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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! Steam post image This includes all the DLC's and the Soundtrack! CHARITABLE RUST EVENT Just dropping in another reminder that Charit…
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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 players are given special…
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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 suit The Lumberjack suit…
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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 Kitchen. WCK is first to th…
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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 mode which takes away th…
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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 Category) 386,889 peak concu…
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Trainyard Unloading
TRAINYARD UNLOADING TOWER The above-ground rail network is now connected up to the Trainyard area, and the Trainyard has a new tower that can unload certain types of train wagons. Railway sidings will now sometimes spaw…
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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 scoring format. $100k prize p…
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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 adjustments when needed. The fus…
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Community Update 243
Custom Rust Deskmats Steam post image Last week we announced our exciting partnership with EpicDesk! They are a custom desk/mouse pad producer that specialize in limited edition campaigns for content creators! They have…
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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 it's inception. While th…
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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 assets in order to provid…
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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 a reward. These eggs ca…
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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. This is just a tech te…
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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 darkening volumes to inter…
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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 new monument has been ad…
