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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 been around for this before, here's what you can expect:

Every once in a while you will hear the sound of jingle bells. Run outside and look for a gift! Two gifts are spawned per player, in a radius of about 40m from where you are standing. Run up and bash it open to receive your Christmas presents. They come in three sizes: small, medium, and large. If you have enough small presents stashed, you can "trade up" to a medium or large. The contents of each present vary, but you'll find a mix of resources, weapons, and candy.



Once again, you will be able to find Santa hats and reindeer antlers, both of which can be worn and provide a decent amount of protection. There’s also a lickable candy cane club, and two types of stockings. If you hang a stocking inside your base when the jingle bells ring the stocking will fill up with loot. The larger stocking has a higher chance for better items and both last around 5-10 refills.



The advent calendar is a craftable deployable available to everyone during the Christmas event. Once placed you can claim an in-game surprise once every in-real-life day.



The Christmas event ends on January 5th @ 19:00GMT

Have fun!


Gingerbread / Cake Mines



Run, run fast as you can, the gingerbread men are coming! Gingerbread houses have mysteriously started appearing throughout the world, leading to an underground dungeon, smelling a little like grandma's baking, but be careful, it's not going to be a cakewalk if you enter!







Server owners can adjust the portal count using the xmasdungeon.xmaspopulation convar.


Ice King Pack



Today we're releasing a "cool" new item pack to the permanent item store, the Ice King pack! The pack includes three reskins:

Ice Throne Chair, Ice Facemask, & Ice Chestplate



A throne fit for the king of the north!





This pack will be available on the item store. The Ice Throne is a reskin of the chair item.


Rustmas Store Items



We have brought some items from previous years, now purchasable from the Rust Item Store.

The festive garland pack now includes a double door garland. If you've already purchased this pack you'll now be able to craft this item.




Christmas Competition





We are excited to announce Rust's second Rustmas base decorating competition!

We're looking for the best festive base Rust has ever seen!

I know a few of you are going to go ham on this! Hoping this Rustmas will be the best one yet. Go big or go home, right?

Winner



£120 worth of skins of their choosing and two Rust DLC keys.

Runner up



£75 worth of skins of their choosing and one Rust DLC key.

How To Submit



Once you’ve completed decorating your base, take some screenshots and upload the images to Twitter using the hashtag #Rustmas2022

The winner and runner up will be announced from Rust's official Twitter account on January 13th.

Please also be following the Rust Twitter so we can DM you. If we do not get a response within 1 week of the winner announcement a new winner will be chosen.

Evaluation



Submissions will be judged based on the following:

  • Creativity
  • Design

Judging will be performed by Facepunch Staff.

Bonus points if you remove the UI and your graphics are set higher than 1 :)

Terms


This competition is run by Facepunch Studios Ltd at Concept House, Elmore Green Road, Bloxwich, Walsall, UK. The competition ends on January 5th 2023 23:59UTC. No more than three entries per person. The winner and runner-up will be selected based on which Facepunch thinks is the most original/creative and any decisions Facepunch makes will be final. The winner and runner up must claim their prizes within one month of the closing date (which Facepunch may exchange for an alternative of the same or greater value). Our terms of service apply to any content you make for the competition: https://facepunch.com/legal. Winning entries must pick items from the Rust marketplace with market value.


Decorated Monuments


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.



In the January end of years blog, we'll talk more about how 2022 has gone, what we've achieved and what we learned as well as our upcoming plans.


MODULAR CAR CODE LOCKS



Car keys have been removed from the game and replaced with code locks, which should be a lot more useful. These can be added at a vehicle lift in the same way key locks were added, and for the same price (75 metal fragments).



Features:

  • Add, change, or remove code locks from a car at any vehicle lift.
  • Code locks prevent mounting the vehicle - except for taxi modules - and also prevent access to storage. Players in a taxi module cannot swap seats to any other type of module.
  • To capture a car with code locks, you can reduce the health of a seating module to 20% or less, which will enable an option to break the lock.
  • Alternatively, if you can push the car to a vehicle lift, a new code can be set there. Note that locked cars cannot be pushed in safe zones.
  • A mounted player can flip the Central Locking switch in a cockpit module to unlock all doors, temporarily disabling code access. Code locks on the exterior of the car will light up green instead of red. If all players in cockpit modules dismount, the central locking is automatically re-engaged.
  • After entering the correct code, players are automatically whitelisted, and won't need to enter the code again.



IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES HIGHLIGHTS



Planter Improvements
Harvest/Clone/Remove all plants in a planter in one action

Stone Spear
Stone spear is cheaper and quicker to craft

Miner's Hat Buff
Miner's hat now offers better protection values

Roof Rotation
Roof can now be rotated before placement

Grenade Crafting Times
All grenade crafting times have been reduced

Attack Helicopter Loot
Improved Attack Helicopter loot tables

Garge Doors Pickup
Equipping a Hammer to pickup the Garage door is no longer required

Armored Door HP
Armored door HP increased by 25%

Repair Cost Fixes
Repairing deployables no longer require components

Instrument Range
Increase pitch range on several instruments

Junkpile Scientists
Reduced the number of Scientists at junkpiles

M92 Sway
Reduced sway when aiming with the M92

Despawn times
Various high value items 5min -> 60min

IO Deployment
Various IO entities can be placed near floor level

Projectile_Invalid
Will show when you died first vs projectile_invalid

X Days Upkeep
Shows days of upkeep rather than >72 hours

No Components For Repair
Shotgun Trap, Garage Door, etc

UI Scaling
Fix small UI on 4k+ resolutions


CABOOSE AT OUTPOST



We've added a static (non-moving, indestructible) train caboose at the Outpost, which has the standard casino games inside: Poker, Slots, and the new Blackjack machine - so now you can play without the constant fear of death!



Find it at the small train platform.


EXTERNAL WALL DEBRIS





The debris system was introduced in 2019 to prevent the ability to replace walls and doors during raids immediately, we feel this system has worked well but often still see raids won purely from spamming walls. To make it a little fairer for the raiders, from today, external walls and gates now have the debris system applied.

When external gates or walls are destroyed, they'll now leave debris for 2 minutes.


WORLD EVENT NOTIFICATIONS



Players will now be automatically notified via a small UI prompt when world events begin, such as Cargoship, Oilrig crate, Ch47 Cargo etc. We hope this encourages players to engage with world events more actively and addresses a growing problem of players using third-party services to gain this information instantly before others and having an unfair advantage.

We acknowledge a UI notification is not the best solution, but for now, it'll put everyone on the same playing field while we work towards a better solution in the near future.


COMBAT QOL



Burst
Following last month's burst module implementation, I have made the following changes and improvements:

  • Burst can now be toggled using the "M" bind
  • Burst module slightly lowers aim cone


LR & MP5
The LR and MP5 has seen lower usage since the recoil changes, players who used to opt for the LR often now feel more confident using the AK, so we're experimenting with the following changes:

  • MP5 and LR now have inbuilt burst module

We'll continue monitoring and adjust accordingly in future updates.

Slug Ammo
Slug ammo is regularly used over large distances effectively, whilst it's great to see slug ammo used to a greater effect with the recent changes, we agree with player feedback it's too effective. The slug should be a hard-hitting option in close to mid-range combat and less effective over larger distances, so I've made the following changes:

  • Slug now does 50% damage at 40 meters+ instead of 75% damage at 80+
  • Slug does 100% damage from 0-20m instead of 0-10m



QUARRY UPDATE



Mining quarries have been updated to run on diesel fuel and output rates greatly improved. In the past, quarries have seen little to no use. We hope these improvements will encourage their use more. We'll be monitoring and tweaking accordingly.



In addition to spawning at the Dome, Oil Rigs and Junkyard, diesel fuel now spawns at the following monuments: Water Treatment Plant, Power Plant, Military Tunnels and Airfield.


OFFSHORE MONUMENTS




  • Lower lab count but larger
  • Oilrig reset timer increase
  • Cargoship event rarer



UPDATED COLORED IO



There were only 5 colors of wires originally (4 hose colors) which hasn't been enough to organize the creative builds the community has made!

Existing Colors

  • black
  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • yellow


New Colors

  • light blue
  • orange
  • pink
  • purple
  • white


Press "R" while looking at an existing wire to recolor it.


