Lots of discussion surrounding the updated Rust player model.
Your model is updated, what your player looks like on Staging now will likely change for release in June.
On the roadmap, we do have player customization scheduled to be released Q4 2026, allowing you to change your appearance.
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Halloween patch will need to be pushed to Monday, 28th October at 19:00 GMT / 15:00 EST.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
We're currently investigating a pesky directional sound bug at the moment. The team is working on it!
If you have any clips that involve sound everywhere all at once please post them and let us know what "speaker config" setting you have in your audio menu.
Thanks!
Some broader Rust updates below, but firstly, there is lots of awesome stuff coming up in the next Rust update! The team is working incredibly hard, monthly patch cycles are challenging.
This month:
- Cargoship Event rework
- Harbor Monument updates
- More challenging Lunch site APC
- More ways to counter oilrig
- Electricity reworks
- First tool Cupboard skin
- Minigun
- Attack helicopter AI tweaks
- Boatload of QOL, fixes and performance changes
We're slowly chipping away at the goals we set out in the New Year update. Addressing some key community complaints takes time to enact.
Over the past 18 months, the Rust development team has nearly doubled in size, and the QA and Support teams have been doubled to tripled in size.
We're still hiring more developers: https://t.co/0tGsw6ABQw
A lot of work is being done behind the scenes on anticheat, over the past and coming months we've slowly been closing infomation leaks such as networking health, items, stashes, auth lists and more. We've fixed several long-standing cheat features.
Expanding the support team sizes has allowed us to get more staff support focusing on anticheat, which includes going in-game and dealing with and disrupting cheaters directly based on player reports. Some staff will soon be dedicated to anti-cheat measures full-time.
Lots more going on behind the scenes in all areas.
📣 Following yesterday's announcement of a mandatory server update, we have decided to delay it following issues found in internal testing.
We will now be releasing the update early next week - more news to follow in the coming days.
Thank you for your patience!
Rust's monthly map wipe & mandatory update will be released this Thursday at 19:00 BST / 14:00 ET
Update includes:
🌊New Water System
⛴️Tugboats
🤿Abyss Item Store DLC Pack
🧚♀️Ferry Terminal
⬛Shader Improvements
🛠️Various Fixes & More!
Rust's monthly map wipe & update will be released this Thursday at 19:00 GMT / 14:00 EST
Update includes:
Player Controlled Drones
RF Detonated C4
PTZ Security Cam
Industrial Improvements
Server Network Improvements
Other Various Fixes & More!