The most wonderful time of the year!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! 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 varies, but you'll find a mix of resources, weapons, and candy. We've also added wrapping paper allowing you to wrap up items as gifts to other players, perhaps sold in your vending machine...


Once again, you will be able to find Santa...

This month we introduce the Rust Instruments DLC as well as the usual optimizations and improvements and yes, you do have legs!

Instrument Pack DLC

The Instruments DLC pack is now available on Steam for purchase with a 10% launch discount! It includes 10 new instruments with a completely overhauled music input system as well as MIDI support for actual hardware input from compatible devices.

Not sure what all of this is about? The Instrument Pack is our first paid DLC which includes 10 new playable instruments. They all use a completely overhauled music system that allows you to play specific notes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) across multiple octaves. They also support MIDI input, so you can hook up physical instruments as well as a variety of MIDI related software to really unleash your musical abilities.

The pack includes:

• Wheelbarrow Piano (200 Wood, 100 Metal Frags)
• Junkyard Drum Kit (200 Wood, 100 Metal...

Halloween is over, trees are fixed and more optimizations, fixes and improvements.

Tree Mini-Game Improvements
I've made a couple of changes to the marker placement logic that should improve the reliability on all trees across the board, but on trees with really irregular shapes we're now using a new system that pre-caches a series of positions for the marker to go. This new system is in use on Palm, Birch, Oak, Swamp and Beech trees.

Our testing showed that the bug was particularly bad on trees with irregular shapes (ie. not just a vertical cylinder) like the curved palms and swamp trees with the large bases. This was exacerbated by any differences between colliders on the server and the client - clients typically use more accurate mesh colliders while we use simpler capsule colliders on the server.

While I can't say for sure the issue is 100% fixed (there are a lot of trees in Rust) initial indications from the...

Happy Halloween!
A Rust Halloween event is upon us! We've released a patch containing lots of spooky features, including a Trick or Treat event and NPC Mummies. We hope you enjoy the event as much as we did creating it.

We've added horse equipment, Crafting, Inventory, Map and Death screen improvements and various other fixes, balances and improvements ...

Horse Equipment
Horses now have their max health and speed affected by their breed type. There's also a new information panel, which will allow you to equip them with various types of horse equipment.

Horse armor will grant the horse additional protection, as well as protect the rider from incoming damage. This might seem like it isn't very realistic, but it doesn't matter - it feels good in the game. Mounted riders should be something to be feared, not just sitting ducks. It is important to note that the rider protection does not stack with your existing armor, rather it reduces the incoming damage by a percentage, before it is processed by player armour.

Horse shoes will grant additional movement speed to the horse.

Saddle bags can be equipped to increase the size of the horse's...

The new Transport Helicopter arrives along with changes to auto turrets and various other fixes and optimizations

Transport Helicopter

The Scrap Transport Helicopter has arrived!

It's not as nimble as the Minicopter but boy you can fit a lot of people in the back. It doesn't use a traditional vehicle seating model and to board the rear you simply walk on board. You'll have free movement and crouching while it is in flight similar to movement on the cargo ship or Excavator arm.

Merch Store
Our merch store opened last week. I appreciate that a lot of you are nakeds so won't be interested, but we've got hoodies, tshirts, hats, cups.This has been a bit of an experiment for us and it's been a lot of work settling on designs that we've happy with. We've tried to straddle the line between designs that are gamey and designs that you can't really tell are from a game.

Horse Improvements
Horses now use a queue...