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Naval Update adds player-made boats: build with a Boat Building Station and gear like sails, helm, engines, anchor, cannons, ramps, and planks, with a lock on the wheel. Deep Sea brings ghost ships, floating cities, tropical islands and scientist boats; PT Boat joins RHIB, plus compass/map on RHIB and new AI. Five naval missions, Artist DLC with paint tools/frames, SKS skins, and big server perf gains across AI, physics and spawning.
Rust turns 12 and wipes the servers for 2026; Santa’s packing up. 2025 was huge: peak 259k, 450M+ sessions, 5.8M players, 700M hours. Updates ranged from Primitive and Crafting to Jungle, Friends with Benefits, Meta Shift, QoL and menu revamps. 2026 brings monthly updates, Rust Mobile, Naval update on Feb 5, new monuments and animal breeding, plus DLC/skinnables (maybe a battlepass). Cheating crackdown and perf work continue; Staging for early naval content.
Rust’s Christmas event is live: two gifts spawn near you, you can trade up small gifts, wear Santa hats/reindeer antlers, and loot stockings. Advent calendar runs daily from Dec 16–Jan 1. There are festive wallpapers, Rustmas store items, and Twitch/Kick drops. Also a Can Be backpack collab, a Rustmas base decorating contest, Steam sale, and staging branch wipes through the holidays.
Progression: all Blueprints wiped, unlock costs cut (Common 15, Uncommon 30, Rare 60, Very Rare 120), scrap removed from Workbenches; fragments unchanged. Wipes monthly not confirmed. Also QoL: box sorting modes, mini fridge, monument puzzle refresh tweaks, syringes on horses (speed boost), drone-visible vending, wind turbine perf tweaks, faster elevator, helicopter nerfs, new CCTV codes, color-wheel painting with favorites.
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