Rust News

Charitable Rust is in just a few days!



[h3]November 19th-21st[/h3]
There will be 48 hours of exclusive drops on the Rustafied channel along with all of the creator/special guest channels participating in the event.

[h3]November 19th-26th[/h3]
The generic drops can be obtained from any channel streaming Rust that has drops enabled. These drops go for the entire week!



Don't forget to get your accounts synced at https://twitch.facepunch.com/ to ensure you can claim your drops!

We will have an array of Charity skins on the item store for sale as well, starting Thursday the 17th. These will be account-bound (cannot trade or sell them) as the proceeds from them go to World Central Kitchen.




Rust is going to be celebrating our 9th Birthday on December 11th, 2022!



There will be an active server event enabled for the day. You spawn with cake and party hats. Many loot boxes around the map will have balloons on them. Just a little slice of fun in your day of death and destruction :)

Special thanks to our community for your continued support and helping us make it this far!




Our friend over at Real&Game built us a life-size storage box!

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He's made an assortment of other Rust items be sure to check out his other videos!




Memeio been living up to his name this month.

I present to you: cRust

• He made it in 7 days ..allegedly
• It's better than Rust ..allegedly
• 1 person at PAX enjoyed it ..allegedly
• Absolutely no copyright infringements ..maybe

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WHENS CAPYBARAS??




This month we have your resident building inspector, Dust!

"Yo! My name's Dust, I'm a Rust YouTuber with a focus on base build videos, but also high quality cinematics and full length gameplay movies! My friend convinced me to download Rust in 2018 and I’ve barely seen a blade of grass since. What really hooked me was watching awesome content by Evil Wurst, Blooprint, Tesla, Frost, aloneintokyo and a ton of other insanely talented creators.

I started YouTube pretty recently and things quickly took off. Even though I started as a build channel, there’s been a ton of demand for more movies so I’m working on putting out more action packed wipe content! Stay tuned!

On a real note, my favorite part about this whole journey has been the friendships that I’ve made along the way. Rust is a super unique game where you’ll end up spending hundreds or thousands of hours with people, so you’ll tend to build some really strong and genuine friendships. The creator community in Rust is also super collaborative and filled with some awesome people."

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He's gotten pretty good with those cinematics!




Camomo sent us in some awesome cosplay pics from PAX AUS last month!

Think one of these guys was in Memeio's cRust video :)



There are professional versions too!






Just a heads up for all you Rust Roleplay enjoyers out there! Yogscast JingleJam Charity event is set for December 10th, 2022.



Keep an eye on their socials for news and more details.




If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

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Arms manufacturers contracted by Cobalt were tasked with producing a new side arm to meet the personal defense requirements of the organization. After an exhaustive review of potential candidates, the Prototype 17 was selected. This new weapon has a magazine capacity of 18 and fires in deadly 3 round bursts with the single pull of the trigger.



In addition, it features tritium sights for rapid target acquisition and engagement under low light conditions. It has been noted that some survivors have scavenged and reverse engineered the weapon, extracting some of its components and allowing them to augment their own weapons with the 3 round burst ability.






We've added a new train carriage that you might find on sidings.



Inside you'll find a poker table with four seats, two slot machines, and a brand new blackjack computer that can handle 1-3 players.



All the features of blackjack are here, and blackjack pays out 3:2. The computer hates to lose, but he plays fair. You can make an initial bet of between 5 and 500 scrap. Just keep an ear out for what's going on nearby - this isn't a safe zone!






[h3]Swap Attachments[/h3]
Swap Attachments more easily by right clicking or click and dragging to attachment slots

[h3]Get new bags while dead[/h3]
Death screen will now update if you are assigned a new bag while already dead

[h3]Cap Menu FPS to 60[/h3]
New setting in Options menu, prevents high framerates




For the past few months I've been working on a new system to improve how we render monuments at a distance while maintaining or improving the current performance. It uses a technique called HLOD (Hierarchical Level of Detail) and involves baking the monument as it should be seen at a distance down into a single mesh. A key requirement was to make sure this didn't add any extra work for our environment artists, this process is almost entirely automated.





The final performance improvements were minimal, but the increased visual fidelity at a distance still seemed worthwhile to ship. You should notice more geometry and detail, as well as entire monuments that will now be visible when they weren't before.




We have plans in place to switch the default networking layer of Rust servers from RakNet to Steam Networking in late November or early December, further communication will follow.

This change requires servers to have a separate Steam query port set via the -queryport server startup parameter. When no query port is set, the server will default to either game port + 1 or rcon port + 1, depending on which number is larger.

