Player-made boats are here, providing a new way to explore the seas, including the Deep Sea! Place the new Boat Building Station deployable in the water and get building with your shipmates! Use the new Boat Building Plan to construct your dream boat, utilising a new set of boat-specific building blocks. Add a steering wheel, anchor, sails, engines, planks, ramps and cannons to complete your vessel and head off into the Deep Sea! Careful consideration and placement of your e

🚢 Naval Update Happy Wipe Day , Canadian Chill! Today’s wipe brings one of Rust’s biggest updates yet — the Naval Update is officially live. This update introduces boat building and access to the brand‑new Deep Sea zone , opening up an entirely new area to explore, farm, and take on events. Because this content is brand new for everyone — including us as admins — we want to be transparent about how things will work during the early stages and what to expect over the next c

In the event you've been living under a rock the Naval Update is coming with the February wipe! We're encouraging anyone with the extra time and passion for its success to go play a bit of the staging branch (beta) between now and then.  Your feedback is valuable to us and you can submit that feedback using the F7 reporting system built into the game! To access Staging, simply download it from your Steam library!

Today is not the update I wanted to ship. For almost 12 years we have managed to deliver weekly updates or, in more recent years, guaranteed monthly updates with meaningful changes. It has become part of Rust’s identity. Turning up, every month, without fail. Not today. We took on too much. The naval update is massive, lots of new systems, touching old ones, and the closer we got to patch release, the less confident and happy we were with the state of it. We could have pushed

Servers are now wiped and Santa is packing up and clearing out the bodies, but we hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season. We're getting back to work after a couple of weeks off, which is why this blog is lighter than usual, but we're looking forward to the journey ahead in 2026! Last month, we celebrated Rust's 12th anniversary, marking an incredible journey. The game continues to experience year-over-year growth, which is quite remarkable for being 12 years old. Rust is now big