​

This update brings an elevator for easy travel between floors of your base, A real life Rust chair that gives you an exclusive in game chair too, The Spacesuit skin for the Hazmat outfit, changes to roads and added trails as well as the usual balancing and optimisations

Elevator

​

The Elevator is a new deployable object that allows you to easily travel between floors in your base. Simply place an Elevator on the ground floor and then stack additional Elevators on top of that to add floors.

Once you power the Elevator by plugging in a power source at the top of the shaft you can use the Up and Down buttons to move a floor at a time or directly to the top or bottom of the shaft. There is also a power input on each floor that will call the Elevator to that floor if it receives power. To help make this setup easier we've also made the Push Button send a small burst of power when pushed even if there is no power connected to it.

​

Be careful to not get stuck underneath the lift while it's moving as this will instantly kill you.

Desire Trails
One of the main problems with our road network has been that many of the smaller monuments weren't really designed to have road connection points in mind, or would look ridiculous with a massive road going up to them to begin with. As an alternative for those monuments I added smaller dirt trails that suit them a lot nicer than a road ever could.

​

Larger Road Network
The second main problem with our road network was that it would always represent a minimal road network with the least amount of road that would still manage to connect all the monuments. This was simply because the underlying algorithm optimized for the shortest possible road, as path finding algorithms tend to do.

Adding redundant road connections to this that still looked realistic and like something a human would design wasn't exactly trivial since it sort of went against the fundamentals of what the algorithm was designed to achieve. I ended up with a fairly elegant solution that uses force vectors to push secondary road connections away from the monument they originated from, while still connecting to the main road network in a natural looking way once far enough away from their origin.

​

Steam Networking
I've been secretly working on a networking replacement for RakNet. There are many reasons for this, most of which boil down to RakNet no longer being maintained at all and having lots of exploits in it that we had to patch ourselves.

As a solution for this we now support Steam Networking as an opt-in alternative. Server owners can enable Steam Networking by specifying the -swnet server startup parameter. Clients will automatically choose the correct protocol when connecting to servers and we're planning to keep maintaining the RakNet networking protocol for a long time until we're 100% confident Steam Networking is superior in every single way.

We recommend community servers stay on RakNet until we make Steam Networking the default protocol, but if you want to give it an early try feel free to do so. One limitation of Steam Networking is that it does not support the Steam query packet passthrough that we added to RakNet, so servers that use Steam Networking will need to specify a -queryport and make sure that port is open.

Server Demos
Server owners can now record demos from the perspective of any player that is connected to the server:

• demo.record [steamid] start recording a demo of [steamid]
• demo.stop [steamid] stop recording a demo of [steamid]
• demo.splitseconds after how many seconds to split the demo file
• demo.splitmegabytes after how many megabytes to split the demo file
• demo.recordlist a list of Steam IDs that will automatically be recorded whenever they join the server

Demos are written to the "demos" server folder into a subfolder with the Steam ID of the player that is being recorded.

Hammer Pickup Changes
There were a lot of reports of accidental item pickups, especially relating to electrical circuits, This was a massive pain as it would require people to rewrite entire setups. To combat this, you'll now have to press and hold your use button for a short duration to pick up objects instead of a single frame press. The downside of this change is that the sleeping bag now requires a hammer to be picked up. We may revisit this in the future.

​

Tea Buffs Buffed
Over the course of the month we've noticed a numbers teas were been neglected and thus I have made the following changes:

• Healing Tea - Advanced and Pure versions now provide a small amount of instant health, As well as greater healing over time
• Wood Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
• Scrap Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
• Max Health Tea - Duration increased to 20mins.

We'll be keeping an eye on these changes and adjusting accordingly. We believe these changes will drastically increase the usefulness of the more refined versions of teas.

We've also updated the tea icons to make it easier to differentiate between teas as well as their tier.

​

Vendor Changes

​

We've taken steps to address the over the top cloth farming. Here's how it works.

NPC vendors now refill their stock slowly instead of having an infinite amount always available. This means you can no longer take 5000 cloth to a vendor to sell it for scrap. You can sell some, but then you'll have to wait. Selling cloth and other farmed items for scrap was never intended to be the go-to method of progressing in the game so this change needed to happen.

It's important to note that the rate of replenishment will likely only affect the abuse of the cloth trade at the Produce Exchange, all other items fully replenish their stock much quicker.

Extremely large farms were poor for client and server performance, and we don't think players should get endless amounts of scrap and in turn resources for sitting in their base. Players will still be able to farm and sell cloth and other produce but at much lower volume. Hopefully this switches the farming demographic more towards low/medium tier players or those less PvP savvy. Maybe now people will farm berries and sell Pure Teas for a profit? Just an idea.

