1:45pm EST - The update is live and devblog is out! Game on!

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

12:00am EST - It’s the first Thursday of December so that means it’s time for a Rust update!

The update and forced wipe is expected at normal time, 2pm EST (7pm GMT). Our update stream goes live at 1pm EST. Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the day. Before we get into it…

Charitable Rust 2024 Final Results

Charitable Rust celebrated its 10th year by raising an impressive $265,112.53 for Direct Relief! A big shout-out to everyone involved—from those who donated through Tiltify, purchased skins, to those who helped spread the word. And of course, a special thanks to Facepunch, whose support was crucial in reaching such a significant total. Great job, everyone!

Quality Of Life

This update introduces a range of miscellaneous quality of life improvements to enhance player experience in Rust. Here is a summary of some of the key changes we’re seeing go live with this update today:

16x Variable Zoom
3 zoom levels (4/8/16) added to the 16x scope

High External Upgrading
You can now upgrade Wooden High Walls & Gates to Stone with a hammer. And crafting shifts: High external walls now craft 3 at once. Stone high external walls now requires 1 sheet metal per craft. Stone high external gate requires 1 sheet metal, reduced gear count to 3. Reduced crafting cost to 4000 from 4500 wood/stone to make inventory management easier.

Workcart Storage
They’ve added 18 slot storage box to workcarts.

Underwater Visibility
The visibility underwater has been increased.

Oxygen Tracking
Increased the depth required to be considered underwater for oxygen tracking purposes by 10%.

Junkpile Respawn
Allow junkpiles to despawn if any loot is taken from them / any barrels are destroyed instead of requiring everything to be looted before it can despawn

Junkyard Heli’s
Can now pick up minicopter, scrap transport helicopter and attack helicopter with the magnet crane in junkyard as long as they are turned off.

Rad Pill Buff
Rad pills have been buffed (less water consumption, decreases more radiation)

Storage Passthrough
Added passthrough output to the storage monitor 'Power Out' now sends 1 power instead of passthrough - 1

Electrical Rotation
Ability to rotate many electrical items while placing

Fully Charged
Added a "Fully Charged" output slot to all batteries

Bigger Fridges
Fridge inventory slots increased from 30 to 48

Legacy Shelter
You can now place a second legacy shelter and the first one will be automatically destroyed. It now also takes 1.5 seconds to place

Dropbox Input
Increase dropbox from 1 input slot -> 4 input slots

Homing Rocket Loot
Added homing rockets to high end ordinance and rocket ammo collection - APC, Attack helicopter

Larger Propane Stacks
Propane stack size updated from 5 to 20

Node sparkle changes
Sparkle wont show on nodes till first hit where it’ll register the sparkle hit and subsequent reward resulting in a slight buff to ore collecting

Car Radios

Car radios have been introduced in Rust as a new feature! These are tier 1 items and take only 15 seconds and 120 metal frags to craft. Working like the boombox, you can simply deploy it onto the dashboard of your chosen vehicle, adding some tunes to your travels around the island. Note: it only works when the car is on and can only be crafted if you have the Voice Props DLC.

Rust Turns 11

Rust is celebrating its 11th birthday this month! The team at Facepunch has been hard at work for over a decade, constantly developing and improving the game. To mark this special occasion, there's word of an 11th birthday cake appearing in-game sometime this month. Keep an eye out for more details on this festive addition!

Other Stuff

Landmines now have a 15% chance to explode on being disarmed (as was always intended)
More improvements and fixes to wolf AI
Fixes to reloads for rocket launchers
Some fixes to painting / art
Fix to some textures on the hammer
Fixes to wire slacking functionality
Only show warnings if in peacekeeper mode, powered, and player is not authorized
Improvements to RCON security (logging and banning for failed login attempts)
Fix teleport2marker & teleport2grid moving you inside rocks / bases instead of to the top of them