Red keycard routes now have monument blockers
Selected red keycard routes now include destructible blockers that delay early access to high-tier loot.
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Stories shown: 12 of 34 · Smaller changes: 83
Large groups now pay extra base upkeep
Tool Cupboards add upkeep tax when more than four recent players are authorised on the base.
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Attack helicopter armour now breaks away
Cockpit armour on the Attack Helicopter and armoured Hot Air Balloon now falls off in stages as the vehicle takes damage.
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Rare HQM nodes now spawn on the island
High Quality Metal ore now has its own scarce node and collectable; the node is more likely to appear in the Jungle.
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Drone deliveries now depend on Power Plant
The Drone Marketplace must charge from the restored Power Plant before it can accept purchases.
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Honey gets a new healing recipe
The Medical Honey Bandage is a new Workbench Level 1 item placed between the Bandage and Medical Syringe.
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Modular cars gain a handbrake
Steering, turning and suspension have been retuned, with a new handbrake on the Control key.
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Radwater and SAM Sites are stronger
Sprinklers push Radwater through more armour types, while SAM Sites intercept hostile drones more reliably.
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Server event saving now handles restarts better
Oil rigs, Cargo Ship, Patrol Helicopter, Bradley and satellite crash sites now preserve more of their state through a restart.
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Water Treatment maintenance is simpler
The pressurised tank and gearboxes now provide predictable water-flow time and scale pipe output with pressure.
· Breach and ClearPhysics, memory and vehicle stutters were reduced
The update changes physics scaling, trims memory and VRAM use, and pools vehicles to reduce recreation stutters.
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Dropped items and tools receive new artwork
More than 70 dropped items now use dedicated world models, alongside refreshed Flashlight, arrow and Salvaged Hammer art.
· Breach and ClearMatching smaller changes (83)
- The Heavy Plate Helmet now muffles game audio and costs more to craft. (3 Sept 2026)
- Heavy Plate Jacket and Pants movement now makes a sound other players can hear. (3 Sept 2026)
- Swamp trees now give wood yields in line with other tree types. (3 Sept 2026)
- The Semi-Automatic Pistol loses more damage at range and costs slightly more to craft. (3 Sept 2026)
- Several pies have longer effects and adjusted recipes; Hunter's Pie reduces more bleeding. (3 Sept 2026)
- F1, Bee, Molotov and Flashbang stacks are now three; Beancan Grenades stack to four. (3 Sept 2026)
- The Homing Missile Launcher locks on sooner. (3 Sept 2026)
- SMG bodies are slightly more common and rifle bodies slightly less common. (3 Sept 2026)
- Large Medkits now reduce radiation. (3 Sept 2026)
- The Composter UI now shows processing time. (3 Sept 2026)
- Rentable shops refrigerate food while the Power Plant is active. (3 Sept 2026)
- Dome fuel pumps now store 1,000 crude oil instead of 10,000. (3 Sept 2026)
- Rugs and Bear Rugs provide full comfort from farther away. (3 Sept 2026)
- Clans gained new achievements. (3 Sept 2026)
- The satellite control room gains a red siren during descent. (3 Sept 2026)
- Procedural maps have improved rock and cliff placement. (3 Sept 2026)
- Hundreds of small entities now use shorter network ranges to reduce traffic. (3 Sept 2026)
- The Longsword now swings slightly more accurately with less time between attacks. (3 Sept 2026)
- Boat Planner research is cheaper; unlocked Garage Doors can be picked up without building privilege, and Chinese Lanterns can be picked up with fuel inside. (3 Sept 2026)
- A Crystal Assault Rifle skin is available in five colour variations. (3 Sept 2026)
- Server owners can enable deep-sea terrain across the main island with a convar. (3 Sept 2026)
- Firework icons were refreshed and the Large Fireworks Pack gains a white boomer. (3 Sept 2026)
- Demo tools received UI, dolly-camera and sandbox improvements. (3 Sept 2026)
- EU Hardcore 1 and US East Hardcore 1 map size fell from 4,250 to 3,750; EU Primitive 2, CAN Primitive 1 and US West Primitive 1 were retired. (3 Sept 2026)
- Fixed instant aiming and firing while blocking with the shield, a Siege Tower Launch Site puzzle skip, and entry through high external stone walls placed on ice sheets. (3 Sept 2026)
- The Snow Jacket gets a sizable buff to bite and cold protection, making it more useful in the arctic. (6 Aug 2026)
- Blowpipe now costs 10 cloth to craft, down from 25. (6 Aug 2026)
- Wooden Dart damage raised to 50, up from 40. (6 Aug 2026)
- Bucket Helmet now costs 20 metal fragments, down from 35, with a small projectile and bite protection buff. (6 Aug 2026)
- Collared Shirt gets a small radiation and projectile protection buff. (6 Aug 2026)
- NPC vendors that sold Kayak and Paddle blueprints now sell the kayak and paddle themselves. (6 Aug 2026)
- Siege weapons are vulnerable to fire again, as originally intended. (6 Aug 2026)
- Boom box volume can now be adjusted after deploying it. (6 Aug 2026)
- IO entities support custom minimum and maximum wire slack, with a minimum enforced on powerline pole wires. (6 Aug 2026)
- Power Plant environment art updated for its powered and unpowered states. (6 Aug 2026)
- A new snapping bind covers all snapping actions. (6 Aug 2026)
- The game UI navigation order has been restored so the crafting button is back on the right. (6 Aug 2026)
- The console input field no longer has a character limit. (6 Aug 2026)
- The pie menu gives feedback when +prevskin or +nextskin are unbound. (6 Aug 2026)
- Weather effects perform slightly better. (6 Aug 2026)
- Anti-aliasing mode switching is slightly faster. (6 Aug 2026)
- The Vagabond deep sea treasure mission no longer requires a return trip to the Vagabond. (6 Aug 2026)
- Treasure missions from the Hunter NPC and the Vagabond now show mystery reward icons. (6 Aug 2026)
- NPC dialogue readout times adjusted. (6 Aug 2026)
