Rust Updates
Every devblog and community update Facepunch has posted, newest first. Each links out to the official post at rust.facepunch.com/news. The big monthly update lands with the force wipe on the first Thursday of the month; the Rust wipe schedule shows which servers just wiped and which wipe next.
Darkness falls upon the island as monsters re-awaken from their slumber. The rifts open in random locations, leading to who-knows-where. Enter if you dare, but if you do, you'd better prepare!
This month's update brings a major refresh to farming with the introduction of new Livestock animals, critters, and swimmers. Plus, fresh food recipes, the new Biofuel Generator, an overhaul to Sandbag Barricades, and new Powergrid Lootrooms to plunder. And all the usual bug fixes, improvements, and QoL changes!
This month's update brings you Monument Blockers, Breakable Attack Heli Armour, HQM Nodes, Upkeep Group Scaling, various item buffs, and QoL and balance changes, as well as many performance updates and much more!
This month's update brings you Player Maintained Monuments in the form of a new Satellite Crash, Dome Pumping, restorable Power Plant, plus more. As well as plenty of balances, bug fixes, optimisations, upgrades, and more improvements!
This month's update features a New Monument: The Apartment Complex, Rentable Shops, a New Clan System & Table, plus QoL changes and much more!
This month's update brings Rust's biggest player overhaul in years, featuring new player models and animations, a new armour set, and the M16A2 rifle. It also includes QoL improvements, bug fixes, performance enhancements, and much more!
This month's update brings you Workbench upgrades, the new Mortar, improved Tin Can Alarm, as well as model refreshes and remakes, plus many QoL improvements, bug fixes, and more!
This month's update brings you TWO new items - the Armoured Ladder Hatch and Water Wheel, additionally loads of QOL improvements, bug fixes, better performance and much more!
This month's update brings massive improvements to how you live, build, and fight on water and in The Deep Sea. As well as extended daytime, balances, fixes, and quality of life improvements.
2026's Lunar New Year celebrations have begun! Celebrate the occasion by honouring the Year of the Horse with the Ornate Horse Mask, Horse Armour, and more.
Ahoy matey! This month, we bring you buildable boats, deep sea, tropical islands, ghost ships, new and improved AI and much, much more! It's a big one.
Naval Staging bits, Twitch Drops, a Father Son Duo, Rustmas recaps, sneaky C4, and more!
Servers are now wiped, Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. In this blog, we recap 2025 and reveal some upcoming changes for 2026.
It's that wonderful time of the year again - our Christmas event is (s)now live, Rustmas Winter Drop Fest is here!
We Bit Off More Than We Could Chew
This month we bring you further progression changes, performance improvements, mini fridge, box sorting, RPG skin and much more!
The infamous Death Korps of Krieg march into Rust, bringing their grim, war-forged resolve to the island...
Meta changes, huge balance changes and performance gains, custom crosshair, drone storage and much more!
Music Videos, Rust Mobile, Twitch Drops, Epic Desk Mats, and more!
This month we bring you an update of fixes and improvements! Long distance gun sounds, team bag labels, player processing optimizations, Exhibit DLC Item Pack, & more!
Rust's official development updates and patch notes, linking straight to Facepunch's own post for each one rather than a mirrored copy.