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PatchBot BOT 1 week ago

Surviving 12 Years

12 YEARS Servers are now wiped and Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, but we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off, which is why this blog is lighter than usual, but we're looking forward to the journey ahead in 2026! Last month, we celebrated Rust's 12th anniversary, marking an incredible journey. The game continues to experience year-over-year growth, which is quite remarkable for being 12 years old. Rust is now bigger than...

PatchBot BOT 2 months ago

Pivot Or Die

PROGRESSION CHANGES Continuing from last month’s controversial Meta Shift changes and our push to make meaningful experimental changes to Rust’s progression, this month we’re taking things a step further. By making progression easier! Wait, what? Bear with me. ...

PatchBot BOT 3 months ago

Meta Shift

BLUEPRINT FRAGMENTS The current progression meta has grown stale, moving too fast and becoming too easy over the years, with scrap inflation and scrap being everywhere. We don't believe this has been overwhelmingly negative, but it has detracted from world PvP, especially in and around monuments, and we want to experiment more with progression. This is experimental step 1: ...

PatchBot BOT 4 months ago

Maintenance

This month’s update is a little lighter than recent, focused on tackling a number of long-standing bugs and improvements. We’ve been working through community feedback to smooth out some of the more persistent issues and make everyday gameplay feel that bit better. Normally, if bugs persist for several years, there’s usually a good reason for that, whether it’s being difficult to reproduce or requiring a lot of work to resolve. ...

PatchBot BOT 5 months ago

Harder Core

HARDCORE REFRESH Hardcore mode is making a comeback this month, bringing with it some community requested changes and a few new tweaks we've been planning for a while. Our goal with game modes, such as Primitive and Hardcore, is to offer a fresh way to experience Rust, see how players respond, and try out different ideas. We don’t expect them to stay popular for long, usually just a couple of months. They’re not a major development focus or time sink, as most of the team is working on bigger...

PatchBot BOT 6 months ago

Friends With Benefits

RUST 2025: MID-YEAR RECAP & SNEAK PEEK

PARTY SYSTEM

As part of one of our long term goals of reducing friction for new players, we bring the party system to make it easier to connect to a server as your friends! To invite friends to a party:

Open the friends menu (bottom right of the main menu)
- Right click on a friend
- Click "Invite To Party" ...

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