Changelog

The Naval Update!

|US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC| February 5, 2026

Naval Update Has Landed!

🛥️ Modular Boats, 🌊 Deep Sea Biome, 🏝️ Islands, 🧟 Ghost Ships & more!

After months of work and a major delay, the Naval Update is finally here — and it’s the biggest update Rust has seen in years.

🚢 Modular Player-Built Boats

🧱 Build on water with the Boat Building Station
🧭 Add engines, sails, ramps, planks, anchors, and even cannons
🔐 Lock your wheel to prevent theft
🛠️ Use Deploy & Edit Mode to retrofit mid-sea (outside deep sea)

🌊 The Deep Sea Biome

💥 World-event zone beyond the map edge
🧭 No respawns. No building. First-come, first-loot.
🧟‍♂️ Explore Ghost Ships, Floating Cities, and Tropical Islands
🧠 New scientist AI that flanks, smokes, and ambushes
🔫 Steal Scientist Boats (RHIBs & PT Boats with turrets)

🏝️ Floating Cities

Safe zones in the ocean with:
- Vendors (weapons, meds, food)
- Recyclers, workbenches, farming barge
- The Deep Deck Casino 🎰

💥 New Content & Features

📜 New naval missions
⚓ Refreshed RHIB visuals + compass/map
🎨 Artist DLC Pack (Paintball guns, paintable windows, easels, ornate frames, & more)
🔫 Workshop skins now supported for SKS

⚙️ Performance Overhaul

Massive server optimizations:

🏭 Furnaces, industrial systems, parenting volumes
🚢 Mounted AI performance
📦 Inventories, missions, spawning
🧠 Relationship manager and colliders
🔧 Unity/PhysX engine updated — physics tick now multithreaded

Result: More boats, more bases, less lag.

🖌️ Quality of Life

✅ Tech tree opens to last tab used
🎯 New gun UI for non-standard ammo types
🎨 Painting UI improvements (Escape closes, better interaction)
🔧 Hundreds of bug fixes across monuments, AI, UI, turrets, and more

🟣 Twitch Drops: Home Brewed 4

🗓️ Feb 5–15
🎁 Watch rising creators, earn limited-time skins
🔗 https://twitch.facepunch.com

🛳️ Reminder

- James
🌐 https://jamesgaming.net

NOT The Naval Update!

|US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC| December 5, 2025

📣 December 2025 Wipe Notice

🛑 No Content Update — Just Wipe 🧼
🛥️ Naval Update Delayed to February 5th

Hey everyone 👋

Today’s patch isn’t what Facepunch planned — but here’s the update:

🚢 Naval Update Delayed

The Naval Update is massive, but not ready.
To avoid bugs and performance issues during the busiest time of year, it's being pushed to:

🗓️ New Date: February 5, 2026
💬 It’ll be worth the wait — better performance, polish, and fun.

🔧 Today's Patch (Dec 4)

✅ Full Wipe @ 19:00 GMT
🧼 Blueprints wiped as usual (monthly on our server)
🚫 No gameplay changes or new content
💡 Server will wipe and restart on time

🎄 Christmas Update Incoming!

🗓️ December 18 @ 19:00 GMT
🎁 Brings holiday content + DLC originally planned for today
🎅 No wipe on the 18th — your progress is safe

🔫 Twitch Rivals: Team Battle VI

🗓️ Dec 8–12 @ 20:00 GMT / 3PM EST
🌍 150 creators, $100K prize pool
🎁 Unique Twitch Drops + general Rust category drops
🔗 https://twitch.facepunch.com/

🧪 Want to test the Naval Update early?

Rust Staging servers now live:
🌊 https://rust.facepunch.com/staging

🔁 Monthly BP Wipes — as always

We continue with full map + BP wipes on the first Thursday of each month.

Thanks for playing on
|US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC| 💙

- James
🌐 https://jamesgaming.net

Pivot Or Die

|US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC| November 6, 2025

📣 Wipe Day: November 6, 2025

🧼 Monthly BP Wipe | 🧠 Fresh Progression | 📦 QoL Overload

🧩 Progression Overhaul (Part 3)

🧠 Blueprints wiped
🛠️ Workbench scrap cost removed
📉 Tech tree costs slashed:
- Common: 15 | Uncommon: 30
- Rare: 60 | Very Rare: 120
🔄 BP Fragments still required for WB2/3

Early-game is now viable again — faster, smoother, and more fun!

