Rust News

The new Transport Helicopter arrives along with changes to auto turrets and various other fixes and optimizations

Unity 2019.2.0f1
Players are automatically authed to placed cupboards
Benchmark mode fixes
Added powerline wires to Monument Puzzles
Added an in-game Screen options menu for resolution, fullscreen and vsync settings
Client is now using IL2CPP instead of Mono
Server is available as IL2CPP version on the "release-il2cpp" branch
World generation is now server authoritative (faster load times, more robust)
Added doppler shift to some sounds
Added texture streaming
Added Transport Helicopter
Added Horse Leading
Added Fuel Generator
Fixed steam refresh overlay not closing after opening bag
Fixed possible exception when retrieving market prices
ServerInfo will retry multiple times if failed to get info
ServerInfo will fail gracefully if failed to get info after multiple attempts
Fixed titles getting cut off in pie menu
Fixed loading screen cancel button being 1 pixel smaller than the bar to its left
Fixed steam friend inconsistencies
Fixed unexpected palm trees behavior when helicopters would fly over
Player map position now updates correctly when injured
Fixed erratic map scrolling when using the left mouse button to drag
Hotspot visuals now get cleaned up correctly when ent-killing
Disabling the UI no longer allows you to see through smoke effects
Can no longer spam drink back to full health
Completing a tutorial achievement will no longer mark the whole tutorial as complete temporarily
Fixed item icon staying on screen if inventory is closed while dragging
Fixed High External Gates not playing SFX correctly
Fixed compound sometimes spawning underwater
Fixed exploit using water projectile penetration
Fixed snapback issues when dismounting while moving fast
Fixed swimming slightly under the waves not showing underwater properly
Fixed crashes on AMD Phenom
Fixed swamp fog too bright at night
Fixed lighting on some particles (e.g. helicopter damage smoke)
Fixed NRE on ent kill cargo ship
Game log is written to output_log.txt in the game install folder again
Fixed deflated HAB having inflated collision and wrecking minicopters
Fixed rendering TopBunnies UI element all the time
Optimized Notices UI layout
Neatened up Notices UI
Tweaked "new content" label on main menu
The map now re-focuses on the player's position when injured
The console input field now auto-focuses when opening or changing tabs.
Max value of gc.buffer is now 4096 instead of 2048
Log warning when doing emergency garbage collection
Enabled crunch texture compression on workshop skin bundles
Performance text no longer updates when nothing changed (avoids GC)
Performance text always prints GC counter for one second after GC runs
Simplified "perf" convar (1=FPS, 2=frame time, 3=memory, 4=ping, 5=everything)
Debug Camera: R resets the camera
Debug Camera: Q/E move the camera vertically
Debug Camera: Z/C and +/- control zoom
Debug Camera: Arrow keys control roll
Debug Camera: Disabled inventory and crafting menus when in debug camera
Debug Camera: Disabled vehicle controls when in debug camera
Debug Camera: Disabled noclip control when in debug camera
Debug Camera: Added debugcamera_save and debugcamera_load (multiple save names are supported)
Debug Camera: Added debugcamera_autosave and debugcamera_autoload
Debug Camera: Added camzoomlerp (likecamlerp but for zoom)
Small maps have large monuments again (excluding launch site and excavator)
Updated NPC helicopter sounds
Reduced texture memory footprint (by ~1 GB) via texture streaming
Reduced mesh memory footprint (by ~700 MB) via model optimizations
Improved TSSAA and motion blur quality on vegetation and cloth affected by wind
Optimized high-quality shadow mode = 2, now 25% faster
Added new very-high-quality shadow mode = 3
Pressure pads can now be hidden under rugs
Pressure pads generate a small amount of electricity when stepped on
Grenades have a more predictable landing position
F1 grenades have a fuse length of 3 instead of 3.5
Rocket Launcher need T2 WB( Instead of T3 )
HV Rockets need T2 WB( Instead of T3 )
Autoturrets never miss more than 3 shots in a row
Autoturrets now make use of the electricity system
Removed Vulkan graphics API
Removed Linux client

