getting started with a wipe to find a place to call home. Simply talk to the receptionist in the lobby to get started…
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BUILT DIFFERENT
PLAYER UPDATE New Player Model We’ve overhauled the player model from the ground up. This includes improved meshes and materials, more realistic proportions on a new rig, expanded head and hair…
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UPGRADE HARD, RAID HARDER
WORKBENCH UPGRADES Workbenches have received a whole new upgrade system - along with nine upgrades to find and customise your benches with! Each upgrade provides a different bonus effect, and you…
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SPRING CLEAN
NEW ITEM: ARMOURED LADDER HATCH The Armoured Ladder Hatch is a new top-tier construction. A direct upgrade from the Metal Ladder Hatch, the Armoured Ladder Hatch is built for players who want…
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SHIPSHAPE
EXTENDED DAYTIME This month we've extended the amount of time each day has sunlight by around 20 minutes. The duration of night is unchanged (around 10 minutes). This should hopefully allow for…
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NAVAL UPDATE
PLAYER MADE BOATS Player-made boats are here, providing a new way to explore the seas, including the Deep Sea! Place the new Boat Building Station deployable in the water and get building with…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 268
INCOMING NAVAL UPDATE - STAGING In the event you've been living under a rock the Naval Update is coming with the February wipe! We're encouraging anyone with the extra time and passion for its…
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SURVIVING 12 YEARS
12 YEARS Servers are now wiped and Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, but we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off, which is why…
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Earlier notices (88)
Final Round of Voting - Rust in the Steam Awards
We're through to the final round! But in case you're new here, over the years, Rust has undergone some huge changes - including graphic, physics, and engine updates and rebuilds, all because we’ve…
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SEASONS BEATINGS
HAPPY HOLIDAYS From everyone at Facepunch, we'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Christmas Event is once again live! If you're new to the island, here's what you can…
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Vote for Rust! The Steam Awards are now live!
It's that time of year again... The Steam Awards are here and the 'Labor of Love' award perfectly describes our past year as we soon hit twelve years of development! Day in and day out, our teams…
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PIVOT OR DIE
PROGRESSION CHANGES Continuing from last month’s controversial Meta Shift changes and our push to make meaningful experimental changes to Rust’s progression, this month we’re taking things a step…
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WARHAMMER 40,000 X RUST DLC PACK
THE DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG - DLC SKINS The infamous Death Korps of Krieg march into Rust, bringing their grim, war-forged resolve to the island. This pack delivers battle-scarred war gear, inspired…
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META SHIFT
BLUEPRINT FRAGMENTS The current progression meta has grown stale, moving too fast and becoming too easy over the years, with scrap inflation and scrap being everywhere. We don't believe this has…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 267
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Rust Mobile is coming! Facepunch has teamed up with Level Infinite to bring you Rust, Anytime, Everywhere. The closed beta begins early November. You can sign up for testing…
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MAINTENANCE
MAINTENANCE This month’s update is a little lighter than recent, focused on tackling a number of long-standing bugs and improvements. We’ve been working through community feedback to smooth out…
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HARDER CORE
HARDCORE REFRESH Hardcore mode is making a comeback this month, bringing with it some community requested changes and a few new tweaks we've been planning for a while. Our goal with game modes,…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 266
GLOBAL WARFARE IS BACK! FancyOrb's Global Warfare 3 starts right now on Twitch! All your favorite creators, big and small, will have Twitch Drops enabled if they're streaming Rust during the…
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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
RUST 2025: MID-YEAR RECAP & SNEAK PEEK PARTY SYSTEM As part of one of our long term goals of reducing friction for new players, we bring the party system to make it easier to connect to a server…
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NERFED, BUFFED, BALANCED?
JUNGLE POLISH One of the loudest bits of feedback we heard after last month's Jungle update : “I can’t find anything!” Fair. The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle. Wild hemp has been…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 265
FANCYORB'S GLOBAL WARFARE As some of you may know, these masterpieces take some time. In case you missed it here's the absolute cinema of the Global Warfare 2 event. We draw attention to this also…
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Warhammer 40,000 is coming to Rust!
