12:00am EST - The team is cranking on future features, various quality of life, optimizations, and more! Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the week.

Naval Update Progress

More progress is taking place on the naval update functionality - the next big update to hit Rust. A focal point this week is floating cities. It's not clear exactly what these will entail, but along with the grey boxes (base models without textures) of the structures, there is a good amount of work on various types of loot crates, so it seems these floating monuments will have loot. There's also work on outboard motors, a manual anchor, and sails.

It's unknown when the naval update will hit, and unlikely to be for the June update, but probably in the next couple months.

Large Demolish Changes

A handy change for base builders: more deployables can now be demolished within 10 minutes of placement. The list includes the Watchtower, Barricades, Wind Generators, Paddling Pools, and Water Catchers. Great quality-of-life tweak if you misplace something or want to adjust your setup.

New Menu

Looks like a full revamp of the escape menu is underway! While there aren’t any visuals just yet, commits point to a complete overhaul of the system. No word on when it’ll go live, but we’ll keep an eye on it and share more as it develops.

Attack Helicopter Ammo QOL

A solid quality-of-life update is coming for the attack helicopter! Pilots can now choose between HV or incendiary rockets by holding R to bring up a radial menu — just like with weapon attachments. By default, HV rockets are selected, and switching doesn’t trigger a reload, it simply changes what ammo gets prioritized.

Also, you can now press R to manually reload the rocket pods, even if you haven’t fired a full volley. If you still have all 6 rockets loaded, the reload won’t trigger. A nice touch for those high-pressure moments in the air.

Apple Changes

Some tweaks are in for apples this week! You now only need 1 apple (down from 2) to cook up an apple pie. Apples have also been added as a sellable item at water well vendors, and the chance of finding them in water well food caches has been bumped up — so you’ll be seeing a bit more of them around.

Other stuff

Players no longer spawn in jungle biome
Initial work on a bee catapult bomb
Hardwood floor ‘wallpapers’ in the works
Fix chainsaws not showing their fuel count when inside a chest
Fixes for LR300 view models
Turrets are less accurate when shooting players on moving trains
Coconut gloves compatible with Snow Jacket and Bunny Onesie
A bunch more work on foliage instancing (optimizations / performance improvements for all foliage)
Fixed the issue causing incorrect ordering + colouring of available mixing/cooking table items based on ingredient availability, only when in standalone builds
Fixed being able to place floating signs with a ladder on top of a tugboat
New token for pure warming tea, renamed cooling tea to basic cooling tea and adjusted min and max temp values for warming and cooling teas.
Added blue light to industrial lights
Holding the directional drop key will drop items to the ground even when dropped over other inventory slots/ui, to make it easier to drop items with direction without needing to drag the icon all the way off the inventory (experimental)
Various tweaks to swinging vines
Optimizations and improvements to various IO related things to make them more consistent across the board
Improved triangle ladder hatch deploy volumes, won't be blocked by random nearby deployables anymore
Added new binds to swap seats in vehicles (CTRL + 1 -> driver seat, CTRL + 2 -> seat 2, etc) - able to be edited in key binds options
New Targeting Attachment weapon mod, allows the player to use pings while the weapon with this attachment is equipped
Updated Oil filter and Soda can silencer inventory grab, drop, phys impact sounds
Neon sign side inputs cost the same power as the main input