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.

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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 creators site!

https://facepunch.com/creators



This parody by LamSlide is for all you Simon & Garfunkel enjoyers!


It will also get stuck in your head.



We absolutely love our dedicated players. Where your loyalty is measured in hours played.

LemonadeNS has taken his dedication to a whole new level! This tattoo is wonderfully done!






If you like fishing, music, fireworks, parties, and ... Read more

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!


Facepunch will never contact you about unique drops or special giveaways. Our official drops URL will always be: https://twitch.facepunch.com/


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Rust is also on sale until May 23rd!

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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 missile silo that hosts a massive ICMB. Remember that while you're in you can't go back easily, so be prepared before you enter.



As you explore, you will find various rooms filled with loot and a new dangerous type of Scientists who will shoot anyone trying to interfere with their experiments. Fight your way through and take the elevators to the bottom of the structure and you will find a nuclear warhead connected to a laptop displaying an ... Read more

May 16th-20th!

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

More details to follow on our socials.



Staging Aux02 branch is now available for public testing for the upcoming Nuclear Missile Silo (NMS) monument.



This is early testing, you'll encounter bugs and missing gameplay features. Please report any issues using F7.

You can get to this branch of the beta by making sure you have the Rust - Staging Branch downloaded in your Steam Library.



From there you can right-click Rust - Staging Branch >> betas tab >> use the dropdown to select aux02 - upandcoming



Your game files will reallocate and you'll download the testing branch.

Have fun!




This thing deserved its own section. Ok_Marsupial6435 has created a life size airsoft autoturret!





Seems it's a work in progress.

"It will feature 2... Read more

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 leader of a team all of your teammates will see all of your markers, as well as their own.





Pings are a new system to help you more effectively communicate to your teammates when using reconnaissance tools like cameras, drones and the binoculars.

While using any of those items (a... Read more

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.



C4 can now be remotely detonated via RF.

Select the item and click enable RF, then set a frequency. An RF Broadcaster or detonator can then be set to the same frequency and as soon as the C4 detects the signal, BOOM. Please note that C4 deployed outside of your building privilege zone will decay after 24 hours. Also, anyone can pick it up (with a 5 second delay) so keep a look out when using it during raids. Use it to set traps in your own base or for controlled demolition of someone else's. There has never been a better time to bankrupt a clan!





A new player-cra... Read more

Bring new levels of efficiency and unlock new avenues for automation with this month's set of Industrial entities. With these new tools you can move items around your base as well as craft items automatically without you needing to lift a finger.

The Storage Adaptor is the starting point for most of your Industrial plans - simply attach an adaptor to an existing storage entity to make that entity compatible with your Industrial systems. The adaptor does not require power.



Some entities have more than one slot that a storage adaptor can be attached to for ease of placement. Typically the storage adaptor can use all inventory slots on it's attached storage for input/output, although there are some exceptions:

• When attached to a furnace the Input will insert items into the Fuel/Inputs item slots while the output will remove items from the output slots
  
• When attached to a locker the storage adaptor will only access one partition, to access all part...

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Join us! Starting Sunday January 15th at 1PM PST / 9PM GMT for the next Trust in Rust Charity[trustinrust.co] tournament!

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hJune[www.twitch.tv] and Rustoria[rustoria.co] teamed up to raise money for YouAreRAD[youarerad.org].

They're a mental health and counseling charity that gives back to the community. With the funds raised from the event RAD provides FREE therapy sessions to the Rust community in return. Tune into the event to find out how to take advantage of this offer and get signed up!

There will be amazing charity and event-specific item skins on the store this week only. They are exclusive & non-tradable as the proceeds go to RAD.

Starting January 15th 1PM PST / 9PM GMT Twitch drops will begin!

• 4 Exclusive drops from hJune's Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv]
  
• 4 general drops you can get by watching any creator participating in the event

These drops go all week as well. Ends January 22. Get yo... Read more

Servers are now wiped, Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, 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, we're looking forward to the journey ahead in 2023!

Later this year will celebrate Rust's 10th Birthday, which has been an incredible journey. We have some big plans to finish out the year, we'll share details in the coming months.

In this blog, we'll look back at 2022, some of Rust's achievements, and give a sneak peek at what to expect from us in 2023.

