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

12:00am EST - With the update and forced wipe just one week away, we’re seeing new building skins and more hitting the staging branch!

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

Adobe building skin on staging

The ‘building_skins_3’ branch has been merged into the regular staging branch, and with it, we’re getting our first peeks at the new Adobe building skin. At the moment you can enable building skins with your hammer then upgrade to Adobe (which is in place of the stone upgrade option).

Based on commits, it does appear some more building skins are on the way including brick, stone blocks, and tribalist variant. At the moment, it seems these skins will simply replace the existing default skin options and will hold the same values as their original counterparts (not confirmed).

Word on the street is it’ll all be part of a new DLC coming soon. As it stands, nothing is confirmed. We’ll keep you posted as more comes to light.

Edit: Confirmed, this Adobe building skin will be a DLC going live with the update and forced wipe on May 4th.

More Nuclear Missile Silo work

We’re seeing more work on the newest upcoming monument, the Nuclear Missile Silo. Over on Aux2, there’s been a number of tweaks including adding rads, opening up the buildings above ground a bit, modifying the exit puzzle, tweaking lights, and more.

An interesting thing to note: the new sub branch called ‘big bang’. This, combined with a couple teasers posted on Twitter, makes it seem like this monument will be more than just a place to grab loot and shoot NPC’s. Will it be somehow part of a server-wiping event? Not clear, but it sure looks that way. All this work has been merged into the ‘save237’ branch so there’s a chance we’ll see this monument in the May update.

Edit: The Nuclear Missile Silo has been merged with normal staging which indicates a high chance it’ll go live with the May update.

Edit 2: There’s a new wiki page for ‘server wipe timer’ for server owners related to the new Nuclear Missile Silo monument. I’d say this confirms this monument will feature a server wiping event which will be controlled by the server owner.

More ammo world models

Work on some new ammo world models is underway. Soon, instead of that ole’ burlap sack dropping when you toss ammo on the ground, you’ll see actual ammo boxes.

Twitch drops scheduled for May

The Facepunch Twitch page has been updated and the next round of Twitch drops has been scheduled for May 16-20th, which will be the next Twitch Rivals event. Make sure your accounts are all linked!

Edit: There are some new nametag items on staging which could be for this Rivals event.

Other stuff

• Rust+ cameras can’t see players and names from such a great range now

• Fixes for missing team leader map markers on death

• Add 'server_allow_steam_nicknames' replicated convar to allow modded servers to disable steam nicknames

• Looks like a new recycler animation might be on the way

• Initial add of a makeshift standing weapon rack (still on a separate branch)

• First pass on showing a list of current map markers on the left of the map screen

• Work on AI blinding via flashbangs

• Some loot tweaks to power line towers