1:00pm EST - Our update preview stream is live! twitch.tv/rustafied

12:00am EST - Bunnies, chickens, and eggs will soon engulf every Rust server with the start of Easter. Going live in an update today, the Rust Easter event includes egg hunts, costumes, and more!

This update is expected to hit at the regular time (2pm EST / 7pm GMT) and does not force a wipe. Our update stream will go live at 1pm EST to show off all the Easter goodness you can expect. Also, follow @Rustafied for news throughout the day.

Special Easter items

Along with community created Easter skins, some Facepunch created Easter items are expected to hit the item store (primarily the Chicken Costumes from the looks of it). We’ll have more details on these once the update goes live.

Edit: The Chicken Costume is live on the item store!

Easter Egg Hunts

It wouldn’t be an Easter celebration without some egg hunts! As with previous years, an Easter Egg hunt will begin every in-game day. For 3 minutes, every player on the server will be able to collect as many eggs as they can - with the top 3 winning special eggs as a reward. 

1st Place
3 Silver Eggs

2nd Place
1 Silver Egg

3rd Place
1 Bronze Egg

Getting to the podium isn’t everything though, as eggs collected during each hunt can be upgraded for bigger and better things…

Collectible Eggs

Similar to the presents of the Xmas event or candy bags of Halloween, collectible eggs can be gathered, upgraded, and opened for prizes. Here is a rundown of the different types of eggs and what you can find in each.

Bronze Egg

Stacks to
10

Sample Loot
Egg Basket
Bunny Ears
Stone (100 - 200)
Wood (200 - 400)
Metal frags (20 -50)
3 or 4 Chocolate Bars
Compound bow + 10 arrows

Upgrade to Silver
10

Silver Egg

Stacks to
10

Sample Loot
Bunny Onesie
Stone (2500)
Chainsaw + fuel
Jackhammer
Revolver + ammo
Double Barrel + buckshot
Pump shotgun + buckshot

Upgrade to Gold
10

Gold Egg

Stacks to
10

Sample Loot
5 Incendiary +  3 High Velocity Rockets
MP5A4 + ammo
LR-300 Assault Rifle
M39 Rifle + ammo
Multiple Grenade Launcher
M249 + ammo

Total Egg Cost
1000 Painted Eggs

Egg hunt helpers

There are a couple special Easter items which will help you get on the leaderboard for any egg hunt. First, the Egg Basket, when equipped, allows you to pick up eggs instantaneously with left click (as opposed to having to wait a couple seconds for each pickup, which is the case for any basket-less bunny).

Next are the Bunny Ears, Onesie, Nest Hat, and new this year, the Chicken Costumes. All provide an extended sense, Egg Vision, which allows players to see eggs from farther away during the hunt.

Monument reworks incoming!

Work on monument updates trucks along over on the Aux2 branch. Made available to the public for testing this week, we’re now able to take a look at the Harbor and Oilrig updates.

At the Harbor, you’ll notice a bunch of visual changes and reworks. Along with the aesthetics, there is some fresh functionality in the form of a docking Cargo Ship, operational cargo crane, and even the ability to smuggle yourself on in cargo crates.

When it comes to Oilrig, a new point of ingress is in play. This new moon pool operates like the ones at the underwater labs, allowing people to dive and dock submarines below.

Both of these are still a work in progress, but word on the street is they may make it in for the April update and forced wipe. We’ll have more details on these in our post next week.

Other stuff

The team is working on a bunch of other projects and features. Below is a brief summary of what they are working on. We’ll go into more details on this in the article next week.

• New tool cupboard skin progress

• More work on electricity improvements (smaller items don’t suck juice)

• More on Bradley roaming scientists

• Ping estimates on server listings

• More work on motorbikes

• More minigun work