SEPARATE NETWORK GROUPS FOR TUNNELS



For some background, network groups are what Rust servers use to figure out which entities to network to players. It basically divides the world up into chunks and tracks which entities are within each chunk. This way the Rust server just needs to network the few chunks around each player.

Previously the world was divided up into a two dimensional grid of chunks, and that worked great for a long time, but then we added the underground tunnels. Using two dimensional network groups means the tunnels would network to players up on the surface, and players in the tunnel are being networked things from the surface, which isn't great because they can't see any of that so it's just wasted work.

I updated the network group system this month to add support for vertical layers. So now, instead of a just a single two dimensional grid, it essentially stacks multiple two dimensional grids on top of each other and uses entity's altitude to figure out which layer it belongs on.

Tunnel entities will no longer network to the surface, and the surface will no longer network to players in the tunnels. We have found that this can save up to 0.4ms of frametime on the surface by not networking tunnel NPCs to the client.


JUNKPILE AI



I've made a few improvements to help with some of the complaints that people have with Junkpiles.

The bushes that spawn with junkpiles now block AI line of sight. This should make the Scientists easier to spot when they're shooting at you because they will no longer stand in the middle of a bush.

I've also made the junkpile Scientists more defensive in nature, and they won't engage from as far as they used to.

Lastly, I've tweaked the AI data for the junkpile cover positions so they're fully in cover, which has the knock on effect of reducing return fire.


ANIMAL AI



I've added some biome and topology-specific functionality:

Animals will no longer roam directly to ocean-side locations, to help keep them away from beaches.

Polar bears will now only roam to arctic and tundra areas, and they will also now return to these areas if they need to leave briefly for any other reason.


WORLD FOOT QUICK-EAT



I've added a menu option for eating world foods, such as berries, corn, mushrooms, etc, directly from the ground. Look directly at the food and hold E then select "Eat".

You still receive seeds and other items as usual.


NETTING FIXED



Netting now allows you to walk above without getting stuck. You can also climb up and slide down without bouncing off the wall frames.


TURRET AUTH EASIER



Turret UI used to close after you authorized each player. The UI now stays open after each player you click, until you press "Esc".


WALL PLACEMENT IMPROVEMENT



Building jump ups used to be difficult when you had to look down precisely to get it to snap to the correct place. It now will correctly try to attach to the top of walls.


LOCKER FILL IMPROVEMENTS



Filling lockers was difficult with the amount of left click dragging required. You should now be able to mindlessly right click armor and have it go into all the correct slots.


SAM SITE PASS-THROUGH



It used to be devastating if enemies shot out your SAM sites & were able to shoot off a MLRS strike before you had a chance to react.

You can now pass power through the sam site & link it to a smart alarm to detect it being destroyed


STEAM NETWORKING POSTPONED



As mentioned in last month's blog, Steam networking was planned to be switched to the default networking layer for Rust today. Due to several issues discovered recently (now fixed), we're postponing enabling Steam networking by default until January, by then, we hope to be completely satisfied with server stability.

As a reminder: This change requires servers to have a separate Steam query port set via the -queryport server startup parameter. When no query port is set, the server will default to either game port + 1 or rcon port + 1, depending on which number is larger.

Hosts of shared servers will need to ensure the query port is forwarded correctly, which is why we are making this announcement ahead of time. Servers can be switched over to Steam Networking for testing via the -swnet startup parameter, which we recommend doing ahead of time in order to ensure a smooth transition.


CHRISTMAS UPDATE



On December 15th at 19:00GMT / 14:00 EST we'll be releasing a mandatory server and client update to enable the Xmas event and some festive features!


CHARITABLE RUST RECAP



On November 19th Rustafied held their 8th annual Charitable Rust event. They had event servers up where hundreds of content creators all took part in fun custom games, bed wars, carnivals, boat combat contests, and much more.



The community raised over $27,000 in donations alone.



We also put up some unique charity skins on the Rust item store for a week and the proceeds to that go towards the charity as well.

While we do not have exact totals yet and the skin sales take a few weeks to come in but we guestimate $150,000 in total, going to World Central Kitchen.

We're very proud of everyone involved and thank you to those that helped out in any ways to make this event possible!

COMMUNITY UPDATE 248

TWITCH DROPS



Charitable Rust is in just a few days!



