Rust News

Every Rust player has been permanently assigned a skin and hair colour. Including pube colour

In an update earlier this month, Facepunch made it so every Rust player would have a race and face permanently assigned to them. The new look is locked to your Steam ID. That means that every character you create will share exactly the same randomised look.

Facepunch founder Garry Newman said it's "just like in real life, you are who you are - you can't change your skin colour or your face."

The change has angered some Rust players who want the freedom to change how they look in game. Not everyone, though. One player couldn't be happier with his blue pubes.

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Elevator Update

This Update brings an elevator for easy travel between floors of your base, A real life Rust chair that gives you an exclusive in game chair too, The Spacesuit skin for the Hazmat outfit, changes to roads and added trails as well as the usual balancing and optimisations.

More detailed info can be found in the blog post

New deployable Elevator
Added Steam Networking (requires server to be launched with -swnet and -queryport)
Added server demo recording
Added desire trails to small monuments
Added additional side road connections to monuments (larger overall road network)
Fixed recycling stacks yield fewer resources than individuals
Fixed cargo ship lights not turning off during the day
Fixed invisible barrier across airfield rear door
Fixed glitchy interior door at airfield
Fixed not being able to place water items (boogie boards, tubes) after the servers water level was changed
Fixed search text appearing on crafting UI incorrectly
Fixed barrel gibs appearing in the wrong colour
Fixed not being able to download some textures from the Workshop Submission UI
Fixed vehicle parenting exploit
Fixed projectile velocity change exploit
Fixed projectile penetration exploit
Fixed several RPC exploits and DOS attack vectors
Fixed roof conditional model flyhack false positive
Fixed spawning on beach too close to fishing village
Fixed fishing villages sometimes spawning on islands
Fixed that the first monument that was placed (usually a harbor) would nearly never be connected to the road network
Fixed ORSwitch sparks
Fixed Sphere/Dome monument barrel spawners inside each other
Fixed allowing deployment through reinforced glass window
Fixed placing furnace on construction when placed at max-height
Fixed green card respawn at swamp_c
Fixed inside terrain antihack false positives at the water treatment plant (instant death spots)
Fixed unable to plant next to sapling or higher stage berry bush in a planter
Fixed engine stats not appearing when inspecting an engine on a car
Fixed some inconsistency shooting through glass (one way)
Fixed Autoturret targeting shotgun trap
Fixed windmill not rotating to the wind direction
Fixed Unable to break down multiple Steam items in inventory
Fixed the point of interest and death map markers using the center of the image as the origin, should have been bottom center
Fixed being unable to power storage monitors directly from batteries
Fixed minicopter being able to penetrate windows
Player collider now resizes correctly versus projectiles like rockets when the player is crouched or lying down (wounded, sleeping)
No longer showing "1ft" on wire or hose items, since they're unlimited
Boats now decay at an increased rate when in deep water
Kayaks will now be slightly slower when when two players are paddling (still faster than just one paddler)
Disabled mip maps on terrain splat maps so they look less awful in the distance and on low graphics qualities
Disabled mip maps on terrain normal map to preserve terrain detail in the distance
Power lines can end at ring road (massively speeds up power line layout generation on large maps)
Allow 1 out of the 4 corners of a monument to slightly reach into a neighboring tier when finding spawn locations for them
Berry Bushes can now be cloned at earlier growth stages
Reduced building block around swamp_c
Reduced range of bandit sentry turret (Fishing Villages)
Reactive target now requires a hammer to pickup
Tweaked Powerplant radiation volumes, no longer result in high levels of radiation moving around the sides
Updated some old and incorrect/out dated item descriptions
Reduced chance of finding T1 car parts at road and water junkpiles
Moved garage door lock position higher
Push Button now sends a small burst of electricity when pushed even with no input
Refreshed player map color scheme
Update scope overlays to scale the color with the time of day (so no more bright scope at night)
Added server.censorplayerlist (default false) to streamer mode the player list returned by A2S_PLAYER server queries (will not apply to already connected players so set it at startup)
Added world.rendermap to render a high res PNG of the map
Updated tea icons
Healing Tea - Advanced and Pure versions now provide a small amount of instant health, As well as greater healing over time
Wood Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
Scrap Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
Max Health Tea - Duration increased to 20mins.
NPC vendors now refill their stock slowly instead of having an infinite amount always available
Improved picking up deployables by holding E with a hammer equipped

Rust gets an Elevator update and reworked map tomorrow

Rust, Facepunch Studios' multiplayer survival fest, gets a bit of a lift this week, with the arrival of its Elevator update. The update adds the deployable feature as an option for your player bases, as well as a rework for the survival game's map, and a bunch of other goodies, too.

The Rust Elevator update's eponymous new addition lets players travel easily between their base's different floors and levels, Facepunch announces in a press release, and it sounds easy enough to implement, too. All you have to do is plonk one on your settlement's ground floor, then stack multiple others on top of it to create a working elevator system. The release only mentions "additional floors", so it's not clear just how far you can go with this - but, hey, the sky's the limit, right?

Once you've powered your elevator, you can move it one floor up or down at a time using the controller's respective buttons, or send it straight to the top or bottom of its shaft. You can also add power inputs to your various floors which you can use to call the elevator directly to them. Neat. Just make sure you don't hang around underneath the elevators when they're moving. Ouch.

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Merchandise News

The winners of the Merchandise contest are announced and the store is officially OPEN!

Up until the 1st October there is a 20% discount across the Rust store by using the code RUST20 at the checkout.

Click the link to visit the Store!

Rust is getting a space suit and an in-game gaming chair from Secretlab

Rust's staging branch has seen some curious new items appear over the past week. There's a full space suit costume you can wear, and for maximum comfort, what looks like an officially-branded gaming chair from Secretlab.

Rust YouTuber ShadowFrax has a helpful rundown of all the latest topline changes that have appeared on the staging branch, which is where Rust tests out upcoming patches. It's a reasonably certain indication of what will be showing up in the main game branch in the next patch, so all Rust players can probably expect to see these in October's update.

First, the space suit. Like everything in Rust, it's a bit on the shabby side, but it works exactly like a standard hazmat suit - mainly because it is a standard hazmat suit. The astronaut appearance is a skin, and the design looks to be based on American space suits of the 1960s Apollo program. Admins and owners can try it on by using the command 'give spacesuit', which is nice and straightforward.

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