Author: Mike6FO

Welcome to November everyone. This month, Facepunch released their new Frontier pack available in the Rust item shop. Please consider purchasing it to support continued development of Rust. Several of the items from the pack have been added to the rewards shop (/s). NOTE: As of the time of this post, the icons for these items are not yet available, so they only show as the black and white Rust logo. We are also aware that the new items have not yet been added to Stack Modifier. This means those items will have Vanilla stacking for now. We will post an update once the stacks are updated.

This month, after a majority vote on Discord, we are running a custom map to get into the winter spirit (more snow). As such, we have made sure to add electric heaters to the shop as well to keep you nice and warm inside your base. Don’t forget to grab a test gen in the shop also to power them!

Due to continued performance issues, we had to issue another server wipe at 9PM Easter on the 23rd. Backpacks should still be populated.

We have also removed the chest stacking plugin and the conveyor speed plugin. These were the only 2 plugins that were added around the time performance started taking a hit. Hopefully, this will be the last time we have to wipe this month. Force wipe is still on November 2nd.

Unscheduled server wipes are not something anyone likes, especially us. But given the constant server performance (or rather the lack of performance) we did issue a wipe about an hour ago. At the moment, everything seems to be working much better. Players should still have access to their backpack contents pre-wipe. We ‘may’ also look at letting players keep backpacks across the next force wipe coming up on November 2nd.

Another change made with the unscheduled wipe was the removal of windmills. We polled our Discord and received unanimous support for their removal to help reduce client-side lag. Windmills can no longer be crafted or placed. They have also been removed from the loot table. Windmills are still listed on the craft menu, but you will not be able to actually craft them. To help, the cost of Test Gens in the shop (/s) has been reduced to 50.

Conveyor speedup has been restored back. However, the Armored Train Event has been removed for now. This appears to be the root cause of our server performance issues (or at least a main culprit). We will look at restoring the event after the author has time to look into the issue.

The Industrial Conveyor speed has been reverted back to vanilla while we continue to debug the server performance issues.

The number of allowed purchasable bases at one time has been reduced from 5 to 3 while we continue to look at system performance. This means only 4 bases will be allowed to run at a time. The server spawned one and 3 purchased bases.

The speed of the Industrial Conveyor has been increased to better match the quick smelting plugin. Should help prevent backlog of output in furnaces.

Building skins plugin has been updated to support the new Brutalist skin for stone.

Convoy has been updated. The biggest fix is that turrets will not attack a moving convoy now. However, if you attack a convoy at your base, your turrets will then engage the NPCs.

Chest Stacks have been added. Players can now stack loot chests up to three high. Some Notes:

• To place a stacked chest, position it over the bottom chest and RIGHT-CLICK to place it.
• Remover tool will NOT remove stacked chests (at least not currently). The only way to remove a stacked chest is to pick it up with the hammer.