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What’s changed on Rust in each patch.

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Features

  • Added grass.distance convar (range 100-200, default 100)
  • Added headlerp convar (adjusts head snapback speed after alt look)
  • Added headlerp_inertia convar (smoothens the head snapback motion after alt look)
  • Added admin refillvitals console commands (fills health, calories and hydration)
  • Added admin heal console command (same as calling hurt with negative values)
  • Redesigned death screen
  • Can now place a marker on the map
  • Added screen mode (Fullscreen exclusive, Fullscreen Borderless, Windowed) option to Screen settings
  • Added FPS Limit slider to Screen settings
  • Shift-middle mouse drag to split a third of an item stack
  • Right click the item split bar to type an exact split amount
  • Middle/shift-middle mouse click the splitter bar to set it to half/third
  • Left click and drag your inventory screen player model to spin it around
  • Right click a Quick Craft icon to remove it from the crafting queue
  • Right click an item in the crafting queue to move it to the start of the queue
  • Added a Crafting Favourites system
  • Added keybinds to drop a single/full stack of the the currently selected/active item to the Inventory settings section
  • Added "unable to repair" reason chat notifications
  • Added Tesla Coil
  • Added Horse Wood Armor
  • Added Horse Roadsign Armor
  • Added Horse Shoes
  • Added Saddlebags
  • Horse breeds actually impact horse statistics
  • Added Ammunition information panel
  • Added Electrical wire flow indicator
  • Added double door skins
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Improvements

  • Disabled status effects in god mode
  • Disabled food and hydration depletion in god mode
  • Disabled radiation poisoning in god mode
  • There's now a small 0.75 second buffer when the Quick Craft list refreshes to help prevent miss-clicks
  • Added an Electrical category to the crafting screen and re-categorised all electrical items
  • Added a Favourites category to the crafting screen
  • Cleaned up some ambient and foliage sounds
  • Updated bear sounds
  • Updated pressure pad sounds
  • Updated collectible resource sounds
  • Cleaned up barefoot footsteps a little bit
  • Evened out and increased attack helicopter rotor sound volume
  • Electrical wires now have normal mapping and a 3d look
  • Spas-12 has a slightly higher fire rate
  • Shotgun slugs are more accurate and do more damage
  • Shotgun slugs have a closer damage falloff
  • M92 has a slightly slower fire rate
  • Simple Sight is now a default blueprint
  • M39 swapped with L96 as bandit camp
  • Bradley loot table improved
  • Bradley is more vulnerable to HV rockets
  • Bradley top turret has been enabled
  • Excavator yield increased by 30%
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Fixed

  • Fixed lerp convar exploit (now admin / dev only and clamped to a sane range)
  • Fixed exploit to disarm landmines from any distance
  • Fixed exploit to free underwater loot crates from any distance
  • Fixed exploit to interact with excavator from any distance
  • Fixed bullet impact glow effect not following vehicles after impact
  • Can no longer drag/throw items when you're wounded
  • Can no longer combine world items of non-full condition to get a free repair
  • Consumable item information panel no longer shows default values the first time you inspect one
  • Minor Hapis Island fixes
  • Fixed campfire description
  • Fixed recycler description
  • Fixed errors when entering site B (Hapis Island)
  • Fixed scrap transport helicopter oil rig exploits
  • Fixed APC crates falling through the ground
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Features

  • Unity 2019.2.0f1
  • Players are automatically authed to placed cupboards
  • Benchmark mode fixes
  • Added powerline wires to Monument Puzzles
  • Added an in-game Screen options menu for resolution, fullscreen and vsync settings
  • Client is now using IL2CPP instead of Mono
  • Server is available as IL2CPP version on the "release-il2cpp" branch
  • World generation is now server authoritative (faster load times, more robust)
  • Added doppler shift to some sounds
  • Added texture streaming
  • Added Transport Helicopter
  • Added Horse Leading
  • Added Fuel Generator
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Improvements

  • Fixed rendering TopBunnies UI element all the time
  • Optimized Notices UI layout
  • Neatened up Notices UI
  • Tweaked "new content" label on main menu
  • The map now re-focuses on the player's position when injured
  • The console input field now auto-focuses when opening or changing tabs.
  • Max value of gc.buffer is now 4096 instead of 2048
  • Log warning when doing emergency garbage collection
  • Enabled crunch texture compression on workshop skin bundles
  • Performance text no longer updates when nothing changed (avoids GC)
  • Performance text always prints GC counter for one second after GC runs
  • Simplified "perf" convar (1=FPS, 2=frame time, 3=memory, 4=ping, 5=everything)
  • Debug Camera: R resets the camera
  • Debug Camera: Q/E move the camera vertically
  • Debug Camera: Z/C and +/- control zoom
  • Debug Camera: Arrow keys control roll
  • Debug Camera: Disabled inventory and crafting menus when in debug camera
  • Debug Camera: Disabled vehicle controls when in debug camera
  • Debug Camera: Disabled noclip control when in debug camera
  • Debug Camera: Added debugcamera_save and debugcamera_load (multiple save names are supported)
  • Debug Camera: Added debugcamera_autosave and debugcamera_autoload
  • Debug Camera: Added camzoomlerp (likecamlerp but for zoom)
  • Small maps have large monuments again (excluding launch site and excavator)
  • Updated NPC helicopter sounds
  • Reduced texture memory footprint (by ~1 GB) via texture streaming
  • Reduced mesh memory footprint (by ~700 MB) via model optimizations
  • Improved TSSAA and motion blur quality on vegetation and cloth affected by wind
  • Optimized high-quality shadow mode = 2, now 25% faster
  • Added new very-high-quality shadow mode = 3
  • Pressure pads can now be hidden under rugs
  • Pressure pads generate a small amount of electricity when stepped on
  • Grenades have a more predictable landing position
  • F1 grenades have a fuse length of 3 instead of 3.5
  • Rocket Launcher need T2 WB( Instead of T3 )
  • HV Rockets need T2 WB( Instead of T3 )
  • Autoturrets never miss more than 3 shots in a row
  • Autoturrets now make use of the electricity system
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Fixed

