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Workbench levels 2 and 3 gained fragment requirements tied to monument puzzles and high-end loot. Scrap alone no longer describes the route to a higher-tier bench.
Progression takes you back into monuments
Automatic weapons moved away from the old repeatable recoil patterns toward aim drift and increasing inaccuracy during sustained fire. Old spray-pattern muscle memory no longer describes the same gunplay.
Relearn recoil and burst control
Each workbench gained branching unlock paths paid for with scrap. You can work toward a chosen blueprint; researching a found item at a Research Table remains an alternative.
Changes how you unlock equipment
Heavy Fuses restart the Power Plant, and a live grid unlocks features at monuments all over the map. It is the spine the rest of this update hangs off.
Recheck your monument route
Industrial conveyors move items between storage, powered crafters use blueprints, and electric furnaces smelt without fuel. Electric furnaces do not produce charcoal, so they don't replace every furnace job.
Changes how your base processes resources
Tool Cupboards add upkeep tax when more than four recent players are authorised on the base.
Recheck your base plan and upkeep
Search matches source titles and dates, not the full patch text. Historical devblogs can describe work that never shipped. Original titles and linked articles are in English.
Custom boats and a new offshore event region arrived with islands, ghost ships and scientist patrols. Deep Sea opens intermittently; it is a trip to prepare for, not a permanent place to build.
Plan a separate offshore expedition
Dense jungle introduced climbable trees, swingable vines, ruins, tigers and crocodiles. It changes visibility and movement, not just the scenery.
Adapt your routes and awareness
Eligible player-crafted armour can have insert slots with different bonuses. Slot count is rolled during crafting, so two pieces of the same armour are not necessarily equivalent.
Inspect armour instead of judging by its name
Reworked cliffs and rock formations joined new canyons, lakes and oases, with longer rivers. Familiar terrain assumptions need another look when choosing routes and a base location.
Scout terrain before choosing where to build
Cows and sheep are being added as livestock that can be captured, kept and bred, producing dung plus milk from cows and wool from sheep.
Recheck your farming setup
Cockpit armour on the Attack Helicopter and armoured Hot Air Balloon now falls off in stages as the vehicle takes damage.
Adapt your transport and vehicle fights
Selected red keycard routes now include destructible blockers that delay early access to high-tier loot.
Recheck your monument route
A new Launch Site terminal lets one player steer a decaying satellite and pick its crash site. Everyone on the server watches it come down, and everyone knows where the crates are.
Plan for changed world events
Ballistic Armour, BDU clothing and the burst-fire M16A2 arrived without crafting recipes. A high-tier workbench alone does not give access to this equipment.
High-end loot matters beyond blueprints
Most keycard monuments changed their loot reset behaviour. Severe radiation around puzzle areas helps clear players before refresh, so camping a loot room is no longer the same strategy.
Leave puzzle areas when radiation builds
Tech-tree and research prices were reduced, and workbench crafting lost its scrap cost. Blueprint fragments remained required; this did not announce a permanent monthly blueprint-wipe rule.
Rebudget your early-wipe progression
Crates moved across almost every monument, and Dome, Ferry Terminal and Radtown gained green-card puzzles. Nuclear Missile Silo switched to a red keycard requirement.
Old crate routes and card plans may be wrong
Catapults, ballistas, battering rams and siege towers arrived in vanilla as well as Primitive mode. The separate Primitive ruleset restricts high-tech gear; those restrictions are not vanilla rules.
Account for new raiding approaches
Safe-zone recyclers became slower and less rewarding; exposed monument recyclers gained higher yields. The safest recycling trip is no longer equivalent to the most productive one.
Recheck the economy of recycling runs
Procedural labs added puzzles and hostile corridors on the seabed. Submarines sold at fishing villages provide underwater transport and access through the labs' moonpools.
Prepare for underwater exploration
Train tunnels added another route between monument areas, with drivable work carts, loot and armed tunnel dwellers. Travel underground is a combat route, not a safe shortcut.
Choose a different route across the map
The Oil Rig added a scientist-guarded offshore monument. Starting its locked crate event brings Heavy Scientists, making the extraction part of the fight.
Plan for armed reinforcements
Electricity introduced player-built circuits with solar panels, wind power, batteries, sensors and switches. Defences and door controls can be wired together with the Wire Tool.