🆕 New Features

🧊 Mini Fridge – 18-slot food fridge, fits under half-height
📥 Box Sorting – auto-sorts by name, count, category, or snapshot
🐴 Syringe Horses – heal & speed boost
🧪 Paint Color Wheel – HEX, favorite swatches, fast bindings
🎥 New Monument Cameras – Cargo + Ferry
🎮 F1 Menu Vehicle Spawning (Admins)

⚙️ QoL & Optimizations

🛗 Elevators: power from any floor, faster speed
🌬️ Wind turbines: huge performance boost
💻 UI: 80% less frame lag in big bases
🎰 Slot Machines & Chippy optimized
💨 Foliage now bends away when walking through

🔧 Monument Fixes

🔁 Puzzle refresh system reworked
☢️ Radiation warns 10min before reset
📦 Prevents monument loot blocking/camping issues

🚁 Helicopter Rebalance

🎯 Flares can’t be thrown manually
🔧 No in-air repairs
🚫 No healing while flying
🚁 Scrap/Minicopters now get flare launchers
🎈 Hot Air Balloons dodge with engine off

🧢 Skin Drops — Now on Kick!

🗓️ Nov 13–23
🎁 Earn the KICK Hazmat + more
🖥️ https://kick.facepunch.com/

🧸 Plushie Fundraiser Results

❤️ Raised $225,000 for charity!
Thank you to our amazing community 💙

✅ Reminder

🧼 Monthly BP Wipes — always on wipe day
🛑 No P2W | 🎮 Modded PvE | ❤️ Community-run

- James
🌐 https://jamesgaming.net

Meta Shift Update

|US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC| October 2, 2025

📣 October 2025 Rust Update — Meta Shift

Hey folks 👋

This month’s update is a game-changer — introducing the Blueprint Fragment system to shake up progression, along with puzzle reworks, loot shuffles, and tons of quality-of-life changes. There’s a lot to unpack, so here’s what’s new this wipe on |US EAST|JamesGaming|3X|PvE|RaidableBases|NPC|:

🧩 Blueprint Fragment Progression (Experimental Phase 1)

Rust’s progression has gotten too fast. This change slows things down and brings players back to contesting monuments — even in PvE, this adds a sense of pacing and value to monument loot.

Workbench 1: No change
Workbench 2: Requires 5x Basic Blueprint Fragments
Workbench 3: Requires 5x Advanced Blueprint Fragments

🔍 Where to find fragments:

Basic Fragments:

Green puzzle rooms (1x)
Blue card puzzles near red card (2x)
Mid/Large Monuments
Airdrops

Advanced Fragments:

Hackable crates (guaranteed)
Elite crates (10% chance)
Top-tier Monuments: Launch, Tunnels, Silo, Oilrigs, Labs
Events: Cargo & Chinook
Convert 20 Basic → 1 Advanced

Scrap cost for WBs is reduced to compensate. Clans may build economies from extra fragments; solos must work for theirs.

🗺️ Monument Reworks

✅ New green puzzles: Dome, Ferry Terminal, Radtown
🛠️ Dome now has a recycler
🔀 Monument Loot Shuffle: Loot crates moved/rebalanced across nearly every monument
🎯 Hackable/Elite Crates: Better loot, less junk

🔥 New Features

Crosshair Customization: Style, color, spacing, outline, and even share codes!
Spike Trap: Slows and damages players — craftable for 80 wood
Drone Storage: Can now carry & drop a stack of any item (including live explosives 👀)
Shore Crates: Random beach loot for fresh spawns
Bed Skins: Workshop support added!
Rotatable Paintings & Signs before placement
Bunnyhopping Bikes! Right-click for a small jump — stamina based

🎯 Combat & Meta Changes

Nuclear Missile Silo: Now requires RED card. 3 elite crates added. Advanced BPFs spawn here.
Chainsaw: Always starts first try now
Projectile Invalids: Major fixes to reduce false negatives
PvP Barricade Nerf:
- Stack size: 3 (was 10 → 5 → now 3)
- Health reduced by 20%

💰 Mission Buffs

Mission rewards significantly increased — more loot, more reason to give them a shot!

🧪 Modding & Optimization

We’re modded, and Facepunch is finally showing us love:

🧰 Added modding support for: max health, melee throws, vitals, icons, drone tax, and more
🛠️ Workshop UI and painting menu cleaned up
🎨 VRAM usage optimized — lower memory usage, better skin streaming
🔊 Event notifications (Oil Rig, Cargo, etc.) now play environmental sound instead of pop-ups (can be reverted with ui.monumentnotificationtoasts)

🎃 Halloween Incoming

🗓️ October 23rd – Mandatory Update
Expect spooky wallpapers and themed content.

🧸 Charity Plushies: 100% of proceeds (after fees) go to

Ronald McDonald House Charities UK
Cancer Research UK
Available until October 30th!

🧢 Twitch Rivals & Drops

🗓️ October 8th – Twitch Rivals: Base Invaders!

Exclusive backpack Twitch Drop during broadcast only
General category drops until October 12th
🔗 https://twitch.facepunch.com/

🕒 Clocks Roll Back Soon

EU servers: October 26 → GMT
US servers: November 2 → EST
We should sync up just fine for wipes, but be alert.

That’s it for this month — massive thanks to all of you for keeping the JamesGaming community thriving. As always, no P2W, no cash shop, just quality modded Rust the way it should be.

Drop by Discord and let me know what you think of the new progression system — part 2 lands in December!

- James
https://jamesgaming.net