  • Fixed steam refresh overlay not closing after opening bag
  • Fixed possible exception when retrieving market prices
  • ServerInfo will retry multiple times if failed to get info
  • ServerInfo will fail gracefully if failed to get info after multiple attempts
  • Fixed titles getting cut off in pie menu
  • Fixed loading screen cancel button being 1 pixel smaller than the bar to its left
  • Fixed steam friend inconsistencies
  • Fixed unexpected palm trees behavior when helicopters would fly over
  • Player map position now updates correctly when injured
  • Fixed erratic map scrolling when using the left mouse button to drag
  • Hotspot visuals now get cleaned up correctly when ent-killing
  • Disabling the UI no longer allows you to see through smoke effects
  • Can no longer spam drink back to full health
  • Completing a tutorial achievement will no longer mark the whole tutorial as complete temporarily
  • Fixed item icon staying on screen if inventory is closed while dragging
  • Fixed High External Gates not playing SFX correctly
  • Fixed compound sometimes spawning underwater
  • Fixed exploit using water projectile penetration
  • Fixed snapback issues when dismounting while moving fast
  • Fixed swimming slightly under the waves not showing underwater properly
  • Fixed crashes on AMD Phenom
  • Fixed swamp fog too bright at night
  • Fixed lighting on some particles (e.g. helicopter damage smoke)
  • Fixed NRE on ent kill cargo ship
  • Game log is written to output_log.txt in the game install folder again
  • Fixed deflated HAB having inflated collision and wrecking minicopters
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Removed

  • Removed Vulkan graphics API
  • Removed Linux client
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Features

  • Added force triggers (excavator belts)
  • Added terrain anti hack protection
  • Added Excavator monument
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Improvements

  • Optimized some server side player packet verifications
  • Entity parenting triggers now support compound triggers and exclusion zones (excavator arm)
  • Removed large monuments and mountains on smaller maps (now limited to 3500 world size or larger)
  • Barren now has harbors, oil rigs and water wells
  • Barren prefab mountains no longer spawn in the desert
  • Allow deployables to be placed under Water barrel
  • Increased the cost of lowgrade at Compound
  • Increased server browser timeout limit to 90 seconds
  • Hapis Island fixes and tweaks
  • Optimized server-side water buoyancy
  • Optimized terrain shader
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Fixed

  • Fixed binds not working with "cinematic_play" and "cinematic_stop"
  • Fixed "monuments" console command being abused to find caves
  • Fixed weapon reload issues at extremely low FPS
  • Fixed RF Broadcaster being placed through walls
  • Fixed being stuck when dismounting helicopter on top of Compound buildings
  • Fixed accidentally pressing "Create Team" while dropping items on low resolutions
  • Fixed text overflow on team dock when players have long names
  • Fixed team member map font being unreadable
  • Fixed large furnace placement under the terrain
  • Fixed scope overlay being extremely small on larger screen resolutions
  • Fixed misclicking accept would reject the team invite
  • Fixed hunters jacket skin being black
  • Fixed some volumetrics not disappearing during day time
  • Fixed broken train cart coal material on powerplant monument
  • Fixed some materials turning black on lowest shader levels in powerplant monument
  • Fixed duplicate networkable objects (e.g. doors) when playing demos
  • Fixed passengers being able to access minicopter fuel
  • Fixed horses eating too much food at hitching posts
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Features

  • Added cinematic animations for video creation (see devblog)
  • Added player tick rate convars to the server (see devblog)
  • Added Streamer mode to options menu
  • Added new horse model and breeds
  • Added Hitch-Trough deployable
  • Added Minicopter fuel gauge
  • Added Minicopter pilot IK
  • Added 'hattip' gesture
  • Added a bunch of secret achievements
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Improvements

  • Optimized distant tree networking (client memory savings)
  • Optimized physics queries by removing collider batching entirely (previously disabled)
  • Optimized all entity queries
  • Optimized buoyancy physics transform sync
  • Optimized server player updates and transform sync
  • Optimized server packet handling
  • Optimized client inventory update
  • Optimized monument memory use
  • Optimized ocean wave foam rendering
  • Optimized gpu-side wave simulation for rendering
  • Optimized cpu-side wave simulation for buoyancy
  • Horses require far less food
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Fixed

  • Fixed exploit to stack foundation steps
  • Fixed swamp fog too bright at night
  • Fixed water purifier disappearing after going out of network range
  • Fixed misclicking accept would reject the team invite
  • Fixed Rustige Egg not taking splash damage
  • Fixed being able to pick up sam site when it contained ammo
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Features

  • Enabled skin unloading by default for everybody
  • Enabled the new multibox pruning broadphase algorithm for the physics system
  • Added 'gesture' console command
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Improvements

  • Improved network interpolation time offset calculation
  • Optimized the AI sensory system
  • Added skin memory usage to print_loaded_skins
  • Optimized the vending machine world UI (also affects the new Chippy arcade)
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Fixed

  • Fixed 'Ride Horse' being visible when someone is already on the horse

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