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Livestock, Honey Bandages, and more!
This week brings a healthy mix of new features, ongoing projects, and behind-the-scenes improvements as the developers push deeper into seve
Aug 20, 2026
Hotfixes, train stations, and Scrap King
Following last week’s massive Power Trip Update, the developers have spent much of the week cleaning up issues, adjusting some of the new mo
Aug 13, 2026
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
Aug 6, 2026
Power Trip Update
1:50pm EST - The client update hit and devblog is live! 1:00pm EST - Our update stream is live! twitch.tv/rustafied12:00am EST - The Power T
Aug 6, 2026
Update landing next week!
The developers are focused almost entirely on upcoming content this week. The Game Room DLC received a large polish pass, more working syste
Jul 30, 2026
Powergrid fuses, balance tweaks, and Game Room polish
Powergrid work continues this week as player maintained monuments get more fleshed out, alongside a fresh round of balance changes, Game Roo
Jul 23, 2026
Player maintained monuments, Game Room, and more
As we move further into July, the developers continue making steady progress on several major features still in development. This week bring
Jul 16, 2026
Satellites, livestock, and post-update fixes
Following last week’s update, the developers have rolled out several hotfixes along with a fresh batch of work on upcoming features. This we
Jul 9, 2026
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 mor
Jul 2, 2026
Common Ground Update!
1:45pm EST - The update is live! Devblog also hit! Game on!1:00pm EST - Our update stream is live! twitch.tv/rustafied12:00am EST - This mon
Jul 2, 2026
Apartment Complex first looks
The Apartment Complex has arrived on staging, giving players their first real look at Rust’s upcoming rentable monument. Along with that, So
Jun 25, 2026
Apartments, Satellites, and more
Work continues on several upcoming Rust features this week, with the new apartment complex monument, satellite crash event, and player maint
Jun 18, 2026
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 M1
Jun 4, 2026
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
May 7, 2026
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,
Apr 2, 2026
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,
Mar 5, 2026
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 A
Feb 17, 2026
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
Feb 5, 2026
Community Update 268
Naval Staging bits, Twitch Drops, a Father Son Duo, Rustmas recaps, sneaky C4, and more!
Jan 22, 2026
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
Jan 1, 2026