Facepunch is cooking up some wild changes, and no, we’re not talking about just inflatable horses or venomous blowdarts—though, those are in too. Here’s your full breakdown of everything happening this week in the world of Rust.
🧠 Softcore Mode Gets a Huge Overhaul
Key Changes:
- Deployables drop 50% of contents when destroyed and leave a corpse.
- Corpses can be repaired where they lie or on a workbench. Locks stay intact if repaired directly.
- Tool cupboards leave a temporary building block and a corpse that can be repaired.
- Beds, bags, and towels now offer one extra spawn chance after destruction.
- Reclaimed Terminals are being removed.
- When you respawn, you’ll auto-reclaim half of your belt, inventory, and backpack.
- The rest stays on your corpse (unless you F1 kill or die in building privilege—then it’s all gone).
- Teambuffs and teas now persist through death.
- Player bullet damage is reduced by 25% in Softcore.
- Max team size is capped at 4, including turret and TC authorization.
- Upkeep system changes now calculate doors separately from building materials.
Full implementation is expected in April’s patch (April 3).
🎯 Quality-of-Life Boosts: AOEs and Radius Indicators
Visual placement radii now appear for more deployables:
- Tesla Coils, HBHF Sensors, and most notably:
- Auto Turrets, Flame Turrets, and Shotgun Traps
These overlays can be disabled in the options if you’re a minimalist.
🎭 New Items Incoming: Costumes, Knives, Bread Buffs
- 🐴 Inflatable Horse Costume
Three styles, same stats as the chicken suit, egg vision included. - 🔪 Sunken Combat Knife
Cosmetic skin of the standard knife, tied to the Abyss DLC. - 🍞 Bread now heals over time rather than instantly.
- 🎏 Wall and pole banner placement range increased for easier decoration.
🌴 First Look at the Jungle Biome!
Now live on internal testing branches:
- Unique flora, lush vegetation, and a tropical vibe.
- 🐊 Crocodiles spotted—fast in water, tired on land.
- 🐅 Tigers with advanced flee mechanics based on your weapon and proximity.
- 🗿 Biome-exclusive monuments like Jungle Ruins and a large Ziggurat coming soon.
- 🌿 Special trees with jungle vines can be destroyed but regrow in 10 seconds.
- 🪃 Boomerang weapon and Venom vials from jungle snakes teased for blow dart crafting.
Also teased: a new jungle-themed stone building skin in the works!
🔧 Storage, Boats & Remote Subs?
Coming Soon:
- 📦 Vertical Storage Shelves – Wall-mounted in multiple sizes.
- 🛥️ Naval Update branch hints at:
- A Trawler Ship
- Remote-controlled ROV Submarines (think drones, but underwater)
Will this lead to another oceanic expansion? Floating bases? Underwater exploration 2.0? We’ll have to wait and sea. 🌊