Map Refresh
This is a small but long overdue change to the ingame map. From now on map colors should be more faithful to the actual terrain and, we hope, easier to read while providing a more realistic look.

​

Secretlab Chair
We've teamed up with the folks at Secretlab and are excited to announce the Secretlab Rust Edition chair!

Now available for the Secretlab OMEGA and TITAN, the Secretlab Rust Edition is outfitted with all the features of the award-winning Secretlab 2020 Series. The chair comes bundled with an exclusive in-game Secretlab chair skin, only obtainable by purchasing the official seat.

Cobalt Space Suit



The urgency of what would later be known as Project Nova required Cobalt to bypass the design phase of an EVA suit - something that would normally take years when they had weeks. Using early Soviet designs (acquired by costly industrial espionage), Cobalt managed to produce a limited number of protective space suits. The whereabouts of most of them are unknown, but some were retained for terrestrial applications, given their radiation protection properties.

Список изменений:

• New deployable Elevator
• Added Steam Networking (requires server to be launched with -swnet and -queryport)
• Added server demo recording
• Added desire trails to small monuments
• Added additional side road connections to monuments (larger overall road network)
• Fixed recycling stacks yield fewer resources than individuals
• Fixed cargo ship lights not turning off during the day
• Fixed invisible barrier across airfield rear door
• Fixed glitchy interior door at airfield
• Fixed not being able to place water items (boogie boards, tubes) after the servers water level was changed
• Fixed search text appearing on crafting UI incorrectly
• Fixed barrel gibs appearing in the wrong colour
• Fixed not being able to download some textures from the Workshop Submission UI
• Fixed vehicle parenting exploit
• Fixed projectile velocity change exploit
• Fixed projectile penetration exploit
• Fixed several RPC exploits and DOS attack vectors
• Fixed roof conditional model flyhack false positive
• Fixed spawning on beach too close to fishing village
• Fixed fishing villages sometimes spawning on islands
• Fixed that the first monument that was placed (usually a harbor) would nearly never be connected to the road network
• Fixed ORSwitch sparks
• Fixed Sphere/Dome monument barrel spawners inside each other
• Fixed allowing deployment through reinforced glass window
• Fixed placing furnace on construction when placed at max-height
• Fixed green card respawn at swamp_c
• Fixed inside terrain antihack false positives at the water treatment plant (instant death spots)
• Fixed unable to plant next to sapling or higher stage berry bush in a planter
• Fixed engine stats not appearing when inspecting an engine on a car
• Fixed some inconsistency shooting through glass (one way)
• Fixed Autoturret targeting shotgun trap
• Fixed windmill not rotating to the wind direction
• Fixed Unable to break down multiple Steam items in inventory
• Fixed the point of interest and death map markers using the center of the image as the origin, should have been bottom center
• Fixed being unable to power storage monitors directly from batteries
• Fixed minicopter being able to penetrate windows
• Player collider now resizes correctly versus projectiles like rockets when the player is crouched or lying down (wounded, sleeping)
• No longer showing "1ft" on wire or hose items, since they're unlimited
• Boats now decay at an increased rate when in deep water
• Kayaks will now be slightly slower when when two players are paddling (still faster than just one paddler)
• Disabled mip maps on terrain splat maps so they look less awful in the distance and on low graphics qualities
• Disabled mip maps on terrain normal map to preserve terrain detail in the distance
• Power lines can end at ring road (massively speeds up power line layout generation on large maps)
• Allow 1 out of the 4 corners of a monument to slightly reach into a neighboring tier when finding spawn locations for them
• Berry Bushes can now be cloned at earlier growth stages
• Reduced building block around swamp_c
• Reduced range of bandit sentry turret (Fishing Villages)
• Reactive target now requires a hammer to pickup
• Tweaked Powerplant radiation volumes, no longer result in high levels of radiation moving around the sides
• Updated some old and incorrect/out dated item descriptions
• Reduced chance of finding T1 car parts at road and water junkpiles
• Moved garage door lock position higher
• Push Button now sends a small burst of electricity when pushed even with no input
• Refreshed player map color scheme
• Update scope overlays to scale the color with the time of day (so no more bright scope at night)
• Added server.censorplayerlist (default false) to streamer mode the player list returned by A2S_PLAYER server queries (will not apply to already connected players so set it at startup)
• Added world.rendermap to render a high res PNG of the map
• Updated tea icons
• Healing Tea - Advanced and Pure versions now provide a small amount of instant health, As well as greater healing over time
• Wood Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
• Scrap Tea - Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +200%.
• Max Health Tea - Duration increased to 20mins.
• NPC vendors now refill their stock slowly instead of having an infinite amount always available
• Improved picking up deployables by holding E with a hammer equipped