November 19th-21st


There will be 48 hours of exclusive drops on the Rustafied channel along with all of the creator/special guest channels participating in the event.

November 19th-26th


The generic drops can be obtained from any channel streaming Rust that has drops enabled. These drops go for the entire week!



Don't forget to get your accounts synced at https://twitch.facepunch.com/ to ensure you can claim your drops!

We will have an array of Charity skins on the item store for sale as well, starting Thursday the 17th. These will be account-bound (cannot trade or sell them) as the proceeds from them go to World Central Kitchen.


RUST'S BIRTHDAY



Rust is going to be celebrating our 9th Birthday on December 11th, 2022!



There will be an active server event enabled for the day. You spawn with cake and party hats. Many loot boxes around the map will have balloons on them. Just a little slice of fun in your day of death and destruction :)

Special thanks to our community for your continued support and helping us make it this far!


LIFE SIZE STORAGE BOX



Our friend over at Real&Game built us a life-size storage box!



He's made an assortment of other Rust items be sure to check out his other videos!


CRUST?



Memeio been living up to his name this month.

I present to you: cRust

  • He made it in 7 days ..allegedly
  • It's better than Rust ..allegedly
  • 1 person at PAX enjoyed it ..allegedly
  • Absolutely no copyright infringements ..maybe




WHENS CAPYBARAS??


CREATOR SPOTLIGHT



This month we have your resident building inspector, Dust!

"Yo! My name's Dust, I'm a Rust YouTuber with a focus on base build videos, but also high quality cinematics and full length gameplay movies! My friend convinced me to download Rust in 2018 and I’ve barely seen a blade of grass since. What really hooked me was watching awesome content by Evil Wurst, Blooprint, Tesla, Frost, aloneintokyo and a ton of other insanely talented creators.

I started YouTube pretty recently and things quickly took off. Even though I started as a build channel, there’s been a ton of demand for more movies so I’m working on putting out more action packed wipe content! Stay tuned!

On a real note, my favorite part about this whole journey has been the friendships that I’ve made along the way. Rust is a super unique game where you’ll end up spending hundreds or thousands of hours with people, so you’ll tend to build some really strong and genuine friendships. The creator community in Rust is also super collaborative and filled with some awesome people."




He's gotten pretty good with those cinematics!


PAX COSPLAY



Camomo sent us in some awesome cosplay pics from PAX AUS last month!

Think one of these guys was in Memeio's cRust video :)




There are professional versions too!




JINGLE JAM 2022



Just a heads up for all you Rust Roleplay enjoyers out there! Yogscast JingleJam Charity event is set for December 10th, 2022.



Keep an eye on their socials for news and more details.


SHOW ME THE STUFF!



If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

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 potential candidates, the Prototype 17 was selected. This new weapon has a magazine capacity of 18 and fires in deadly 3 round bursts with the single pull of the trigger.



In addition, it features tritium sights for rapid target acquisition and engagement under low light conditions. It has been noted that some survivors have scavenged and reverse engineered the weapon, extracting some of its components and allowing them to augment their own weapons with the 3 round burst ability.





CABOOSE



We've added a new train carriage that you might find on sidings.



Inside you'll find a poker table with four seats, two slot machines, and a brand new blackjack computer that can handle 1-3 players.



All the features of blackjack are here, and blackjack pays out 3:2. The computer hates to lose, but he plays fair. You can make an initial bet of between 5 and 500 scrap. Just keep an ear out for what's going on nearby - this isn't a safe zone!




QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES



Swap Attachments


Swap Attachments more easily by right clicking or click and dragging to attachment slots

Get new bags while dead


Death screen will now update if you are assigned a new bag while already dead

Cap Menu FPS to 60


New setting in Options menu, prevents high framerates


HLOD



For the past few months I've been working on a new system to improve how we render monuments at a distance while maintaining or improving the current performance. It uses a technique called HLOD (Hierarchical Level of Detail) and involves baking the monument as it should be seen at a distance down into a single mesh. A key requirement was to make sure this didn't add any extra work for our environment artists, this process is almost entirely automated.





The final performance improvements were minimal, but the increased visual fidelity at a distance still seemed worthwhile to ship. You should notice more geometry and detail, as well as entire monuments that will now be visible when they weren't before.


