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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 in the spirit, we have…
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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 large backpack, allowing…
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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, which is why this blog is l…
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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 it just so happens tha…
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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 of January with up to 5…
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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 undergone significant evolution…
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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! Steam post image In the last 10 years, the gam…
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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! The Labour of Love award…
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COUPLING THE RAILS
ABOVE AND BELOW RAIL LINKING This month we are finally connecting the above-ground rail network with the underground. While playing on servers with a world size of at least 4250, you will find one or two rail tunnels al…
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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 CHARITY October 27th-29th S…
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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 players are given special…
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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 only a certain amount of t…
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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 Event! October 14th & 15th…
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AIRBORNE
ATTACK HELICOPTER The Attack Helicopter is now available to purchase from the Air Wolf store at Bandit Camp for 2250 scrap. Gunner The main special feature of this helicopter is the gunner seat. On the front is a turret…
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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. Steam post image More details on this coming soon, watch our socials in the upcoming weeks!…
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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 seconds are left until…