Excavator monument and more optimizations and fixes

Added Excavator Monument
Added force triggers (excavator belts)
Added terrain anti hack protection
Fixed binds not working with "cinematic_play" and "cinematic_stop"
Fixed "monuments" console command being abused to find caves
Fixed weapon reload issues at extremely low FPS
Fixed RF Broadcaster being placed through walls
Fixed being stuck when dismounting helicopter on top of Compound buildings
Fixed accidentally pressing "Create Team" while dropping items on low resolutions
Fixed text overflow on team dock when players have long names
Fixed team member map font being unreadable
Fixed large furnace placement under the terrain
Fixed scope overlay being extremely small on larger screen resolutions
Fixed misclicking accept would reject the team invite
Fixed hunters jacket skin being black
Fixed some volumetrics not disappearing during day time
Fixed broken train cart coal material on powerplant monument
Fixed some materials turning black on lowest shader levels in powerplant monument
Fixed duplicate networkable objects (e.g. doors) when playing demos
Fixed passengers being able to access minicopter fuel
Fixed horses eating too much food at hitching posts
Optimized some server side player packet verifications
Entity parenting triggers now support compound triggers and exclusion zones (excavator arm)
Removed large monuments and mountains on smaller maps (now limited to 3500 world size or larger)
Barren now has harbors, oil rigs and water wells
Barren prefab mountains no longer spawn in the desert
Allow deployables to be placed under Water barrel
Increased the cost of lowgrade at Compound
Increased server browser timeout limit to 90 seconds
Hapis Island fixes and tweaks
Optimized server-side water buoyancy
Optimized terrain shader

Horse breeds and hitching posts, client and server optimizations and more!

Added cinematic animations for video creation (see devblog)
Added player tick rate convars to the server (see devblog)
Added Streamer mode to options menu
Added new horse model and breeds
Added Hitch-Trough deployable
Added Minicopter fuel gauge
Added Minicopter pilot IK
Added 'hattip' gesture
Added a bunch of secret achievements
Fixed exploit to stack foundation steps
Fixed swamp fog too bright at night
Fixed water purifier disappearing after going out of network range
Fixed misclicking accept would reject the team invite
Fixed Rustige Egg not taking splash damage
Fixed being able to pick up sam site when it contained ammo
Optimized distant tree networking (client memory savings)
Optimized physics queries by removing collider batching entirely (previously disabled)
Optimized all entity queries
Optimized buoyancy physics transform sync
Optimized server player updates and transform sync
Optimized server packet handling
Optimized client inventory update
Optimized monument memory use
Optimized ocean wave foam rendering
Optimized gpu-side wave simulation for rendering
Optimized cpu-side wave simulation for buoyancy
Horses require far less food

Players of our game Chippy on Steam will get an exclusive Chippy Arcade machine to play with in game. Plus some optimisations and bug fixes for everyone.


Enabled skin unloading by default for everybody
Enabled the new multibox pruning broadphase algorithm for the physics system
Added 'gesture' console command
Fixed 'Ride Horse' being visible when someone is already on the horse
Improved network interpolation time offset calculation
Optimized the AI sensory system
Added skin memory usage to print_loaded_skins
Optimized the vending machine world UI (also affects the new Chippy arcade)

Horseback riding, Balance changes, a New UI and more!


Upgraded to Unity 2019.1.4f1
Enabled incremental GC and integrated it with the custom GC logic
Server Browser shows wipe times
Can order server list by wipe time
Added in game item store
Show when friends are on servers
Main menu has background videos
Sleeping bag list now scrolls
Players automatically climb over small steps
Added Horseback Riding 1.0
Fixed skin unloading texture and material corruption issues
Fixed light from the outside bleeding into building reflection probes at doorways
Fixed projectile LOS exploit that was abusing the player bounds forgiveness
Fixed server side player fall through floor exploit
Fixed IK on world space particle systems (flame thrower)
Fixed not all servers getting listed
Fixed crafting queue UI not getting reset after reconnect
Fixed renderinfo command
Fixed players parenting on the outside of Hot air balloon
Fixed players falling out of the falling out of Hot air balloon
Fixed a bunch of item typos
Fixed projectiles being rejected when shot through Oilrig stairs
Fixed players clipping through Oilrig dock
Fixed SetDestination errors
Fixed Launch site office building spawning too many barrels
Fixed Watchtowers being placed under the terrain
Fixed Rustige Egg base protection
Fixed Water Junkpiles despawning with players nearby
Fixed Muzzle flashes animating at low FPS in the distance
Fixed Scope jittering all over the place when on a vehicle or the cargo ship
Fixed viewmodels lagging behind when on a vehicle or the cargo ship
Fixed not being able to pick up Water Barrel
Fixed animals not playing dynamic footsteps based on their surface type
Optimized skin unloading
Enabled skin unloading on low end hardware by default again
UI loads faster
Fixed animations sometimes not being disabled
Optimized occlusion texture memory usage
Optimized input button updates
Optimized chat UI
Optimized physics timing values
Optimized child entity networking when parented to entities with global broadcast (cargo ship)
Optimized server browser
Optimized font memory usage
Added more localization
Shader usage optimizations
Improved CJK font rendering
Added invisible_collider, prevent_movment_volume and gas station prefabs for map makers
Hapis Island map optimizations
Weapon VFX optimizations
Weapon visual improvements
Scope no longer scales with UI Scale
Water jug spawns with less water
Puzzle reset bugs fixed (can no longer camp and wait for a respawn)
Nerfed oil rig loot
Flashlights cast additional light in first person illuminating an area beyond just the light cone
Lowered all research costs