12:00am EST - Work trucks forward as we approach the end of the month. Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the week.

Bee Catapult Bomb

Coming soon to a catapult near you: the Bee Catapult Bomb. This spicy new projectile can’t be placed or thrown — it has to be launched from a catapult to activate. Once it lands, it unleashes multiple bee swarms (looks like three per shot), turning any base defense into a buzzing nightmare.

Crafting it takes 3 bee grenades and 200 wood, and it’s available at Workbench Level 1. It’s not live just yet, but all signs point to it arriving with the June update.

Spoiled Fruit and Veg

A fresh spoilage mechanic is being added for various plant-based food items in Rust. This includes black raspberries, blueberries, pumpkins, corn, potatoes, mushrooms, apples, cactus flesh, eggs, and all berries. Once harvested or looted, these items will now have a spoil timer of about 48 real-time hours (or 4 days), after which they’ll turn into a generic “Spoiled Produce” item.

This brings plant spoilage in line with meat spoil mechanics and adds a new layer of food management to your survival strategy. Keep an eye on your perishables or risk losing that harvest to rot.

Naval Update Progress

The team continues to sail forward on the upcoming Naval Update — the next big thing coming to Rust. This week’s progress includes more work on boat buildings, floating cities, and other aquatic additions. If you missed it, this update is all about expanding water-based gameplay with new monuments, boats, and sea-focused content.

There’s still no confirmed launch date, but it’s looking like this one might hit sometime this summer, possibly July or August. As always, I’ll keep you posted as more comes to light.

Floor and Ceiling Wallpapers

Floor and ceiling wallpapers are coming to Rust! This new batch of decorative skins lets you customize your base like never before. Around 20 flooring styles are on the way — including carpet, parquet, tiles, and tatami — along with about 9 ceiling options like wood beams, plaster, and subway tiles.

These can only be placed in enclosed rooms, and yes, triangle foundations are supported too (with rotation options so you can line up patterns properly). This system is backed by a number of fixes and improvements to wallpaper placement and spraycan behavior.

Floor and ceiling wallpapers are expected to launch June 6th as a separate DLC, though some basic styles will be available to all players for free. Whether you're going rustic, modern, or just weird — there’s now a floor for that.

New Menu

Work continues on the upcoming overhaul to the in-game escape menu. First spotted a couple weeks ago, this looks to be a full revamp of the menu system, though we haven’t seen any visuals just yet.

No word on exactly when this will make its way into the game, but we’ll keep an eye out and let you know as more comes to light.

Other stuff

Propane Explosive Bomb no longer requires Explosives to craft. Pure T2 weapon! At the moment it's 1 propane tank, 450 gun powder & 20 low grade on staging
Removed camera roll entirely on the boogie board and inner tube
Fixed player body jittering out of sync with the camera movement when on an inner tube
Command Block added to staging - an admin item that allows you to execute commands via a trigger if you’re an admin
Sound polishing for boomerang and various Jungle things
Allow modular car population to spawn in forest and forestside at the roadside
Fixed missing wood from hobo barrel on deploy
Added small rock formations to jungle biome to allow for more ore nodes
Improvements to beehive UI
Stop showing open fuel storage all the time when mounted on a bike. You need to look down delibrately to get the popup
Increased the stack size of the black raspberry from 1 to 20, to match other berries. Removes item ownership on black raspberry as a result
Remove vines the second a tree gets killed, rather than keeping them hanging around for a few seconds
Fix "Unload Ammo" button not showing after a gun is reloaded if the ammo is in the main inventory while gun is in hotbar
F7 now opens the cheater report panel. Can now switch from report bug to report cheater