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5377070/d3ea270c3f20ed63be255a515b024bd929e75aba.png Facepunch Studios is very excited to announce a landmark collaboration in the form of a new crossover: Warhammer 40,000 is…
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JUNGLE UPDATE
JUNGLE BIOME We've added the first new biome to the game since the original introduction of the procedural world generation: Jungle!…
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EASTER 2025
EASTER HUNT April 10th - April 24th, 2025 Starting today, every 24-38 in-game hours an Easter egg hunt will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many eggs as you can. The top 3 players are…
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SOFT REFRESH
DEPLOYABLE DEBRIS A selection of deployable objects in your base will now leave behind a destroyed version when killed in the softcore game mode, allowing you to repair them to quickly get your…
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PREMIUM SERVERS
Today at 19:00 UTC , we're issuing a mandatory update - We are rolling out Premium Servers, an experimental way to filter out cheat users and create a better experience for legit players. To…
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The Crafting Update
COOKING WORKBENCH The cooking workbench is a new deployable that allows you to cook up some new food recipes. Mixing table recipes can also be crafted here.…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 264
TETRIS IN RUST Few months ago you may have seen a teaser for a giant GameBoy within Rust that you can actually play Tetris on. Philieve Rust has done it again! This is an electrical masterpiece…
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PRIMITIVE
PRIMITIVE GAMEMODE The early game of Rust can be the most exciting, unfortunately players rush to fully automatic rifles as fast as possible to get an edge over their enemies. What if the early…
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LUNAR NEW YEAR 2025
LUNAR NEW YEAR Happy Lunar New Year to everyone! This year, we celebrate the Year of the Snake. In Chinese culture, the snake symbolises wisdom, intuition, and transformation —qualities that…
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11 YEARS STRONG
11 YEARS Servers are now wiped and Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, but we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off, which is why…
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SEASON'S BEATINGS
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! From everyone at Facepunch, we'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Christmas Event is once again live!…
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POLISH AND PROGRESS
RUST'S 11TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS We can't believe it either. It feels like just yesterday that we were celebrating 10 years of Rust, getting emotional over our recap video , but it is true - Rust…
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ARMED AND ANIMATED
T1 HANDMADE SMG This month we're adding new weapons, firstly filling a gap in the weapon lineup, the Handmade SMG is unlockable near the end of the T1 tech tree.…
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HALLOWEEN 2024
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The yearly Halloween event is now enabled! https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20201023/halloween_ghostsheets.jpg Once roughly every two in-game days, the Candy Hunt event will…
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THE WORLD UPDATE 2.0
RADTOWN One of the emblematic locations from legacy Rust makes a comeback: Radtown. https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20240928/rust_worldUpdate_radtown_35.jpg We turned this monument from a bunch…
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TIME TO KILL
DIGITAL CLOCK Meet the Digital Clock, a new craftable item, a simple but powerful addition to your base's electrical setup. https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20240823/digital_clock_02.jpg When…
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STAY ALERT
TIN CAN ALARM This month, we're adding the Tin Can Alarm, a new primitive trap made from hanging tin cans. https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20240729/tincan_alarm_02_1080p.jpg…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 262
FACEPUNCH'S 15TH BIRTHDAY! https://files.facepunch.com/ashcook/1b1211b1/fp_15%20-%2050OFF%20-16x9.png Happy Birthday to us! Facepunch officially turned 15 not too long ago and we wanted to…
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ROAD RENEGADES
MOTORBIKES https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20240703/motorbike_riding_01.jpg Motorbikes can now be found at several monument locations. One is a single-person bike and one has a sidecar as well,…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 261
EPIC DESK MOUSEPAD CREATOR COLLABS https://files.facepunch.com/Errn/1b1911b1/epicdeskbanner.png We're back with some amazing EpicDesk creator collabs for giant mousepads! BLOOPRINT…
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SEISMIC SHIFT
SEISMIC SENSOR This month we're adding the Seismic Sensor, a new electricity-powered deployable. https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20240604/seismic_sensor_01.jpg When powered, it will listen for…
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META MADNESS
AIMCONE REDUCTION Any movement in rust would modify your baseline Aimcone so that shots taken while in motion were somewhat inaccurate. This was supposed to discourage "running and gunning". The…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 260
RUSTIC REEF AMUSEMENT PARK Last blog I showcased many of the big-hitters in the Rust Creative Arts community. This month they have literally combined forces to play together for an entire month…
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WAVES OF CHANGE
CARGO SHIP DOCKING We’ve given both Harbors a fresh coat of paint this month, with a significant amount of visual and gameplay changes. These changes support the new Cargo Ship docking process,…
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EASTER 2024
EGG HUNT For the next week, every 24-38 hours in-game hours an Easter egg hunt will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many eggs as you can. The top 3 players are given special eggs as a…
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LIGHTING THE WAY
TUTORIAL ISLAND https://files.facepunch.com/Errn/1b0711b1/rust_tutorial_island_001.jpg A common story we hear from new players is that they have seen their friends/Twitch Streamer/YouTuber playing…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 259
ART, ART, AND MORE ART! Some old and some new. Few names in the art scene you all might recognize! This is our rust art appreciation post. We love you!! Monstera gracing us with awesomeness.…
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LUNAR NEW YEAR 2024
LUNAR NEW YEAR Happy Lunar New Year to everyone! This year, we celebrate the Year of the Dragon. In Chinese culture, the dragon is a symbol of courage, power, and majesty. And to help everyone get…
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BAGS TO RICHES
BACKPACKS Backpacks have been one of Rust's most highly requested additions for several years, and what is a survival game without backpacks? This month, we're excited to bring you the small and…
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SURVIVING A DECADE
10 YEARS OF RUST Servers are now wiped and Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, but we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off,…
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The Labor of Love Award - Final Voting
Thank you to everyone that nominated Rust into the final round of voting for the Steam Awards! Voting is simple - you can vote for us above in the Labor of Love category. We need you to do it! But…
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MERRY RUSTMAS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS! From everyone at Facepunch, we'd all like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! Rust and its DLC packs are currently on sale till the end…
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10 YEARS OF RUST
RUST 10TH ANNIVERSARY This month marks Rust's 10th birthday. We’ll celebrate from today till the 16th of December with in-game birthday cake, hats, throwbacks and some new items. Rust has…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 258
STEAM AWARDS Rust's 10th Anniversary is coming up and we would love nothing more than for all you loyal Rust players to nominate for us in the Steam Awards - Labor of Love !…
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Vote for Rust in the Steam Awards!