ANNOUNCEMENT: STEAM NETWORKING / QUERY PORT



We have plans in place to switch the default networking layer of Rust servers from RakNet to Steam Networking in late November or early December, further communication will follow.

This change requires servers to have a separate Steam query port set via the -queryport server startup parameter. When no query port is set, the server will default to either game port + 1 or rcon port + 1, depending on which number is larger.

Hosts of shared servers will need to ensure the query port is forwarded correctly, which is why we are making this announcement ahead of time. Servers can be switched over to Steam Networking for testing via the -swnet startup parameter, which we recommend doing ahead of time in order to ensure a smooth transition.


HALLOWEEN



Halloween events have come to an end, good job survivors at closing all of Cobalt's project R.U.I.N portals! Hopefully, that's the last of them we see...


TWITCH DROPS - CHARITABLE RUST 2022



Every year Rustafied hosts a giant charity event. They have servers dedicated to mini games, live streams, Twitch drops, giveaways, and more!

We will also be listing some exclusive skins on the Rust Item Store where the proceeds of these items will go to World Central Kitchen.



There will be some exclusive Twitch drops for 2 days starting November 19th and some generic drops for the whole week.

Make sure you get synced up at twitch.facepunch.com to get and claim your drops when the event starts!

COMMUNITY UPDATE 247

RUST IS ON SALE!



Now through November 2nd Rust is on sale at 33% off across the board!



This includes all the DLC's and the Soundtrack!


CHARITABLE RUST EVENT



Just dropping in another reminder that Charitable Rust is next month!

Every year Rustafied hosts a giant charity event. They have servers dedicated to mini games, live streams, Twitch drops, giveaways, and more!

We will also be listing some exclusive skins on the Rust Item Store where the proceeds of these items will go to World Central Kitchen.



There will be some exclusive drops for 2 days and some generic drops for the whole week.

Make sure you get synced up at twitch.facepunch.com to get and claim your drops when the event starts!

If you are a content creator/live streamer and you want to participate in the event you can sign up here.

Full details to follow when we get closer to the event!


THE GREAT RUST RIVALS WAR



Last month we had an epic Twitch Rivals event and Frost has a great high octane and emotional recap of all of it.

Settle in and grab some popcorn.



That end though...


LOW POLY RUST



Project Nova is breaking the mold again bringing you a unique low poly Rust!



They have a couple different servers to try out on both sides of the globe.

You can join their discord for more information or check out their website!


HOW TO FIND NORTH



This is one for you illuminati tin foil hatters. Raynbirds takes a deep dive into what it means when a gun flops down on the ground in a certain direction.

Seems possibly useful on Hardcore servers that don't have maps if you feel like chucking guns on the ground!



Half life 3 confirmed?


LIFE SIZE WORKBENCH



Panpots, in collaboration with MilesdetusFiguras3D, has made an amazing life size T3 Workbench!

This has been a bit of a work in progress and we're amazed at the results. So much talent out there!






BREAKING BASES



Listen, there's a few Breaking Bad Rust memes out there but this one has to take the cake.

Jonkari P plz make more




CUT-THROAT CANDYMAN



I'm just going to leave this here.




SHOW ME THE STUFF!



If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

Covert art by llennoco22.

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 loot bags as a reward. These candies and loot bags can be opened for various types of loot ranging from scrap all the way up to an M249!

If you don't make the podium, that's okay. The candies you collect can be upgraded for better loot.



There are various items available to help you during your hunt. The Pumpkin Bucket will allow instant pickup of candies and the Scarecrow Wrap and Ghost Costume will provide you with an advantage via Candy Vision.



The Halloween event will run until November 3rd.

Have fun!


PORTALS



Cultists are said to have been opening portals throughout the world, others believe it's a Cobalt experiment code-named R.U.I.N gone horribly wrong. Not much is known about these portals or what they do, only a few chads have entered and made it back alive.

Do you dare to enter?



Server owners can adjust the portal count using the halloweendungeon.population convar.


NEW HALLOWEEN ITEMS



This year we've added three new Halloween themed items to the Rust store.


Hockey Facemask


Hide your facial deformities with this creepy hockey mask.



The Hockey Facemask skin is a reskin of the Metal Facemask.


Cultist Deer Torch


The Cultists must have dropped this while opening the portals throughout the world.