Build powered base systems
Powered puzzles connected green, blue and red keycards to higher-tier loot. Bring the right card and a fuse instead of treating every monument as an open crate run.
Relearn your monument route
Each wipe the Air Wolf helipad at Bandit Camp starts in disrepair, and the air vehicle vendor will not sell until players repair it.
Recheck costs and trade-offs
The new Biofuel Generator converts raw or spoiled meat and other organic matter into Low Grade Fuel, but must be stirred by hand.
Recheck your power dependencies
Locked loot rooms are being added to many monuments, opening once enough Heavy Fuses are inserted at the Power Plant to generate the required power.
Recheck your monument route
A new vendor outside the Stables buys grown cattle, sheep and wool through a bartering system with randomised offers.
Recheck your farming setup
High Quality Metal ore now has its own scarce node and collectable; the node is more likely to appear in the Jungle.
Recheck where you gather and travel
The Drone Marketplace must charge from the restored Power Plant before it can accept purchases.
Recheck your power dependencies
The Medical Honey Bandage is a new Workbench Level 1 item placed between the Bandage and Medical Syringe.
Recheck your equipment
Steering, turning and suspension have been retuned, with a new handbrake on the Control key.
Adapt your transport and vehicle fights
The refreshed control tower has two terminals on the second floor, charged from fuse boxes on the grid. One raises the airdrop rate map-wide, the other calls a resupply crate to the tarmac.
Recheck your monument route
With the grid live, a switch on Large Oil Rig pumps crude to the Dome for 20 minutes. Collecting it needs a Tanker module and a car lift, so it is a convoy job rather than a solo run.
Recheck where you gather and travel
Walling off a chunk of the map is now a running cost. High walls have a static 20% upkeep, sitting between the 10% and 33% that building blocks pay.
Recheck your base plan and upkeep
New roadside water pipes spawn empty. Getting them running means keeping two gearboxes turning inside Water Treatment Plant, and gears are consumed as they go.
Recheck your monument route
Prices are unchanged but stock is cut hard: 2 items instead of 10, restocking every 10 minutes instead of every 2.
Recheck costs and trade-offs
The Apartment Complex introduced rentable rooms and player-run shops. Keep rent funded; a master key can also expose occupied rooms and shops to theft.
Understand the risk before renting
Clans added roles, permissions, their own chat and nearby member map positions, managed through Clan Tables. The clan system is disabled in Hardcore mode.
Coordinate beyond a regular team
A deployable mortar introduced separate anti-personnel and structure-damaging shells. Aiming requires estimation; recoil and inaccuracy prevent perfectly identical repeated shots.
Account for attacks over obstacles
Nine non-craftable upgrades added different workbench bonuses. They fit into a bench's inventory, so finding and protecting upgrades became another part of base progression.
Look beyond the workbench's tier
The existing model became the Military Silencer and lost its crafting recipe. Craftable soda-can and oil-filter alternatives arrived with durability, damage and velocity trade-offs.
Recheck your suppressed weapon setup
A cooking workbench introduced recipes with stat bonuses. Meat can spoil; refrigeration pauses that timer, adding a reason to manage food storage and power.
Plan food preparation and storage
Placing large external walls and gates gained a stationary placement delay. Wooden barricades were enlarged to serve as the quicker deployable cover option.
Change how you take cover in fights
Small craftable and larger loot-only backpacks expanded inventory capacity. They occupy the backpack slot and drop on death, so the extra storage also becomes loot for someone else.
Carry more, but risk more on death
The Attack Helicopter introduced a pilot-and-gunner combat vehicle. Homing launchers added a ground response, while wearable parachutes created new approaches from above.
Watch the sky and plan an escape
Modular cars arrived with different chassis and interchangeable modules. Roadside wrecks became vehicles you can restore and configure using a vehicle lift.
Build transport around your load
Plant growth began depending on light, water, soil and temperature. Genetics and cloning let you preserve useful plant traits instead of starting from unknown seeds every time.
Manage crop conditions and genetics
The team interface added a way to identify teammates in-game, instead of relying only on matching clothing or asking someone to jump.
Identify allies during a fight
Animal fences and gates are added to help keep livestock contained.
Recheck your base plan and upkeep
Throwing grenades, Timed Explosive Charges and Satchel Charges is now predicted on the client, reducing the delay felt on higher ping.
