Last update for 2017: upkeep, nighttime, flashlight and more…

Although we have another week to go for this year, the Rust devs also need their week off after between Christmas and New Years. Therefore, tonight is this years last one. And a much appreciated one. Let’s get into the new things.

Decay
A new notification bar has been added to let you know if your base is decaying or how long it takes before your building will actually decay. This notification will appear at the right side of your screen, just below the ‘building privilege’ sign. The notification only shows when you are in the protected radius of your cupboard.

Important note: since some of our servers have upkeep disabled (thus there are no resources in a cupboard) we don’t know what this will mean for people on those servers yet. We’ll know soon enough.

Slower upkeep
On servers where Upkeep is enabled the time for blocks to decay has been increased by 30%. Also decay tiers have been increased by 50 blocks. Since most of our servers have upkeep enabled or edited, this will have little effect on those servers. You will see differences on Vanilla servers though.

Where’s the night?
The Rust team has implemented some shifts to lighting. The moon is not just ‘black’ anymore. Nighttime with a moon is now a bit brighter.

New item(s)!
After we thought we had the last new added items (Christmas stuff) in-game, the team just added a new one: a handheld flashlight. With the changes to lighting during evenings and nighttime, a warm welcome will be given to the flashlight. It’s a default blueprint and costs are just 30 metal frags. You need a level 1 workbench. It also appears that we will be having a flare tonight!

See your gun!
You are now actually able to see your gun from all its sides. Just hold ‘N’ and your character will show the gun you’re holding from both sides. Stop the animation by pressing your fire key. The animation is (not yet) visible for other players.

So, what else?
We’re not there yet. There are also some small other changes:

Wounded players no longer block players movement after the update and a flashlight can now be added to crossbows. Game tips will tell players to place and fill cupboards as a reminder and there are a lots of tweaks to fog.

As always, we don’t know when the update hits, but when it hits, we’ll wipe Easy USA. And plugins that rely on updated commands or settings can be broken after the update. We’ll try to fix those as soon as possible after we notice them.