Powergrid work continues this week as player maintained monuments get more fleshed out, alongside a fresh round of balance changes, Game Room DLC polish, satellite crash progress, and more work on the upcoming sculpture system.

Player Maintained Monuments and Powergrid

Player maintained monuments continue to take shape, with the developers expanding the idea of players keeping key infrastructure running across the map. Power Plant remains a major focus, with heavy fuses now degrading over time and different powergrid stages unlocking more functionality as players keep the system online.

That progression is also starting to connect into other monuments. Outpost gains additional recyclers tied to the powergrid, Water Treatment continues to get interactive pipes and machinery, and Airfield now links its chinook call terminal to higher power stages. Oil Rig and Gas Station also saw more maintainable-system work as the broader feature continues to come together.

Balance changes

A handful of balance tweaks landed on main this week. AKs once again spawn with 4 rifle bullets in the magazine by default, while the blowpipe received a nice buff with wood dart damage increased from 40 to 50 and its cloth cost reduced from 25 to 10.

The collared shirt and bucket helmet both received protection buffs, with the bucket helmet also getting a cheaper crafting cost. Wolf headdress and lunar mask skins now require a Tier 1 workbench, with the nest egg hat moved to Tier 1 as well. Siege weapons can once again take fire damage as intended, and the boat vendor now sells an actual kayak and paddle rather than blueprints.

Game Room DLC

More Game Room DLC polish landed this week, with the pool table getting pickup and repair support, improved placement guidance, updated models and prefabs, and further work on game reset behavior. Pool cues also received updated first- and third-person models along with new materials and textures.

Darts saw another round of improvements too, including colored darts for each player in multiplayer, better dart clearing between turns, scoring fixes, and additional visual polish. Bar stools also received more model, collider, texture, and prefab work as the DLC continues toward completion.

Satellite crash

The satellite crash event continues to get more fleshed out, with further work on loot, crash effects, controls, and the satellite control computer. Larger satellites can now be tied to larger loot payouts, while several save, UI, and targeting issues were cleaned up.

More art and crash-impact work also landed this week, and the feature continues to be integrated alongside the player maintained monuments systems. Still very much a work in progress, but the event is steadily moving beyond the early prototype stage.

Sculptures

The sculpture system saw a sizable round of polish this week, including a major shader rewrite aimed at improving performance while cleaning up the look of stone sculptures. Edit mode visuals, lighting, camera setup, normals, and sculpting behavior also received several fixes.

The developers also worked through a number of stability and usability issues, including undo and redo problems, editor initialization, accidental sculpting when opening the interface, networking safeguards, and general UI cleanup.

Other stuff

Server saving and network serialization received more performance work, with parallel processing showing large gains in internal testing
The demo UI overhaul continued with timeline improvements, track reordering, undo/redo, Sandbox mode, hierarchy and inspector panels, lighting controls, and export improvements
New navmesh generation was sped up and received another large batch of fixes for AI movement, scientist spawning, map coverage, and generation issues
Fixed grenades sometimes dropping at your feet instead of being thrown
Elevator buttons now work properly after server restarts
Sleeping bags now properly show updated player names
Server console history received several usability fixes
The video player now has volume controls and support for being closed
Nametag distance sizing was improved
Loadout previews can now show main inventory contents
Admin status indicators were cleaned up and consolidated
Admins can swap to a second hotbar with a keybind
Ragdoll-to-ragdoll collision was re-enabled
Loot containers now better respect stack limits and resume refresh timers after server restarts
Rust+ menu and clan notification improvements
Flare and M92 animation refresh work continues
Livestock work continued with calves, sheep, age states, early milking interactions, grazing behavior, and animation tuning
Early industrial crafter support is in progress
Gas Station maintainables received more car lift and backup generator fixes
Demo browser now has a search bar
Shield visibility and melee throwing bugs were fixed
Vine swinging trees are now included in navmesh
Ladder hatches are getting unique UVs for future skinning
Underground train network puzzle prototyping continues
Poncho fur rendering fix