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Visit https://rust.facepunch.com/2022 to see the full recap.



What can you expect from us in 2023? More of the same! Guaranteed monthly updates every first Thursday of the month, along with occasional hotfixes and holiday events.


In February, we'll release the industrial update, which includes the electric furnace, i... Read more

From everyone at Facepunch, we'd all like to wish you a 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 vary, but you'll find a mix of resources, weapons, and candy.



Once again, you will be able to find Santa hats and reindeer antlers, both of which can be worn and provide a decent amount of protection. There’s also a lickable candy cane club, and two types of stockings. If you hang a stocking inside your base when the jing... Read more

Rust turns 9 this month, that's 9 years of weekly and monthly updates. We’ll celebrate for one day only on 11th December with in-game birthday cake and hats.



In the January end of years blog, we'll talk more about how 2022 has gone, what we've achieved and what we learned as well as our upcoming plans.



Car keys have been removed from the game and replaced with code locks, which should be a lot more useful. These can be added at a vehicle lift in the same way key locks were added, and for the same price (75 metal fragments).



Features:

• Add, change, or remove code locks from a car at any vehicle lift.
  
• Code locks prevent mounting the vehicle - except for taxi modules - and also prevent access to storage. Players in a taxi module cannot swap seats to any other type of module.
  
• To capture a car with code locks, you can reduce the health of a seating module to 20% or less, which will enable an option to break the lock...

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Charitable Rust[www.charitablerust.com] is in just a few days!

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There will be 48 hours of exclusive drops on the Rustafied[www.twitch.tv] channel along with all of the creator/special guest channels participating in the event.

The generic drops can be obtained from any channel streaming Rust[www.twitch.tv] that has drops enabled. These drops go for the entire week!

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Don't forget to get your accounts synced at https://twitch.facepunch.com/ to ensure you can claim your drops!

We will have an array of Charity skins on the item store for sale as well, starting Thursday the 17th. These will be account-bound (cannot trade or sell them) as the proceeds from them go to World Central Kitchen[wck.org].



Rust is going to be celebrating our 9th Birthday on December 11th, 2022!



There will be an active server event enabled for the day. You spawn with cake and p... Read more

Arms manufacturers contracted by Cobalt were tasked with producing a new side arm to meet the personal defense requirements of the organization. After an exhaustive review of potential candidates, the Prototype 17 was selected. This new weapon has a magazine capacity of 18 and fires in deadly 3 round bursts with the single pull of the trigger.



In addition, it features tritium sights for rapid target acquisition and engagement under low light conditions. It has been noted that some survivors have scavenged and reverse engineered the weapon, extracting some of its components and allowing them to augment their own weapons with the 3 round burst ability.






We've added a new train carriage that you might find on sidings.



Inside you'll find a poker table with four seats, two slot machines, and a brand new blackjack computer that can handle 1-3 players.



All the features of blackjack are here, and blackjack pays out 3:2. The computer hates ... Read more

Now through November 2nd Rust is on sale at 33% off across the board!



This includes all the DLC's and the Soundtrack!



Just dropping in another reminder that Charitable Rust[www.charitablerust.com] is next month!

Every year Rustafied[www.rustafied.com] hosts a giant charity event. They have servers dedicated to mini games, live streams, Twitch drops, giveaways, and more!

We will also be listing some exclusive skins on the Rust Item Store where the proceeds of these items will go to World Central Kitchen[wck.org].

[www.charitablerust.com]

There will be some exclusive drops for 2 days and some generic drops for the whole week.

Make sure you get synced up at https://twitch.facepunch.com/connect#account to get and claim your drops when the event starts!

If you are a content creator/live streamer and you want to participate in the event you can sign up here[www.charitablerust.com].

Full details to follow when we get closer ... Read more

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 3rd.

Have fun!



Cultists are said to have been opening portals throughout the world, others believe it's a Cobalt experiment code-named R.U.I.N gone horribly wrong. Not much is known about these portals or what they do, only a few chads have ent... Read more

This month we're introducing a new addition to Rust's permanent store, the Lumberjack Pack. The Lumberjack Pack contains five items, four tools and one hazmat reskin.


