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MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
From everyone at Facepunch, we'd all like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!

Rust and its DLC packs are currently on sale till the end of January with up to 50% off.

The Christmas Event is once again live! If you haven't been around for this before, here's what you can expect:

Every once in a while you will hear the sound of jingle bells. Run outside and look for a gift! Two gifts are spawned per player, in a radius of about 40m from where you are standing. Run up and bash it open to receive your Christmas presents. They come in three sizes: small, medium, and large. If you have enough small presents stashed, you can "trade up" to a medium or large. The contents of each present vary, but you'll find a mix of resources, weapons, and candy.



Once again, you will be able to find Santa hats and reindee... Read more

RUST 10TH ANNIVERSARY


This month marks Rust's 10th birthday. We’ll celebrate from today till the 16th of December with in-game birthday cake, hats, throwbacks and some new items.

Rust has undergone significant evolution since its launch in 2013. It initially began within the Unity Engine 4, playable in a web browser. Later, a standalone version launched on Steam early access, the beginning of which is now known to most as Rust Legacy. With rocky foundations, a complete overhaul was done to what we have today, known as Rust reboot, or just Rust nowadays.

Over the past ten years, Rust has sold over 16 million copies (not counting console).

Rust Legacy 2013


Rust exceeded everyo... Read more

STEAM AWARDS
Rust's 10th Anniversary is coming up and we would love nothing more than for all you loyal Rust players to nominate for us in the Steam Awards - Labor of Love!



In the last 10 years, the game has undergone some huge changes, including graphic, physics, and engine updates and rebuilds, all because we’ve wanted to make Rust what it is, and what it could be.
But what has really blown us away is the great milestones that have been achieved within the community such as:

• Regularly being in Steam’s top 10 most played games
  
• 350+ content updates
  
• 16,000,000+ copies sold.
  
• $1,703,923+...

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ABOVE AND BELOW RAIL LINKING


This month we are finally connecting the above-ground rail network with the underground. While playing on servers with a world size of at least 4250, you will find one or two rail tunnels allowing you to seamlessly travel between the underground and above-ground networks.

To do it, simply take a train inside one of the tunnels, drive it down a short slope and you will be inside the underground network. All wagon types are fully compatible with both networks regardless of their length allowing for new gameplay opportunities.

To top it off, we also made some visual tweaks to the network that fix light leaking issues in small areas like the stairwells, as well as made some other minor tweaks and fixes.




UNDERGROUND TRAIN SIGNALS
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SPOOKY SCENES
Rust daVinci blessed us with a walkthrough of their Halloween town on the Method Games RP server[methodgames.github.io]. Village will be up till Nov. 2nd if anyone wants to check it out!




BREAST CANCER CHARITY
October 27th-29th Some of our most badass babes in Rust are getting together to do a ... Read more

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
The Halloween events are now enabled! Once roughly every two in-game days, a candy hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many candies as you can. The top 3 players are given special loot bags as a reward. These candies and loot bags can be opened for various types of loot ranging from scrap all the way up to an M249!

If you don't make the podium, that's okay. The candies you collect can be upgraded for better loot.



There are various items available to help you during your hunt. The Pumpkin Bucket will allow instant pickup of candies and the Scarecrow Wrap and Ghost Costume will provide you with an advantage via Candy Vision.



The Halloween event will run until November 2nd.

Have fun!


GRHRRR..
What to do with all ... Read more

TURRET INTERFACING
A common complaint we have been hearing for a very long time as the over-use and abuse of turrets. To combat this we've added "Turret Interference" Basically this means that only a certain amount of turrets (sentry.maxinterference) can be active in any particular area ( sentry.interferenceradius). subsequently activated turrets will emit a blue electrical glow and fail to acquire any targets.



There is no hard limit on the number of turrets you can deploy, only a limit on the number of turrets to be activated at any one time within 40m. For example, you may choose to enable 12 of your outdoor turrets but keep your indoor turrets disabled or you can set up smart circuits to detect players and power up turrets when needed.

Hopefully this addresses some of the concerns we've been hearing regarding this issue, and we plan to iterate and improve, we'll be watchin... Read more

CHARITABLE RUST 2023 - WATER


Twitch Drops! October 12th - October 19th
Watch your favorite streamers and earn Twitch drops all week.

Make sure to get synced! https://twitch.facepunch.com/


Main Event! October 14th & 15th
Tune into the official Rustafied channel[www.twitch.tv] for the main event filled with mini games, art contests, talent shows, and more!

Special Charity Store Items All week we will have unique charitable items u... Read more

ATTACK HELICOPTER


The Attack Helicopter is now available to purchase from the Air Wolf store at Bandit Camp for 2250 scrap.

