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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 are grinding around the…
Event3 changesStoreMaps - Rust
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 further. By making prog…
Event82 changes1 numericFix - Rust
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 by one of Warhammer 40,…
Event10 changesStoreServer - Rust
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 been overwhelmingly nega…
Security94 changesFixGameplay - Rust
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 here. FAQs for the beta…
Event12 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Rust
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 some of the more persiste…
Store40 changesFixGameplay - Rust
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, such as Primitive and Har…
Event62 changesFixGameplay - Rust
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 event! There will be one sto…
Event9 changesStoreUI/audio - Rust
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 as your friends! To invi…
Store45 changesFixServer - Rust
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 reworked with taller stalks…
Security136 changes2 numericFix - Rust
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 because Global Warfare…
Event6 changesServerGameplay - Rust
Warhammer 40,000 is coming to Rust!
Facepunch Studios is very excited to announce a landmark collaboration in the form of a new crossover: Warhammer 40,000 is officially coming to Rust! In this alliance with Warhammer, Facepunch will bring the grimdark fu…
Event3 changesGameplayStore - Rust
JUNGLE UPDATE
JUNGLE BIOME We've added the first new biome to the game since the original introduction of the procedural world generation: Jungle! The jungle biome covers part of the temperate coastal (tier 0) area where new players…
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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 given special eggs as a…
- Rust
SOFT REFRESH
DEPLOYABLE DEBRIS [SOFTCORE] 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 base back up a…
- Rust
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 access Premium Servers, your…