The Cultist Deer Torch is a reskin of the starter torch. Once the torch skin is selected or crafted, you'll respawn with this skin.


Baseball Bat


It wouldn't be a zombie apocalypse without hitting zombies in the head with a baseball bat!



The Baseball bat is a reskin of the mace melee weapon.

Now purchasable at the Rust item store.


FRANK IS BACK! GRHRRR..





To start building your own monster, first, you must slay scarecrows and mummies that roam the lands. Once you've collected a head, torso and legs, craft yourself a Frankenstein's table and place the body parts within the table. Awaken your new pet monster and control it by pressing "P".



The monster will follow your orders without question. It'll follow you around the map, defend you if attacked and help slay foes you wish to attack.



If you're having trouble accessing the pet menu or already have a key bound to "P" then use the following console command: bind X +pets or open the in-game controls menu.


HALLOWEEN ITEMS



Last years Halloween items have been raised from the dead, head over to the Rust item store.



Additionally, we've resurrected the following items:



There is also a bunch of Halloween themed skins on the Rust Item Store!


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 is a hazmat replacement skin that can be applied while crafting the hazmat or skinned using the repair table. The Lumberjack suit offers no in-game bonuses.




Tools



The Lumberjack additionally comes with four craftable tools. The concrete tools are reskinned versions of the stone tools, and the prototype tools share the same stats as the metal tools.





The Lumberjack pack is available now from the Steam store and in-game store.


FURNACE UI IMPROVEMENTS



Following feedback from last month's Furnace UI revamp, I made the following changes:

  • All slots now cook at the same time.
  • Added progress bar when smelting items
  • New burning icon for items




I also fixed a number of issues relating to ores dropping out of furnaces when overfilling.

Splitting ores stacks between input slots will still not increase production rates.


SERVER LISTING UI UPDATE



As a part of a large long term menu UI revamp I have made several improvements to the server listing UI this month. Here are the most note worthy changes:

  • Added regions server tags.
  • Update tag search behavior to find servers with all of the selected tags instead of any of them.
  • Add a button to clear filters to the server browser.




Additionally, I reimplemented dropdown menus in the options menu. This should make life easier than clicking endlessly to find certain options such as screen resolution.





CAMPFIRE AND EFFECTS



The campfire is one of Rust's oldest models, dating back to pre-2015. It was time for an update to reflect Rust 2022. Issac has worked his magic and updated the model which can be seen below.



Along with the new model comes new visual effects courtesy of Petur.



Petur has updated the effects on the campfire, large furnace, furnace and cauldron. These updated effects not only look better but also offer better performance.


QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES



Train Offloading LGF


Train fuel wagons now contain more low grade fuel

Debris Building Blocker


Debris building blocker now immune to explosive damage

Not focused FPS Limit


Added an option to cap framerate to 15FPS when not focused

Radio Ga Ga


Radio stations can now be updated without releasing client/server updates

Train Bell


Hitting the bell on the train now goes "ding ding"


HARDCORE TECHTREE TAX



We received a lot of feedback surrounding the Workbench Techtree on hardcore since its launch last month, many wanting it removed completely from this game mode. While weighing options we've decided to explore a tech tree tax. Unlocking items directly from the Workbench Techtree will now cost additional scrap,

  • Tier 1 - 20%
  • Tier 2 - 40%
  • Tier 3 - 60%

The research cost from using the research bench remains unchanged.




CONTAINER SIZE IMPROVEMENTS



Following last months storage changes we have now increased car storage module size from 18 to 48. Camper storage 12 to 18 and Saddle bags 6 to 12.


EAC AND PROTON



We're aware the server performance has degraded since the release of EAC EOS update on September 30th, we're actively working with EAC to remedy these issues. Server owners can expect hotfixes over the coming days and weeks.

Proton Support



You know, we switched to EAC's new platform with the intention of providing support for the Steam Deck, and so far we haven't done that. So when is it coming?

Well, short answer is we don't know. We don't know if it is. When we discontinued linux support in 2019, one of the core reasons was how the cheating community was exploiting the Linux platform. That's not to say that cheating was super widespread on Linux, but it was safer for cheat developers. And that's not good in a game like Rust where a cheater can ruin weeks of hard work.

