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.

673 updates tracked
Community Update 240 COMMUNITY
2022-03-16

Hotels, cool rust art, freaky animations, IFTTT, and more!

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March 2022 Update DEVBLOG
2022-03-03

New Monument lighting, world models, Soundtrack release, QOL changes, fixes and more.

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Arctic Update DEVBLOG OUR BREAKDOWN
2022-02-03

This months update brings a new monument, the Arctic Research Base, snowmobiles, polar bears, AI update, spray can item, QOL changes and much more!

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Lunar New Year DEVBLOG
2022-01-28

Celebrate the 2022 Lunar new year, the year of the Tiger with a festive Tiger mask, craftable firecrackers, sky lantern, gong and more!

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Onwards and Upwards DEVBLOG
2022-01-06

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 2021 and reveal some upcoming changes.

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Season's Beatings! DEVBLOG
2021-12-16

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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Community Update 239 COMMUNITY
2021-12-14

Merry Rustmas!  Base decorating contest, Prop Hunt, Birthday fun, Rick Rolling, and more!

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December Update DEVBLOG OUR BREAKDOWN
2021-12-02

Excavator changes, AI tweaks, some weapon balancing and the usual bug fixes and improvements

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community update 237 COMMUNITY
2021-11-26

Steam Awards, Charity Recaps, Blueprint Wipes, and more!

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Permanent Store DEVBLOG
2021-11-18

Store changes, Nomad suit and more

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MLRS & desert base update DEVBLOG
2021-11-04

This month's update introduces the Military Desert base monument containing the MLRS missile launcher system!

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Halloween 2021 - Darkness falls
2021-10-28

A darkness is falling upon Rust, monsters are awakening. Enter if you dare.

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Missions & QOL DEVBLOG
2021-10-07

This month's update brings the foundation of the mission system, huge amount of quality of life improvements, a camper vehicle module and much more!

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Community Update 236 COMMUNITY
2021-10-01

Charitable Rust, Skin contest, Dark Horse RP Server, and more!

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September Update DEVBLOG
2021-09-02

Underwater Lab & submarine changes, crawling health reduced, improvements and more!

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Going Deep DEVBLOG
2021-08-05

This month's update brings Procedural Underwater Labs, Submarines, Torpedoes, Fishing, Sharks, Speargun, Updated underwater Ambience and much more!

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Community Update 235 COMMUNITY
2021-07-26

Map contest winners, Reporting tools, Commercials, and more!

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Wounding Update & Voice Props DLC DEVBLOG
2021-07-01

This month's update brings an updated wounding system, Nvidia DLSS, countryside tunnel entrances, monument AI, Voice props DLC, birds, improvements and more!

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Community Update 234 COMMUNITY
2021-06-25

Custom Map Contest, IFTTT Setups, Incoming DLC content, and more!

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Contacts DEVBLOG OUR BREAKDOWN
2021-06-03

This month brings the new contact system, a complete AI rework along with updated animal models and Rust+ IFTTT integration.

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Rust's official development updates and patch notes, linking straight to Facepunch's own post for each one rather than a mirrored copy.

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