A smaller change to everyday play
Decorative frogs, rabbits, squirrels, sea turtles, crabs and jellyfish now appear in biomes that suit them.
Watch for changed NPC behaviour
Heavy Fuses last four times longer on servers with 10 or fewer players online, scaling back to normal at 100 players.
Recheck costs and trade-offs
Cows provide milk, which can be skimmed into Skimmed Milk and Cream after 4 hours of refrigeration and used in new tea and pie recipes.
Recheck your equipment
Rust is migrating from Unity's Built-in Render Pipeline to a custom Rust Render Pipeline, which Facepunch expects to give slightly better performance at first.
Performance depends on your setup
Sandbag Barricades now have four stages, each upgraded by stacking another sandbag on top, with the final stage being a pillbox.
Recheck your base plan and upkeep
More than 70 dropped items now use dedicated world models, alongside refreshed Flashlight, arrow and Salvaged Hammer art.
A smaller change to everyday play
The update changes physics scaling, trims memory and VRAM use, and pools vehicles to reduce recreation stutters.
Performance depends on your setup
Sprinklers push Radwater through more armour types, while SAM Sites intercept hostile drones more reliably.
Recheck costs and trade-offs
Oil rigs, Cargo Ship, Patrol Helicopter, Bradley and satellite crash sites now preserve more of their state through a restart.
Plan for changed world events
The pressurised tank and gearboxes now provide predictable water-flow time and scale pipe output with pressure.
Recheck your monument route
A paid pack with two real mini-games. The pool table and dart board are self-contained, playable in real time, and keep a score other people can try to beat.
Optional content, not core progression
With the grid active, or the side generator running, the garage door works from a switch and the car lift inside becomes usable.
Recheck your monument route
Hover looting a body bag did nothing when the item needed a clothing swap. In a fight that meant unequipping your own armour by hand mid-raid.
A previously broken interaction was fixed
The main menu now loads only what it needs and streams the rest. On the server side, the experimental Jobs 4 mode gains fully parallel entity saving.
Performance depends on your setup
Bonus items from the Recycle Bin upgrade now land in a storage attached to the bin instead of needing to be caught as they appear.
A smaller change to everyday play
One respawn point at a time can be shown on the compass, and favourited bags sort to the top of the death screen list.
A smaller change to everyday play
Nodes inside safe zones could only be hit with a rock, so they piled up and consumed the global node population, starving the rest of the map.
Recheck where you gather and travel
A new bind swaps between the shield on your back with ADS available, and the shield up and blocking. There is a cooldown of a couple of seconds between stances.
Recheck your equipment
A new freezer inside the Supermarket produces a steady stream of chilled food for as long as it draws power from the grid, with a larger cache every so often.
Recheck your monument route
The headdress was too strong an early pick because it gave good head protection and still allowed a bandana. Crafting it now needs a workbench, in line with other helmets.
Recheck costs and trade-offs
Several client optimisations reduce memory use by hundreds of megabytes and cut frame time in busy scenes.
Performance depends on your setup
Facepunch is enabling the newer navigation system on selected official servers before deciding whether to make it the default.
Watch for changed NPC behaviour
The painting UI can project the current brush onto an object, and crafting can choose a random unlocked skin per item.
A smaller change to everyday play
A full rewrite with a dolly camera, a keyframe timeline, a sandbox mode and PNG sequence export. It is off by default behind demo.newui while feedback comes in.
Relevant to creators and server owners
The first wearable opened to the workshop in a while. Download the model from the in-game workshop under the Small Backpack item and add your own materials.
Optional content, not core progression
A paid interactive deployable: carve away at a stone block until it is the shape you want, then leave it standing.
Optional content, not core progression
This briefing combines selected historical milestones with reviewed recent patch summaries. It is not a complete list of every change. Cards describe what changed on the stated release day, not a guarantee that every original balance value still applies today. Original articles are in English.
Impact is RustFront's editorial judgement, not a measured score: core combat, progression and base systems come first, then major additions and balance changes, then smaller fixes and optional content. Dates break ties. Archive titles and yearly recaps are not automatically turned into released changes.
Selected release milestones: 8 Jun 2018 - 1 Oct 2026. Historical selection reviewed 5 Sept 2026.
Original patch and devblog links, not a complete history of every Rust change. All pages in the indexed source archives were checked.
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