Rust adds a jungle biome - the biggest change to its map in 9 years

Survival hellscape Rust has added a tropical jungle biome to its procedurally generated maps, the biggest alteration to the scenery of the crippled successful 9 years. It'll look adjacent to wherever caller players spawn and hides a fig of threats and fun. Poisonous snakes volition skitter done the undergrowth and riverside crocs volition chew your look fixed the chance. There are ruins and temples hidden among the trees, lodging immoderate basal loot. And you tin plaything from vines, possibly inspiring a full caller beingness successful the canopy. Probably for the best, considering determination are present tigers and panthers stalking the crushed below.

Developers Facepunch elaborate each the changes successful an update station connected Steam. Maps are inactive procedurally generated (they've been this mode since the nudist execution sim moved to Unity 5 successful 2016) but until present maps person been fundamentally a premix of arctic, temperate, and godforsaken biomes. So this does look a important caller summation to the deadly dog-eat-dog dangerzone.

To assistance retired with that, determination are 2 caller weapons: a boomerang that returns to the player, and a blowpipe "for those who bask causing problems quietly." It tin beryllium loaded up with antithetic types of dart ammo, including an "incapacitate" dart that slows its victims and obscures their imaginativeness for a time. Or a "radiation" dart that simply stacks radioactive ill-health onto your foe. Hideous behaviour, and not 1 spot astonishing for Rust. The caller wildlife sounds arsenic brutal.

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"The tiger whitethorn beryllium the deadliest carnal you'll ever brushwood [in] Rust," accidental the devs. "It closes successful highly dilatory from behind, and lone strikes erstwhile it's definite to kill. A infinitesimal of inattention successful the jungle is each it takes."

To marque definite that enemy's AI doesn't consciousness "unfair and bullshit," the carnal volition person a acceptable of cues that you person to ticker and perceive for portion roaming the fern-ridden floor. "It'll beryllium connected you to experimentation and observe those hidden signals."

The overgrown temples (an past ziggurat, for example) volition fell immoderate mysteries, we're told. And somewhat little weathered ruins volition incorporate "low-tier supplies and possibly adjacent a fewer surprises tucked away". The spot is besides a botanist's delight, from the sounds of things.

"The jungle biome features a ample assortment of wholly caller foliage," they say. "This includes caller types of bushes, specified arsenic bromeliads and monstera. New undergrowth plants similar arrowroot and calathea. As good arsenic [a] assortment of caller trees similar trumpet trees, jungle palms and sandbox trees. The biggest of them each are tremendous kapok trees that you volition beryllium capable to ascent and plaything from."

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There's a clump of different worldly accompanying the update (here's the afloat spot notes), including beefing up of servers, and a DLC battalion with an Aztec-flavoured AK-47. If lone Moctezuma had had 1 of these...

I'm not going backmost to Rust, adjacent with each this lush-looking leafage rendering. I haven't visited its randogen den of misdeeds successful implicit a decade, erstwhile I chronicled a nine-life misadventure with its chaotic players. But adjacent I tin spot the crippled has changed a immense magnitude since then, adding boats, h2o pistols, submarines, philharmonic instruments, NPC quest-givers, and adjacent - ohio my deity - backpacks. No wonderment it remains 1 of our champion endurance games. If you're made of sturdier worldly than I, this could beryllium a bully clip to spell camping.