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Rust's March update adds an underground rail network and tunnel dwellers

Rust's March update lands soon - naturally, it is March after all - and Facepunch has provided an early look at what to expect. The heart of this update is a new underground rail network, which also brings us new features like workcarts and tunnel dwellers. If that's not enough, you're also getting slot machines you can use to gamble your scrap away.

The rail network will introduce train entrances to major landmarks including the Launch Site or Military Tunnels, which you'll be able to easily locate on the map. Those'll lead you into the tunnels that house the rail system. You will find valuable loot down here, of course, but it will be protected by a population of angry tunnel dwellers.

You'll also find two drivable workcarts at each station. Top them off with basic fuel and you can use them to travel along the tracks, and you'll be able to repair them if they take damage - which they probably will, since you can ram other carts that get in your way.

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Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar new year to everyone! To help everyone celebrate we have added some new and old items to the Steam item store.

First off, throughout the Lunar New Year celebration, everyone will be able to craft a set of throw-able firecrackers to make a racket. Traditionally set off to scare away evil spirits, many people would set them off when opening the front door before they went out. We somehow doubt these will scare off a dedicated door camper but you can try!

Server update is required to enable craftable firecrackers - experience on community servers may vary.

[h2]Ox Mask[/h2]
To celebrate the year of the Ox we have created a beautiful Metal Ox Mask with jiggling tassles. Similar to last years Rat Mask, it replaces the wolf headdress.

The Ox mask can be purchased on the Rust item store.

[h2]New Year Items[/h2]

In addition to this year's Ox mask, we’ve added items back from prior years sale to the item store, the Dragon Door Knocker, Gong, Fireworks Packs and the Chinese Lantern.

Also, Don't forget Rust is currently 33% off in the Steam Lunar New Year Sale until the 15th February, now is the perfect time to get your friends involved!

Rust has hit yet another player count record on Steam

The Steam player count records just keep on coming for Facepunch Studios' survival game Rust. Last month, the title - which has seen a massive surge of popularity of late thanks to an uptick in streamer interest - hit a new peak concurrent player count record of around 245k players. Now, the multiplayer game's average player count has soared to all-new highs.

Head to Rust's Steam Charts page and you'll see that - as of writing - the game's average player count over the past 30 days has hit a new record high of 146,404 - far beyond averages seen on Valve's platform since its launch way back in 2013. It's also just over 4k beyond January's record-breaking average of 142,117 - an eye-watering leap from the regular figures between the 46-61k mark seen over the course of last year.

Given it's still early February, we won't know for a good few weeks yet whether the average will stay this high across the month - and so, whether we'll see a new record average player for the whole of February. But, it's safe to say Rust's popularity isn't showing any signs of dying down any time soon.

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