Happy Lunar New Year!

Rust is celebrating Lunar New Year for the first time - with a bang! There is a mandatory server and client update coming out today which will introduce a bunch of fireworks along with a New Year Gong and Rat Mask.

Our update stream will go live at 1pm EST. Follow @Rustafied for news throughout the day.

Lunar New Year update

The update is expected around normal time (2pm EST) and will not force a wipe. Rustafied maps will still wipe at their regularly scheduled times. Along with a festive menu logo and fresh background video, you’ll be treated to a slew of new in-game objects to aid you in celebration…

Boomers!!

Highlight of the Lunar New Year update, 8 fireworks (or Boomers) have been added. They have varying colors, sizes, and styles. No confirmation yet, but it appears these will be available for purchase on the item store after the update hits.

They can be stacked to 20 and deployed on ground surfaces (no walls). To set any of these off, simply whack them with a lit torch (or use a flamethrower if you’re a fucking baller).

Each colored Boomer sends up around 10 individual firework explosions. The Champagne Boomer sends up several large fireworks each with 5 or so small explosions following the large one. The Volcano Firework is basically a large sparkler which shoots up out of the ground and the Roman Candle shoots a bunch of red balls in the air.

Here is the crafting information for each (subject to change):

Blue Boomer
25 frags
30 gunpowder

Green Boomer
25 frags
30 gunpowder

Red Boomer
25 frags
30 gunpowder

Orange Boomer
25 frags
30 gunpowder

Violet Boomer
25 frags
30 gunpowder

Champagne Boomer
25 frags
90 gunpowder

Volcano Firework
25 frags
15 gunpowder

Roman Candle
25 frags
15 low grade fuel

Rat Mask

What better way to celebrate the year of the rat than with a bronze and gold mask of the creature itself? Also likely to be available on the item store, it provides the same protection as the Dragon Mask.

Cost
TBD

Projectile
+30%

Melee
+60%

Bite
+10%

Radiation
+4%

Cold
+6%

Explosion
+13%

New Year Gong

Fireworks isn’t the only way to make some noise to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Able to be mounted on a wall inside or outside your base, the New Year Gong lets out a satisfying noise when smashed with your torch or shot. Like the fireworks, it appears this will be available for purchase on the item store after the update.

Cost
400 wood
100 frags
20 cloth

Other stuff

The team is working hard on a bunch of other things also. Here is a summary of the commits from this week:

• Farming 2.0 work

• More vehicle work

• Work on updating the hitbox system

• More HDRP work

• Fix autoturrets retaliating against SAM sites when they accidentally get hit

• More ring road work (including increased supermarket and gas station target count from 2 to 3)

• Add spawnhere command to spawn entities at the player's position and rotation (or a given world rotation)

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