The Lumberjack suit is a hazmat replacement skin that can be applied while crafting the hazmat or skinned using the repair table. The Lumberjack suit offers no in-game bonuses.





The Lumberjack additionally comes with four craftable tools. The concrete tools are reskinned versions of the stone tools, and the prototype tools share the same stats as the metal tools.





The Lumberjack pack is available now from the Steam store and in-game store.



Following feedback from last month's Furnace UI revamp, I made the following changes:

• All slots now cook at the same time.
  
• Added progress bar when smelting items
  
• New burning icon for items

I also fixed a number of issues relating to ores dropping out of furnaces when overfilling.

Splitting ores... Read more

Charitable Rust[www.charitablerust.com] is back!


For 2 days Rustafied[www.rustafied.com] will be hosting a charity event to raise money for World Central Kitchen[wck.org]. WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises all over the globe.

[www.charitablerust.com]

To kick things off we're starting with the skin contest. These very limited skins will be part of the Twitch drops[twitch.facepunch.com] & Item store purchases surrounding the event.

If you are a skin creator and want to have a shot at getting your work into the game, this contest is for you! All proceeds go towards charity!

• Use #CR2022 as official contest tag in workshop.
  
• No re-uploading old or previously submitted skins.
  
• Do not steal or use any copyrighted or otherwise trademarked content.
  
• Must be 100% original work (can work with others if all are listed on workshop page).
  
• Mu...

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A major part of Rust is its brutal nature and ruthless PvP, when we added the softcore gamemode last year we saw and have continued to see feedback that many of you want a game mode which takes away the standard Vanilla comforts we've added throughout the years and gives a more ruthless, hardcore experience, so we've done just that.

Introducing Hardcore mode - a new game mode in Rust aimed towards veteran players, gone are the comforts such as safezones, team system and maps but don't worry, the vast majority of our servers will still be regular vanilla Rust.



During this first pass, you will find the following changes on Hardcore servers:

Added:

• Local chat (100m range)
  
• Limit of 5 sleeping bags & beds
  
• In-game changelog (top left of inventory)

Removed:

• Contact system
  
• Compass
  
• Crawling when wounded
  
• Global chat
  
• Rust+
  
• Team system
  
• Map
  
• MLRS
  
• Safe zones

Changed:

• Blueprints wipe monthly

We believe this is a good starting place for a less forgiving game mode of Rus... Read more

Settle in, we've got a lot to cover.

Rust x Twitch Rivals 2 was a huge success! First we'll cover some of the Twitch stats surrounding the event.

Aug - 9th - Aug 13 (Rust Twitch Category)[www.twitch.tv]

• 386,889 peak concurrent viewers
  
• 7,500,319 chat messages sent
  
• 20,062,838 total hours watched
  
• 50,950,310 total views
  
• 2,499,030 clip views
  
• 19,037 Unique broadcasters

Item Skin Drops[twitch.facepunch.com]

• Drops earned: 2,997,340
  
• Drops claimed: 2,428,533

This is only our second event and we feel it was much better than the first. With time we'll perfect it and turn it into one of the best events on Twitch!

Full list of player awards, stats, and top 5 Twitch clips can be found here[rust.facepunch.com].




Been a while since we've seen a raid cam! Ser Winter brought us a massive one from one of the Reddit servers. Let him know if you want to see more!





This month we have Albin! Somehow he got the most kills AND the most deaths in the recent Rival's event. This... Read more

The above-ground rail network is now connected up to the Trainyard area, and the Trainyard has a new tower that can unload certain types of train wagons.

Railway sidings will now sometimes spawn unloadable wagons in several varieties

• Ore wagons filled with sulfur, iron, or charcoal
  
• Fuel tank wagons filled with low grade fuel
  
• Loot wagons that can be unloaded to reveal loot crates

All of these can be hooked up to a train and taken to the unloading tower at Trainyard for unloading. You'll need a green keycard and a fuse to get full access, after which you can unload as many wagons as you like. Ore and fuel go into an output hopper and fuel tank respectively inside the tower. Loot wagons activate their crates when emptied so you can then go out and loot them.

The above-ground Work Cart train engine has been reduced in power, and is now only able to pull a small amount of train cars at a time. The large new Locomotive provides superior pulling power... Read more