Enabling proton support would mean we're asking the EAC team to provide support for a whole other platform, which we fear would reduce their ability to support Windows - our main platform. We don't know whether we should enable one platform at the disadvantage of another.

The one thing we don't want to do is to enable Proton support to only discontinue it six months later. We don't want to encourage players to spend their money on a Deck to play Rust and then be in a position where we want to take that ability away.

For now, we're still weighing up the risks and will continue to explore options with EAC. Don't expect to see Proton support in the near future, but we hope to have it enabled someday.


TWITCH DROPS - STREAMERLAND



Starting from today till Oct 12th 23:59UTC Agustabell and several of the biggest names in the Spanish streamer community will be participating in a 7-day event! Twitch drops are enabled for selected Spanish Twitch streamers. You can earn special and unique skins simply by watching your favourite Spanish Rust Twitch streamers.



Learn more at twitch.facepunch.com.


SPOOKY UPDATE



On October 20th at 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST we'll be releasing a mandatory server and client update to enable some new spooky features!













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 the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises all over the globe.



To kick things off we're starting with the skin contest. These very limited skins will be part of the Twitch drops & Item store purchases surrounding the event.

If you are a skin creator and want to have a shot at getting your work into the game, this contest is for you! All proceeds go towards charity!

Contest Rules




  • Use #CR2022 as official contest tag in workshop.
  • No re-uploading old or previously submitted skins.
  • Do not steal or use any copyrighted or otherwise trademarked content.
  • Must be 100% original work (can work with others if all are listed on workshop page).
  • Must follow all basic workshop submission rules and standards.
  • If using the World Central Kitchen logo, it cannot be used on any weapon skins. Only the Charitable Rust logo may be used on weapon skins.
  • Submissions must be high quality and Hi-Res, normals properly done/baked.
  • Cannot contain offensive or sexual content.
  • Don’t forget upload limit for the amount of skins you may submit.
  • Skins must be submitted by midnight(23:59) PST September 30, 2022.


Please see full details here on how to enter and what to expect!

If you're a content creator/streamer and want to participate check out their info on how to sign up!

We'll post more info about the event as we get closer.



Hemp Base Empire



@matt.zan in TikTok does a little bit of movie magic to show us his hemp empire little 2x2 with an extension on the back.

Original vid:



Outside reveal:





Creator Spotlight



This month we have a lil penguin you might know as BlizzardID!

"I got into Rust after watching a Frankieonpc video in 2013, back when the game was still on browser. At the time, I was playing a lot of the Arma2 DayZ mods so figured it was right up my alley. I played it on and off but wasn't properly hooked until early 2016. I had just dropped out of University and finally had the right amount of time to enjoy the game.

What's always made me fall back in love with this abusive relationship of a game, is the thrill of having all of your hours of effort taken away, but on the flip side being able to do it to others too. It makes everything feel so much more exhilarating and gives fights a lot more meaning than in any other game I've ever played.

After watching some Trausi and Bchillz I decided to post some of my clips and videos on Youtube, which did pretty well for that time. Sadly I was also an anxious mess having my motivation fade in and out. Youtube's income was basically a coinflip and I wanted a bit more stability. That's when I decided to take a break from things for the next 3 years and got a degree.

In that time is when I would really come to enjoy streaming, mainly due to the back and forth jokes you can get from chat. I'm happy that my caveman ass got to meet so many people through this weird game of hitting rocks with rocks."






Big Brain



It's it every day your base build restrictions line up with a doorcamper in your airlock, but when they do... Kira seized the opportunity.





Reddit Bits



User _Dareon_ asked his noob friend to start a compound and, well..



flyingovermyhead likes to torture his victims



Some days are good and some days are bad. Sorry Cameron0f



Rabb8 has an idea that should be protected at all costs! Turrets, cages, windows, spotlights.





Just going to leave this here..



hJune said he would cancel me if I put this in the blog but I don't negotiate with terrorists.



If you're wondering how hJune & CoconutB got to this point they ghosted a big group on hardcore.



I was lucky enough to watch this stream in real time and I have to say it was one of the more entertaining ones!

Also, while we're here...





Streamerland Event



Coming soon!

October 6th-12th, 2022



Agustabell and some of the biggest names in the Spanish streamer community will be participating in a 7 day event!

