Author: Mike6FO

FacePunch released a mandatory Server/Client update this morning after only a few hours notice, while most were sleeping, and with only a short term update to staging (beta) branch first. This forced update has caused several plugins to break. While we are monitoring for updates, most plugins “appear” to be working again as of now. There are some behind the scenes issues, but seem to be mostly cosmetic at this time.

However, we do encourage all players to report any issues on our Discord so we can follow up to make sure they are fixed.

Half the year is already gone. I don’t know about you, but I’d love to know where it went!

This month, Facepunch has released bikes to Rust. These can be found at various monuments. There are two manual bikes (standard bicycle and a tricycle) and two motor bikes (standard and with sidecar). We also expect (hope) these will be loaded to vehicle licenses soon.

Facepunch also introduced changes to vending machines. Mainly the new dynamic pricing on NPC vending machines. However, it also appears that these changes caused issues with several of the machines at our combined Outpost. As such, we have reverted back to a separate Outpost and Bandit Camp for this wipe. We will look at options for mid-month wipe and hopefully bring back a combined Outpost.

As always, if you experience any problems, please let us know in #admin-help on our Discord.

Rocket launchers have been removed from the Factory Guards (at Factory) and Village Idiots (at Village). This is to fix possible NPC raids of player bases that were built too close to these monuments.

The loot tables used by Raidable Bases have been updated. There are still some tweaks that need to be made, but players should see more loot in their raids now.

Of course, Raidable Bases still randomizes the loot in each base. However, the tables are more compact and should produce better results now.

The extra crafting menu (where you can craft things like targeting computer, 16x scope, etc.) at the workbench has been temporarily patched by the plugin author.

Now when you place a workbench, a tool chest will also appear. You can open this chest to access the menu.

Some notes:

• If you have already placed a workbench, you will need to pick it up and place it again before you see the tool chest and are able to access the menu.
• Workbenches with the tool chest can’t be picked up with the hammer. You must use the /remove command to pick the workbench up. (It will be placed back in your inventory with this command.)

/raidme has received a hotfix from the plugin author that should prevent NPCs from spawning under the map in some situations.

If you still experience this issue, please let us know via a ticket in #admin-help on our Discord.

Remember: We can’t help you with lost items or repairing damaged bases when you use this plugin. Use of /raidme is at your own risk. This includes damage/loss caused by stuck NPCs.

Just pushed a fix for some items purchased from the store not stacking correctly with items found/crafted in the world. This mostly applied to ammo, but some other items were also affected.

If you’ve purchased items from the store prior to this fix that are not stacking correctly and wish for them to be fixed, please open a ticket in #admin-help on our Discord and we will update the items for you manually. Please have them in a separate container at your base before opening the ticket and keep in mind it may take some time before we get to it.

A while back, we had to disable the protections that kept players from dropping an entire stack of mods onto a weapon or an entire stack of clothing on themselves. We re-enabled this protection a few months ago.

However, we are disabling this protection again after events from today.

So keep in mind that if you now drop an entire stack of a mod onto your weapon, it will indeed put the entire stack on your weapon. If you then lose your weapon, you will also lose all the mods in that stack. So when pulling a mod over (or an item of clothing) either use the splitting bar to select only 1 or you can right-click and drag the mod over directly from the stack. Right-click dragging will also only pull one item from the stack.

We apologize that this has to be done, but battling lag (even that caused by other players) is one of our top priorities.

Facepunch finally fixed the stuck horses at Ranch. Players can once again buy horses there if desired.

FacePunch introduced a change to Patrol Heli that caused it to always crash at a monument when shot down. This has been changed back so that the heli will crash just like before (over the area it was actually shot down at).