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Halloween 2026
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…
Livestock Update
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 G…
Breach and Clear
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…
Power Trip
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 ba…
Common Ground
This month's update features a New Monument: The Apartment Complex, Rentable Shops, a New Clan System & Table, plus QoL changes and much more!
Built Different
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 Q…
Upgrade hard, raid harder
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,…
Spring Clean
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…
Shipshape
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…
lunar new year 2026
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.
Naval Update
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.
Community Update 268
Naval Staging bits, Twitch Drops, a Father Son Duo, Rustmas recaps, sneaky C4, and more!
Surviving 12 Years
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 chan…
Silent Night, Violent Night
It's that wonderful time of the year again - our Christmas event is (s)now live, Rustmas Winter Drop Fest is here!
Getting It Right
We Bit Off More Than We Could Chew
Pivot Or Die
This month we bring you further progression changes, performance improvements, mini fridge, box sorting, RPG skin and much more!
Rust x Warhammer 40,000 Pack
The infamous Death Korps of Krieg march into Rust, bringing their grim, war-forged resolve to the island...
Meta Shift
Meta changes, huge balance changes and performance gains, custom crosshair, drone storage and much more!
COMMUNITY UPDATE 267
Music Videos, Rust Mobile, Twitch Drops, Epic Desk Mats, and more!
Maintenance
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!