450 players, slow progression unlocks, and all out raids on the last day!



With this comes Twitch drops! Be sure to get your accounts synced so you're ready to claim. Watch our socials for more info!


Show me the stuff!



If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

Covert art by Blakrown.

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 the standard Vanilla comforts we've added throughout the years and gives a more ruthless, hardcore experience, so we've done just that.

Introducing Hardcore mode - a new game mode in Rust aimed towards veteran players, gone are the comforts such as safezones, team system and maps but don't worry, the vast majority of our servers will still be regular vanilla Rust.



During this first pass, you will find the following changes on Hardcore servers:

Added:

  • Local chat (100m range)
  • Limit of 5 sleeping bags & beds
  • In-game changelog (top left of inventory)


Removed:

  • Contact system
  • Compass
  • Crawling when wounded
  • Global chat
  • Rust+
  • Team system
  • Map
  • MLRS
  • Safe zones


Changed:

  • Blueprints wipe monthly

We believe this is a good starting place for a less forgiving game mode of Rust and we will continue to iterate and improve on it moving forward. If you're a server owner and wish to enable hardcore use the following var in your server startup config "-gamemode hardcore"

10 new official servers will be launching today with this new game mode.


New Furnace UI



Furnaces & cooking interfaces were cumbersome and not intuitive for newer players to use, requiring precise splitting of stacks to smelt efficiently, online calculators and guides to manage efficiently. We disliked this and felt we could do better, so we revamped the UI and some functionality.

They smelt and cook at the same speed & capacity (or better!) as before while being quick and easy to use.



With this update, you'll no longer be able to store non cooking/smelting-related items inside your cooking deployables (furnace/campfire), to address this see storage buff below.


Storage Buff



Over the past couple of years, we've quadrupled the number of in-game items and switched over to the component system, all of which require large amounts of additional storage. Now with the cooking and smelting UI revamp and removing the ability to store items within these deployables (campfire, furance etc) it was overdue we took a look at storage.

Today we've increased the small wooden storage capacity to 18 from 12 and the large wooden box to 48 from 30.



In the future expect to see new types of storage solutions.


Coaling Tower V2



I made some simple improvements to the coaling tower that aired in our last update inside the Trainyard monument.



These changes include a new way to access the tower from the top where the suspended bridge is located. This will make retreat from the building easier when the area is contested.




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 concurrent viewers
  • 7,500,319 chat messages sent
  • 20,062,838 total hours watched
  • 50,950,310 total views
  • 2,499,030 clip views
  • 19,037 Unique broadcasters


Item Skin Drops

  • Drops earned: 2,997,340
  • Drops claimed: 2,428,533


This is only our second event and we feel it was much better than the first. With time we'll perfect it and turn it into one of the best events on Twitch!

Full list of player awards, stats, and top 5 Twitch clips can be found here.



Raid Cam



Been a while since we've seen a raid cam! Ser Winter brought us a massive one from one of the Reddit servers. Let him know if you want to see more!




Creator Spotlight



This month we have Albin! Somehow he got the most kills AND the most deaths in the recent Rival's event. This guy seeks out danger.

"In 2016 (I was 15 at the time), I was playing too much CSGO and was starting getting to get bored of it. Was really good timing that my friends could show me Rust as a another first person shooter game.

Fell in love with the game in my first few hours of playing and been playing ever since.

What I love about this game is that you can do sooooo many different things. Everyday is different! Of course, just the pure chaos that can occur. Its not like CSGO when you load in to a match on same map everyday. The people I was watching the most was hJune, Frost, Ramsey. But hJune was the one I watch the most I was like 'how is this guy so hecking good at this game?'. Made me wanna get as good as him."




Pretty great Twitch clip of him being a maniac.



Printed Codelock



Reddit user u/TarikMcqueen 3D printed and painted a real-world code lock.




They want to refine it a bit more and possibly share some with the community!

More details here.



Speed Painting



I'm always in awe at the crazy amount of talented players we have in Rust. The things they can do with in game signs warms my heart. Even the meme ones!

Here's Chigidapo with "This is fine"




Reddit Bits



There's only one way to raid a submarine.

Taking his new gig a little too serously.



Show me the stuff!



If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

Cover art by YaX!