The Steam Awards are once again upon us and this year, we’d really appreciate getting your nomination for Rust in the `Labor of Love` category, as our big baby turns 10 years old this December!…
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COUPLING THE RAILS
ABOVE AND BELOW RAIL LINKING https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20231102/railroadlink_01.jpg This month we are finally connecting the above-ground rail network with the underground. While playing…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 257
SPOOKY SCENES Rust daVinci blessed us with a walkthrough of their Halloween town on the Method Games RP server . Village will be up till Nov. 2nd if anyone wants to check it out! BREAST CANCER…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Halloween events are now enabled! Once roughly every two in-game days, a candy hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many candies as you can. The top 3…
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SOLID FOUNDATIONS
TURRET INTERFACING A common complaint we have been hearing for a very long time as the over-use and abuse of turrets. To combat this we've added "Turret Interference" Basically this means that…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 256
CHARITABLE RUST 2023 - WATER Twitch Drops! October 12th - October 19th Watch your favorite streamers and earn Twitch drops all week. Make sure to get synced! https://twitch.facepunch.com/ Main…
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AIRBORNE
ATTACK HELICOPTER https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20230904/attackheli_airfield_01.jpg The Attack Helicopter is now available to purchase from the Air Wolf store at Bandit Camp for 2250 scrap.…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 255
TWITCH DROPS Save The date! September 7th-14th we will be having a Twitch Drops event featuring some of your favorite creators. https://files.facepunch.com/Errn/1b1711b1/drops.png More details on…
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WOUNDED
WOUNDED INFORMATION I've changed the wounded UI so that it now displays additional information relating to your wounded status. It will now tell you the probability of recovery as well as how many…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 254
RUSTOPIA INVITATIONAL July 29th-30th https://files.facepunch.com/Errn/1b2611b1/DiscordHeader.png Rustopia Invitational Tournament is this weekend and they boosting up the Project Hope charity!…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 253
RUST IS ON SALE! From now until July 13th Rust and other Facepunch titles are on sale! Just in time for our new Abyss content being released on the 6th. wink wink…
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BAGS TO BATTLES
SLEEPING BAG LIMITS https://files.facepunch.com/paddy/20230530/sleepingbags_limit.jpg This month we’ve decided to limit the maximum number of respawn options to 15 per player. This is a big change…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 252
CREATOR PROGRAM Earlier this week we launched our Facepunch Creator Program in efforts to collab with our creators more. This program is a work in progress and mostly lives in a special private…
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Twitch Rivals Rust III Event
Twitch Rivals Rust III May 16th-20th Twitch Drops 8 Teams 160 Creators 100k Prize Pool Custom Map In-Game Challenges Last Team Standing wins! Tune into the event, live on Twitch, starting at 11:00…
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R.U.S.T.