Gunner The main special feature of this helicopter is the gunner seat. On the front is a turret similar to the deployable autoturret, where you can equip a gun and ammo. At the side pods, rockets can be loaded in - HV and incendiary type only.

The gunner can then aim and shoot both of these while a pilot flies the heli. Simply interact with the gunner monitor and start blasting! Fire1 will shoot the turret and Fire2 launches rockets.



If the gunner has flares ready in his... Read more

TWITCH DROPS[rust.facepunch.com]
Save The date! September 7th-14th we will be having a Twitch Drops event featuring some of your favorite creators.

[twitch.facepunch.com]

More details on this coming soon, watch our socials in the upcoming weeks!

Be sure to get synced at https://twitch.facepunch.com/connect so you can successfully claim your drops.


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WOUNDED INFORMATION
I've changed the wounded UI so that it now displays additional information relating to your wounded status. It will now tell you the probability of recovery as well as how many seconds are left until recovery/death.



Remember: Maintaining full water and food will grant you a higher probability of recovery, and a large medkit in your belt will grant 100% chance of recovery.


CHAT EMOJI


Chat Emoji is a new feature this month that allows you to express yourself in some new ways. You can access the new list of emoji’s via the emoji button on the right of the chat. From there you can search for a specific emoji as well as change the current selected skin tone for all of your emoji’s. You can also type a : into the regular chat box and start typing to get an autocomplete that you c... Read more

RUSTOPIA INVITATIONAL
July 29th-30th
[rustopia.events]

Rustopia Invitational Tournament[rustopia.events] is this weekend and they boosting up the Project Hope[www.projecthope.org] charity!
Project Hope is expanding access to mental health care for health workers, refugees, new mothers, and communities around the world.

Cat... Read more

RUST IS ON SALE![rust.facepunch.com]
From now until July 13th Rust and other Facepunch titles are on sale!

Just in time for our new Abyss content being released on the 6th. wink wink

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SLEEPING BAG LIMITS[rust.facepunch.com]


This month we’ve decided to limit the maximum number of respawn options to 15 per player. This is a big change and not one we make lightly, so we thought it would be a good idea to explain our thinking.

While this is an inconvenience to certain playstyles, we believe adapting to this change will lead to a healthier and more interesting game. Back in October 2020[rust.facepunch.com] we revised the death screen, unintentionally making it trivial to manage a large number of bags. ... Read more

CREATOR PROGRAM[rust.facepunch.com]
Earlier this week we launched our Facepunch Creator Program in efforts to collab with our creators more.

This program is a work in progress and mostly lives in a special private discord where we can all bounce ideas off each other and work together.

[facepunch.com]

Currently applications are only open for Rust but we will explore options for some of our other titles in the future.

For more information on eligibility and the application process you can check out our creat... Read more

Twitch Rivals Rust III[schedule.twitchrivals.com]
May 16th-20th

• Twitch Drops
  
• 8 Teams
  
• 160 Creators
  
• 100k Prize Pool
  
• Custom Map
  
• In-Game Challenges

Last Team Standing wins!

Tune into the event, live on Twitch, starting at 11:00 AM PDT!

Please be aware of scams!
Facepunch will never contact you about unique drops or special giveaways. Our official drops URL will always be: http... Read more

NUCLEAR MISSILE SILO[rust.facepunch.com]
This month we bring you an all-new monument that we have been quietly working on for the past few months, the Nuclear Missile Silo.

While exploring the map you will run across a small military base that will be marked from the distance by a tall radio tower. While unremarkable from the outside, the base hides a secret. In its center you will find a large hatch that will allow you to access a large underground network of tunnels.



Jump in while the hatch is open and you will find yourself inside a deep underground... Read more

TWITCH DROPS[rust.facepunch.com]
SAVE THE DATE! May 16th-20th!

[twitch.facepunch.com]

Make sure you are synced at https://twitch.facepunch.com/ to get your skins once they're live!

More details to follow on our ... Read more

MAP MARKERS[rust.facepunch.com]
Map markers have received an upgrade this month, with the maximum amount of markers increasing to 5 and a new set of controls to help you store useful information along with your map.



Placing more markers is as simple as using the RMB as normal, and markers are deleted in the same way. If you have reached the maximum number of markers (5 by default) you will need to delete another marker to make room.

To edit a marker simply click on it with the LMB and use the controls that pop up. You can select from multiple colour and icons as well as adding a label. Note that the label will be slimmed down to three characters when displayed on the compass.

If you are the l... Read more

DRONE[rust.facepunch.com]
The Drone is a new player-controlled craftable deployable, operated from the Computer Station. Easily damaged from impacts. Can be picked up and deployed just about anywhere - but it doesn't have the best signal, so you'll need to control it using nearby Computer Station.




The Drone can be unlocked from the tier 2 workbench tech tree.


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