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Facepunch's latest maintenance patch reworks how far weapon sounds travel, adds team bag identification, enables volumetric clouds by default, and outlines a roadmap culminating in November's Naval update and December's 12-year anniversary.
Facepunch details Rust Mobile closed beta timing, Twitch Rivals Base Invaders event, Kingdoms 3 drops, new music videos, limited deskmats, and a fresh staging branch wipe ahead of next week's patch.
Facepunch's October force-wipe update introduces a new progression gate via blueprint fragments, shuffles monument loot, reworks crate drops, and gives drones a storage slot. The changes aim to slow early-game snowballing and push players back into monument fights.
Facepunch Studios released a $12.99 Steam DLC bringing five Death Korps of Krieg cosmetic items to Rust, including a hazmat suit, backpack, chainsword, shotgun, and storage barrels.
The AudioTextToSpeech instance now detects input language and generates speech in each player's preferred language by default, though asset-based TTS and several platform languages remain unsupported.
Facepunch forces a global blueprint wipe and slashes tech tree prices to restore early-game progression, while adding storage sorting and a compact fridge for solo players.
New color-coded view modes let creators see streaming state, transcoder status, and level of detail for SLIM-optimized models in both Studio and the live player.
Facepunch Studios breaks its monthly update streak for the first time in 12 years, pushing the massive naval content drop to Feb. 5 while shipping a wipe-only patch Thursday and a content-rich Christmas update on Dec. 18.
Facepunch launches its annual Rustmas event with jingle-bell gift hunts, stockings, an advent calendar, returning store items, Twitch and Kick drops, a Can Be backpack collaboration, and a base-decorating contest running through January 1.
Studio betas add if-local statements and animation graph state machines. BasePart:BindToCollisionSummaries gives precise physics contacts. Text-to-speech auto-translates across 11 languages. IP-based avatar licenses and unified group roles go live.
This week's recap covers a required chat migration deadline, terrain performance gains, new UGC validation tools, a homepage thumbnail mandate, and the platform-wide Halloween event The Hollow.
Server error logs in Creator Hub now include clickable stack traces that open the exact script and line in Studio, plus a new structuredStackTrace API field for custom tooling.