12:00am EST - It’s a fresh month for Rust development and the team is working on hotfixes, the next big update, and a fresh hackweek is also afoot!

Hot fixes

As is usual after an update, several hotfixes were released in the days that followed. Here are the details of some of the fixes:

Fixed construction guide overlay weirdness
Improved travelling vendor spawn
Fix camera jumping excessively when deploying jungle ak
Updated In-game Jungle Store
Fixed radiation dart feathers clipping through the hand
Fix storage monitor not being able to be placed on the Vending Machine
Fixed computer station offsett player sitting position
Fixed Client Demo recording is throwing NotSupportedException
Exploit fixes
IsFullyADS NRE fix
Fixed crocs dying at the Jungle pond (kinda)
Several high-priority exploit fixes
Fixed boomerang occasionally causing an NRE when attempting to create its world model. Happens if the entity was just destroyed recently
Fix modded and hapis vending machines only allowing one user to interact with them at a time
Exploit fixes

Hack week

Another Hackweek is underway! If you’re unfamiliar, Hackweek is when the developers take a break from their usual tasks and work on any project they’re passionate about — often leading to fun, experimental features. While not everything from Hackweek makes it into the game, it’s been the origin of some awesome additions in the past. Here is what we’re seeing being worked on so far:

Wire snapping - snapping ability for wire placement
Drawbridge - no details yet, but you can use your imagination
Rotating platform - Added a rotating platform you can deploy items on, rotates 180 degrees when powered
Confusion dart - Reverses movement controls and swaps jump / crouch
Automated testing - looks to be a testing suite to automatically and quickly test various functionalities of the game (helps with QA and stability)

Naval update

The next big thing on the horizon looks to be the Naval Update. While details are still pretty limited, we’re seeing signs of some major water-based content in the works. So far, the developers are working on things like a boat building, RHIB scientists, a new ship called the Trawler, and even a floating city monument. No word yet on when it’ll go live, but we’ll keep an eye out and let you know as soon as more info surfaces.

Other stuff

Modular cars and push bikes now spawn in jungle biome
Fixes to small box placement
Adding more detailed colliders for small rock formations
Some fixes for the jungle building skin
Fixed detection not working when deployed on foundations and frames
More work on improvements to lighting in monuments
Fixes to the cargo ship model
Fixes to various blood FX
Work on foliage instancing (performance optimizations)
Tweaks to climate values
Vending machines can only have one user at a time
Work on improvements to clouds