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12:00am EST - Another week in Rust development as we reach the halfway point for the month. Forward progress on blackjack, other improvements, and a bunch of hidden commits.

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

Blackjack

More progress this week on the newest card game to enter Rust. Blackjack, which will be available on the Caboose train wagon, is a new card betting game for 1 or more people. No visuals yet on this or the Caboose in which it’ll exist as both projects are on the aux2 branch which is currently unavailable to players. We’ll keep you posted as more comes to light. 

Item move fixes

Adding to the various storage buffs of late, the team is making a couple small quality of life improvements when it comes to moving items in certain instances. Specifically, right clicking items into horse storage has been fixed. Also, they’ve made moving items onto multiple incomplete stacks behave more consistent. 

VFX improvements

Some miscellaneous visual effect improvements are in the works. When it comes to flames, it seems as though some higher quality effects will be in play in the near future. Also, they added a second small, elevated, unshadowed light to soften the campfire close proximity lighting.

Other stuff

• A slew of hidden commits this week

• Some fixes for hurt triggers for trains

• Fixes for flickering visuals on locomotives

• Fixed loot wagons spawning with no gravel and being generally broken

• Fixed modular vehicle storage being locked while the vehicle is in corpse state

• Fixed several spawn populations theoretically being allowed to spawn on rail

• Turned off Debris vs. Vehicle Detailed layer collisions. Unfortunately this means items will fall through vehicles again, but will let cars drive through bushes, hemp etc again as well

• Fixed Coconut_underwear item description spelling mistake from "form" to "from", fixed Chocolate item description, icon, shortname from "chocholate" to "chocolate" 🐎

• Fixed two of the water treatment plant cylinders making the environment super dark when standing inside them