- The Master Key now has a model, with a full view model and animations. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the battering ram sometimes doing no damage to constructions. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed cannons spawning in stacks above their maximum stack size. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed being able to jump through the ceiling of the medium apartment. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed being unable to shoot other players inside apartments in hardcore mode. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed continuing to steal items in an apartment or shop after a break-in ends. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed weapon attachment insert and remove sounds being audible to nearby players. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed water containers draining into a disconnected container. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed being unable to place wooden barricades or barbed wooden barricades. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed armoured hot air balloon health resetting after a server restart. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed being able to move safe zone NPCs with a hot air balloon. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed a handful of melee antihack false positives. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed rock and cliff prefabs that left gaps between rocks and terrain on procedural maps. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed loot containers restarting rather than resuming their refresh cooldown after a server restart. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed an exploit that shortened the repeat cooldown on the Hunter NPC treasure mission. (6 Aug 2026)
- The Hunter NPC mission is renamed Treasure Hunter, since Vagabond has a separate treasure hunt. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed view model animation glitches on high fire rate guns at low frame rates. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the compass clipping into the shield while bracing. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed decals not appearing at all on low settings. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed health bar blurriness and artifacts at low UI scale. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed nameplates and the pie menu not clearing on disconnect. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the door controller triggering on server restart. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the wallpaper planner mismatching when switching construction type. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed +prevskin and +nextskin not being bound by default. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed main menu errors when Steam is unreachable. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the terrain parallax effect. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed paintball overalls always appearing white, and the paintball gun world model not showing its pellet state. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed crashes and freezes caused by two threads taking the same instance from the UniTask pool. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the Rust+ camera not updating while controlling a turret. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the workshop item list not scrolling all the way down. (6 Aug 2026)
- Softcore: fixed workbench upgrades being lost inside Tier 2 and Tier 3 workbench corpses. (6 Aug 2026)
- Hardcore: fixed being unable to loot players in vanilla safe zones. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed animals walking through vine trees, and RustNav.Draw sometimes dropping a player's connection. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed not being able to use a lunar new year spear to craft a stone spear. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed the horse eating sound not playing, and the BBQ not opening its lid in the skin viewer. (6 Aug 2026)
- Fixed a typo inside the bus at Apartments, and cacti with mismatched physical materials. (6 Aug 2026)
- Removed UsePlayerUpdateJobs 2. Jobs 3 is now the default. (6 Aug 2026)
- Rust+ no longer receives vending machine or event map markers for cargo, helicopters and the travelling vendor. (6 Aug 2026)
- Custom pie menus, tooltips, canvas groups and image masks are new tools for server plugin interfaces. (6 Aug 2026)
All indexed story links
- Red keycard routes now have monument blockers · 3 Sept 2026
- Large groups now pay extra base upkeep · 3 Sept 2026
- Attack helicopter armour now breaks away · 3 Sept 2026
- Rare HQM nodes now spawn on the island · 3 Sept 2026
- Drone deliveries now depend on Power Plant · 3 Sept 2026
- Honey gets a new healing recipe · 3 Sept 2026
- Modular cars gain a handbrake · 3 Sept 2026
- Radwater and SAM Sites are stronger · 3 Sept 2026
- Server event saving now handles restarts better · 3 Sept 2026
- Water Treatment maintenance is simpler · 3 Sept 2026
- Physics, memory and vehicle stutters were reduced · 3 Sept 2026
- Dropped items and tools receive new artwork · 3 Sept 2026
- The new NPC navmesh starts a limited rollout · 3 Sept 2026
- Painting and skin selection are easier to preview · 3 Sept 2026
- The Power Plant now runs the island · 6 Aug 2026
- You choose where the satellite lands · 6 Aug 2026
- Crude oil now flows from the rigs to the Dome · 6 Aug 2026
- Water Treatment Plant has to be maintained to keep the map wet · 6 Aug 2026
- Airfield's new tower calls in airdrops and a Chinook crate · 6 Aug 2026
- High external walls now cost 20% upkeep · 6 Aug 2026
- Water well vendors are a boost again, not a farm replacement · 6 Aug 2026
- Hover looting armour from a corpse now works · 6 Aug 2026
- Shields can be swapped between blocking and aiming · 6 Aug 2026
- Bags can be pinned to the compass and marked as favourites · 6 Aug 2026
- The Recycle Bin workbench upgrade keeps its own bonus output · 6 Aug 2026
- Ore nodes and woodpiles no longer spawn in safe zones · 6 Aug 2026
- Wolf Headdress needs a Tier 1 workbench · 6 Aug 2026
- Oxum's garage powers up with a working car lift · 6 Aug 2026
- The Supermarket freezer stocks chilled food while powered · 6 Aug 2026
- Startup is about twice as fast and servers save entities in parallel · 6 Aug 2026
- Bar Games Pack adds playable pool and darts · 6 Aug 2026
- Stone Sculpture lets you carve a block into whatever you like · 6 Aug 2026
- The demo UI has been rebuilt for content creators · 6 Aug 2026
- The Small Backpack is this month's workshop skinnable · 6 Aug 2026