This month’s update brings massive improvements to how you live, build, and fight on water and in The Deep Sea. As well as extended daytime, balances, fixes, and quality of life improvements.
lunar new year 2026
2026’s Lunar New Year celebrations have begun! Celebrate the occasion by honouring the Year of the Horse with the Ornate Horse Mask, Horse Armour, and more.
Naval Update
Ahoy matey! This month, we bring you buildable boats, deep sea, tropical islands, ghost ships, new and improved AI and much, much more! It’s a big one.
Community Update 268
Naval Staging bits, Twitch Drops, a Father Son Duo, Rustmas recaps, sneaky C4, and more!
Surviving 12 Years
Servers are now wiped, Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. In this blog, we recap 2025 and reveal some upcoming changes for 2026.
Silent Night, Violent Night
It’s that wonderful time of the year again – our Christmas event is (s)now live, Rustmas Winter Drop Fest is here!
Getting It Right
We Bit Off More Than We Could Chew
Pivot Or Die
This month we bring you further progression changes, performance improvements, mini fridge, box sorting, RPG skin and much more!
Rust x Warhammer 40,000 PAck
The infamous Death Korps of Krieg march into Rust, bringing their grim, war-forged resolve to the island…
Meta Shift
Meta changes, huge balance changes and performance gains, custom crosshair, drone storage and much more!