1:00pm EST - Our update preview stream is live! twitch.tv/rustafied

12:00am EST - With one week before the February monthly update, the team at Facepunch is trucking along on functionality and finishing touches.

Our update preview stream goes live at 1pm EST. Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the week.

Summary video

Here is our weekly development summary video from TGG.

Mandatory update on Friday

In celebration of Lunar New Year, the team at Facepunch has released an update featuring 2 new Lunar New Year items.

Sky lantern

Plain, Red, Purple, Orange, Green

10 Cloth
5 LGF

Tiger mask

Same stats of a wolf headdress

10 Cloth
1 Wolf skull

Arctic Hazmat

A new variant of the Hazmat suit will enter Rust with the update next week. Here are some details on the new Arctic Hazmat suit:

• It will be available for purchase on the permanent item store

• It has better protection against cold (12% instead of 8%)

Arctic bases

These new monuments up north now have:

• Some loot has been added (green military crates, wooden crates, ammo crates, components crates)

• Scientists now have an arctic skin

• A recycler has been added

• Initial work on a puzzle for snowmobile spawning (a blue keycard to access a garage)

Other development news

Spray can
Free spray and decals have been disabled for the time being, this can is just for reskinning now.

Server browser filter
Initial work started on allowing players to filter servers based on their tags.