Rust August 2026 Update — What's Coming
Facepunch ships the monthly update and forced map wipe together, on the first Thursday of the month at 19:00 UTC. Full schedule on the wipe timer.
Player-maintained monuments: insert Heavy Fuses at the Power Plant to bring the island's grid online in phases, unlocking features across eight monuments — plus wall upkeep changes, clothing buffs and a big Auto Turret cost increase.
Confirmed so far
From staging-branch reporting — pre-release, so details can still move before Thursday.
- ✓Heavy Fuse system — Power Plant hub with fuse boxes; monument-wide power phases 0-4
- ✓Roadside power transformers with output scaling by phase
- ✓Powered monuments: Airfield, Oxum's, Power Plant, Supermarket, Water Treatment, Oil Rig, Dome, Launch Site
- ✓Phase 1: garage automation, blue-room bonus loot, Supermarket freezer, water pressure valve
- ✓Phase 3: Oil Rig switches activate crude oil pumps at Dome
- ✓Phase 4: high-efficiency recycler, Chinook resupply call, satellite crash event
- ✓Wolf Headdress craftable variants (9 skins)
- ✓Sleeping bag favoriting and compass marking
- ✓High External Walls and Gates now cost upkeep
- ✓Clothing protection buffs: Snow Jacket, Black Shirt, Bucket Helmet
- ✓Auto Turret cost increase: 10 → 25 High Quality Metal
- ✓Apartment rent capped at 72 hours
- ✓Dart boards, pool tables and a stone sculpture deployable
- ✓Recycle bin workbench upgrade
- ✓Kayaks and paddles purchasable at Fishing Village (not just the blueprint)
Numbers still changing
Facepunch is still tuning these — treat anything quoted elsewhere as provisional until the devblog lands.
- ~Heavy Fuse burn duration (dev values still moving)
- ~Satellite crash event cost (quoted 9 Tech Trash + 1 MLRS module, marked subject to change)
- ~Crude oil pump production rates
- ~Chinook resupply reset window
Sources: CorrosionHour update preview · Bisect Hosting wipe preview · checked 4 August 2026. We publish the full breakdown — including datamined changes Facepunch doesn't list — once the update ships.
Common Ground
2 July 2026 — Adds an Apartment Complex monument where fresh-spawned players can rent a room at varying price points and amenity levels, giving newcomers an early foothold on a wipe. The complex also hosts rentable player-run shops, and the update introduces a full clan system as a larger-scale alternative to teams.
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