A selection of deployable objects in your base will now leave behind a destroyed version when killed in the softcore game mode, allowing you to repair them to quickly get your base back up and running after a raid.
When destroyed, these objects will drop 50% of their contents, the other 50% will be stored inside and accessible only by the player owners.
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Today at 19:00 UTC, we're issuing a mandatory update - We are rolling out Premium Servers, an experimental way to filter out cheat users and create a better experience for legit players.
To access Premium Servers, your Rust Steam inventory must be valued at $15 or more. This includes items from the Permanent Item Store, such as building skins, décor packs, and hazmat skins, as well as any other tradable Rust items with an attached value. Currently we do not include Rust's standalone DLC such as...
The cooking workbench is a new deployable that allows you to cook up some new food recipes. Mixing table recipes can also be crafted here.
Many of the new items unlocked by the cooking workbench offer stat and modifier bonuses, so give them a taste!
Cooking food now has a visual model on all cooking deployables and cooks in real time.
The early game of Rust can be the most exciting, unfortunately players rush to fully automatic rifles as fast as possible to get an edge over their enemies. What if the early game could last forever....?
The primitive mode brings us to a distant future where the knowledge of high tech items have been lost, leaving the inhabitants of the island only able to make basic items.
The following changes apply to the primitive game mode.
Allowed Weapons
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 2025!
At the end of last year, we celebrated Rust's 11th anniversary, marking an incredible journey. The game continues to experience year-over-year growth, which is quite remarkable for being 11 years old. Rust is now...
We can't believe it either.
It feels like just yesterday that we were celebrating 10 years of Rust, getting emotional over our recap video, but it is true - Rust turns 11 years old on Wednesday the 11th of December!
It's been another incredible year for Rust, with record player numbers, Twitch events, and monthly content updates bringing some of the most significant changes to the world of Rust in the past 11 years.
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