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Rust is finally adding backpacks to kick off its second decadePets won’t arrive this year, though
Pets won’t arrive this year, though
Image credit:Facepunch Studios
Image credit:Facepunch Studios
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First, backpacks! After years of player-made mods, they’ll finally be made official on February 1st, with players able to craft backpacks as a new attire, allowing for increased storage space. Next month’s update will also see the number of shelters that players can place limited. Backpacks will be available a few weeks earlier in Rust’s Staging branch, if you’re playing on the test server.
Beyond that, Facepunch say they will keep up their monthly update frequency in 2024, with new features landing on the first Thursday of each month. Among the content confirmed to be in development are motorcycles, new weapons, reworked monuments and a new tutorial for newcomers - with Facepunch saying that Rust’s player base continues to grow even a decade after its release.
A key focus for the studio is improving performance, particularly dropping Rust’s hunger for memory to boost frames. Those tweaks are due to arrive within the next couple of months.
Image credit:Facepunch Studios
Facepunch also addressed the issue of cheaters, promising that they are working to address exploits and cheats - but without revealing more at the apparent risk of undoing their anti-cheat efforts.
“Last year, we overdoubled our support team to aid in player support issues, which included anti-cheat matters,” the studio wrote in anupdate post. “This year we’re dedicating more resources into anti cheat than ever and exploring some more radical measures.”
For all the improvements and updates due to arrive throughout 2024, there is one long-requested addition that won’t see a release this year: pets. Facepunch confirmed that they had worked on developing pets “for several months”, but ultimately stopped the project as the result of having “several obstacles to overcome first”. While pets apparently remain on the long list of goals, the developers confirmed that pets won’t make it into Rust this year.