NUCLEAR MISSILE SILO This month we bring you an all-new monument that we have been quietly working on for the past few months, the Nuclear Missile Silo. While exploring the map you will run across…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 251
TWITCH DROPS SAVE THE DATE! May 16th-20th! https://files.facepunch.com/Errn/1b1911b1/tr.png Make sure you are synced at twitch.facepunch.com to get your skins once they're live! More details to…
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MAKE YOUR MARK
MAP MARKERS Map markers have received an upgrade this month, with the maximum amount of markers increasing to 5 and a new set of controls to help you store useful information along with your map.…
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EYE IN THE SKY
DRONE The Drone is a new player-controlled craftable deployable, operated from the Computer Station. Easily damaged from impacts. Can be picked up and deployed just about anywhere - but it doesn't…
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INDUSTRIAL UPDATE
INDUSTRIAL Bring new levels of efficiency and unlock new avenues for automation with this month's set of Industrial entities. With these new tools you can move items around your base as well as…
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Community Update 249
TWITCH DROPS They are back! Join us! Starting Sunday January 15th at 1PM PST / 9PM GMT for the next Trust in Rust Charity tournament!…
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SURVIVING 10 YEARS
BACK TO WORK Servers are now wiped, Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off, which is why…
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Gingerbread Mines
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! From everyone at Facepunch, we'd all like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! The Christmas Event is once again live! If you haven't…
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The Big QoL Update
RUST 9TH BIRTHDAY Rust turns 9 this month, that's 9 years of weekly and monthly updates. We’ll celebrate for one day only on 11th December with in-game birthday cake and hats.…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 248
TWITCH DROPS Charitable Rust is in just a few days! https://files.facepunch.com/errn/1b1411b1/CharitableRust%20Loader.jpg November 19th-21st There will be 48 hours of exclusive drops on the…
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PROTOTYPE 17
PROTOTYPE 17 Arms manufacturers contracted by Cobalt were tasked with producing a new side arm to meet the personal defense requirements of the organization. After an exhaustive review of…
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COMMUNITY UPDATE 247
RUST IS ON SALE! Now through November 2nd Rust is on sale at 33% off across the board! https://files.facepunch.com/errn/1b2611b1/ls_2022-10_HalloweenSale.jpg This includes all the DLC's and the…
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HALLOWEEN 2022
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Halloween events are now enabled! Once roughly every two in-game days, a candy hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many candies as you can. The top 3…
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The Lumberjack
LUMBERJACK PACK This month we're introducing a new addition to Rust's permanent store, the Lumberjack Pack. The Lumberjack Pack contains five items, four tools and one hazmat reskin. Lumberjack…
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Community Update 246
Charitable Rust Skin Contest Charitable Rust is back! Saturday November 19th & Sunday November 20th, 2022 For 2 days Rustafied will be hosting a charity event to raise money for World Central…
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Hardcore Gamemode
Hardcore Gamemode A major part of Rust is its brutal nature and ruthless PvP, when we added the softcore gamemode last year we saw and have continued to see feedback that many of you want a game…
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Community Update 245
Rivals Recap Settle in, we've got a lot to cover. Rust x Twitch Rivals 2 was a huge success! First we'll cover some of the Twitch stats surrounding the event. Aug - 9th - Aug 13 (Rust Twitch…
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Trainyard Unloading
TRAINYARD UNLOADING TOWER https://files.facepunch.com/Alistair/08/03/5e88W1/RustClient_4qxDMc4why.jpg The above-ground rail network is now connected up to the Trainyard area, and the Trainyard has…
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Community Blog 244
Twitch Rivals is back! SAVE THE DATE! August 9th Rust + Twitch + Rustoria bring you the next edition of chaos. 4 Teams, 5 Days, 40 players per team, new custom map with an elimination-based…
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July Update
Combat Balance Since the release of the Combat Update, we've monitored player feedback and overall we're happy with the state of the gunplay in Rust. We will continue to listen, and make…
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Community Update 243
Custom Rust Deskmats https://files.facepunch.com/errn/1b1511b1/epicdeskhorizontallogo.png Last week we announced our exciting partnership with EpicDesk ! They are a custom desk/mouse pad producer…
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Combat Update
Combat Changes Today, we're releasing an update to the gunplay in Rust. The initial implementation of the weapons in Rust was done nearly 7 years ago and hasn't been significantly modified since…
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Above-ground Trains Update
Above-Ground Trains We wanted to get some trains onto the above-ground rails this month. We have some more train content in the works, but for this initial release we're mostly reusing existing…
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Happy Easter
Easter Hunt For the next week, every 24-38 hours in-game hours an Easter egg hunt will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many eggs as you can. The top 3 players are given special eggs as…
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Zipline & Rail Update
Procedural Rail Network The first iteration of the procedural rail network is now live! Any map size 4250 or larger should have a single railway in the shape a ring going around the entire island.…
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March 2022 Update
Monument Lighting This month we’ve made visual improvements to some of our older monuments to get them more consistent with the quality of our new content. This includes changes such as adding…
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Arctic Update
This months update brings a new monument, the Arctic Research Base, snowmobiles, polar bears, AI update, spray can item, QOL changes and much more! Arctic Research Base In this month's update, a…
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