Hosts of shared servers will need to ensure the query port is forwarded correctly, which is why we are making this announcement ahead of time. Servers can be switched over to Steam Networking for testing via the -swnet startup parameter, which we recommend doing ahead of time in order to ensure a smooth transition.




Halloween events have come to an end, good job survivors at closing all of Cobalt's project R.U.I.N portals! Hopefully, that's the last of them we see...




Every year Rustafied hosts a giant charity event. They have servers dedicated to mini games, live streams, Twitch drops, giveaways, and more!

We will also be listing some exclusive skins on the Rust Item Store where the proceeds of these items will go to World Central Kitchen.



There will be some exclusive Twitch drops for 2 days starting November 19th and some generic drops for the whole week.

Make sure you get synced up at twitch.facepunch.com to get and claim your drops when the event starts!

Now through November 2nd Rust is on sale at 33% off across the board!



This includes all the DLC's and the Soundtrack!




Just dropping in another reminder that Charitable Rust is next month!

Every year Rustafied hosts a giant charity event. They have servers dedicated to mini games, live streams, Twitch drops, giveaways, and more!

We will also be listing some exclusive skins on the Rust Item Store where the proceeds of these items will go to World Central Kitchen.



There will be some exclusive drops for 2 days and some generic drops for the whole week.

Make sure you get synced up at twitch.facepunch.com to get and claim your drops when the event starts!

If you are a content creator/live streamer and you want to participate in the event you can sign up here.

Full details to follow when we get closer to the event!




Last month we had an epic Twitch Rivals event and Frost has a great high octane and emotional recap of all of it.

Settle in and grab some popcorn.

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That end though...




Project Nova is breaking the mold again bringing you a unique low poly Rust!

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They have a couple different servers to try out on both sides of the globe.

You can join their discord for more information or check out their website!




This is one for you illuminati tin foil hatters. Raynbirds takes a deep dive into what it means when a gun flops down on the ground in a certain direction.

Seems possibly useful on Hardcore servers that don't have maps if you feel like chucking guns on the ground!

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Half life 3 confirmed?




Panpots, in collaboration with MilesdetusFiguras3D, has made an amazing life size T3 Workbench!

This has been a bit of a work in progress and we're amazed at the results. So much talent out there!






Listen, there's a few Breaking Bad Rust memes out there but this one has to take the cake.

Jonkari P plz make more

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I'm just going to leave this here.

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If you made something cool or saw something cool, reach out! Tag me on the Twitterverse or u/ErrnieGerrn Reddit.

Covert art by llennoco22.

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The Halloween events are now enabled! Once roughly every two in-game days, a candy hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many candies as you can. The top 3 players are given special loot bags as a reward. These candies and loot bags can be opened for various types of loot ranging from scrap all the way up to an M249!

If you don't make the podium, that's okay. The candies you collect can be upgraded for better loot.



There are various items available to help you during your hunt. The Pumpkin Bucket will allow instant pickup of candies and the Scarecrow Wrap and Ghost Costume will provide you with an advantage via Candy Vision.



The Halloween event will run until November 3rd.

Have fun!




Cultists are said to have been opening portals throughout the world, others believe it's a Cobalt experiment code-named R.U.I.N gone horribly wrong. Not much is known about these portals or what they do, only a few chads have entered and made it back alive.

Do you dare to enter?



Server owners can adjust the portal count using the halloweendungeon.population convar.




This year we've added three new Halloween themed items to the Rust store.


[h3]Hockey Facemask[/h3]
Hide your facial deformities with this creepy hockey mask.



The Hockey Facemask skin is a reskin of the Metal Facemask.


[h3]Cultist Deer Torch[/h3]
The Cultists must have dropped this while opening the portals throughout the world.



The Cultist Deer Torch is a reskin of the starter torch. Once the torch skin is selected or crafted, you'll respawn with this skin.


[h3]Baseball Bat[/h3]
It wouldn't be a zombie apocalypse without hitting zombies in the head with a baseball bat!



The Baseball bat is a reskin of the mace melee weapon.

Now purchasable at the Rust item store.






To start building your own monster, first, you must slay scarecrows and mummies that roam the lands. Once you've collected a head, torso and legs, craft yourself a Frankenstein's table and place the body parts within the table. Awaken your new pet monster and control it by pressing "P".



The monster will follow your orders without question. It'll follow you around the map, defend you if attacked and help slay foes you wish to attack.



If you're having trouble accessing the pet menu or already have a key bound to "P" then use the following console command: bind X +pets or open the in-game controls menu.

HALLOWEEN ITEMS

Last years Halloween items have been raised from the dead, head over to the Rust item store.



Additionally, we've resurrected the following items:



[h3]There is also a bunch of Halloween themed skins on the Rust Item Store![/h3]