A Seismic Update! — Rustafied (2024)

2:00pm EST - The update and devblog are live!

12:00am EST - It’s update time and there are a ton of quality of life changes coming in along with a new tool to help against online raiding!

The update and forced wipe is expected at normal time, 2pm EST (7pm BST). Our update stream goes live at 1pm EST. Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the day.

Seismic sensor

An exciting new tool enters Rust today – the seismic sensor. This nifty device senses whenever an explosion occurs within its vicinity, detecting everything from rockets, explosive ammo, and C4 to helicopter explosions (no molotov’s). You can change the detection radius anywhere from 1 meter up to 30 meters, making it pretty versatile. Simply wire it up to your electrical system and use it to get notified if you’re getting raided.

It will output a different power value depending on the type of explosion detected. A non-exhaustive list of power values from explosives:

• 1 power = F1 Grenade, Beancan

• 2 power = Explosive ammo, Satchel

• 3 power = C4, Rocket

Quality of life

There are a ton of various quality of life changes with the update today. Here is a rundown:

Other quality of life

• Solar panels no longer take damage when picked up

• HV and incendiary ammo have been added to the mixing table

• Decrease craft time of the following items from 30s to 15s: Wood shutters, all types of window bars, window glass

• Tweaked water pumps deploy volume so they can be deployed in a triangle (and updated deploy sound)

• Added an UI information panel showing flamethrowers damage and range values

• Reduce F15 flyby volume by 45%

• Specific sounds for Fire Arrows

• Entering the "last used" code on codelocks is now 2.5x faster

• Auto run and toggle crouch will now hold their state when the player opens the chat

• Removed electric furnace 'Turn On' and 'Turn Off' side inputs (now auto on if they have power for better handling on things like server restarts)

• Double size of mixing table recipe list from 4 -> 8 recipes shown at once

• Tesla coils and igniters now heal automatically over time by your cupboard

• Tweaks to tone down screen shaking effects

• Can now pick up empty campfire water purifiers, both water containers must be empty

Painting improvements

Following the QoL trend, there have been several improvements for the artists of Rust! Here is a summary:

• Make the sign painting UI follow the UI scale option

• Increase max paint brush size to 100

• Fix paint brush sizes less than 2 having gaps

• Strokes don’t overlap with themself, which was making it difficult to use low opacity values. This makes it behave more like a real painting app where you can't paint over somewhere that you already painted in the same stroke

• Fix incorrect paint texture resolution for landscape and portrait picture frames

• Fix framerate dropping to near zero when painting quick long strokes

• Add paint.leftsided convar to change the painting UI to be on the left side of the screen instead of right

Fishing changes

In the latest update to fishing mechanics, the game introduces a more strategic approach to how you use bait. Under the new system, you start with smaller fish as bait in an attempt to catch bigger fish, adding a layer of risk and decision-making. Will you secure your catch or gamble it in hopes of landing something even bigger? Notably, raw fish meat can no longer be used as bait, preventing players from using a large catch to simply restart the bait cycle. This change aims to enhance the challenge, forcing players to decide: cash out with a medium-sized catch or risk it for a potentially greater reward. Here are some more details:

• Fishing trap updates

  • Traps now use the same fish selection and bait logic as the standard fishing rod, differing by water type (freshwater/ocean) and no longer accept items with no bait value

  • Fixed at a fishing depth of 5m, enabling capture of all fish except sharks (requires 5.5m) and orange roughy (exclusive to moonpool)

  • Fish trap now has a 50% chance of failing, bait is still consumed but trap will remain active

  • Fish trap can no longer catch the same fish being used as bait

• Bait changes

  • Multiple lures (up to 3) can now be used simultaneously; applies to worms and grubs for catching higher value fish

  • Anchovy, herring and sardine bait value is now 2 and can be used in stacks of 2 (use 2x to reach 4 bait value)

  • Raw Bear and Wolf meat bait value increased to 10 (from 5)

  • Raw human meat bait value is now 3 (from 1), and spoiled human meat has no bait value

  • Berries' bait value now 1 (from 0.5), can be stacked up to 5 times

  • Raw fish now valued at 0.5 bait, usable in stacks of 3

  • Catfish, Small shark, Salmon, Orange Roughy, Trout, and Yellow Perch now have a bait value of 10 (eliminates possibility of losing a valuable fish for a lower value fish)

Monument no build volume shifts

The areas around monuments which block building have been shifted a bit with this update, making it harder to wall off most things. Here is a summary:

• Reduced no build volume at desert military base and arctic research base

• Increased no build volume slightly at launch site and sphere tank

• Small monuments no build volume increased, switched to sphere collider:

• Lighthouse - 100m

• Mining Outpost - 100m

• Super Market - 100m

• Gas station - 100m

• Warehouse - 100m

• Quarries - 70m

Fixes

There’s also a bunch of fixes in this update. Here are some of the notable ones:

• Legacy shelter front colliders now more accurate, fixes floating CCTV cameras

• Scrap Transport Heli speed on the airspeed gauge now matches actual speed

• Fixed F1 grenade skins not appearing on the thrown grenade

• Adjusted attack ray of chainsaw down slightly (0.1 units) so that it's hitting closer to where the viewmodel looks like it should be hitting

• Fixed the Wildlife Cull mission not registering polar bear kills

• Fix Oilrig not spawning on the top of the map as often as expected

• Fixed hacked crate keypad & improved textures

• Fixed unharvestable ghost trees

• Some visual fixes for Bradley

• Fix mixing table resetting to the top of the scrolling menu of recipes every time you access one

• Do not show IOEntity UI information panel for generic IO type items (fixes signs and frame showing power usage 0)

• NRE fixes for CH47 Scientists

• Spooky speakers audio now falls under the voice props volume slider

• Fixed flame arrows on crossbow not hiding their particle effects while using a scope

• Fixed scrap heli not being driveable on ground with Ctrl key anymore

• Fixed scrap heli wheels not animating

• Fix formatting not working for bullet/numbered lists for the in-game news

• Fixed broken modular car spawn commands

• Fix F8 menu not updating when you switch servers

• Fixed poker offering no options to the remaining player when only one player can make moves

• Fixed IO UI showing wrong power values when wiring entities from output to input

• Fixed submarine windows ignoring new fog parameter

Other stuff

• SAM sites no longer target sleeping or kinematic vehicles

• Renamed "Suicide" to "Respawn" in the main menu

• Initial hood and cuffs functionality added to AUX2 (more on that next week)

EU Trio 2 is now: EU Trio Mondays

In the interest of balancing out our server portfolio and due to popular demand, we are switching EU Trio 2 to a Monday, weekly wipe schedule. This change goes live with the update today. Blueprint wipes will continue to be monthly. There are no changes to EU Trio 1.