Rust Patch Notes (August 2024): Tin Can Alarm, Shockbyte Tool Cupboard skin, and more

The latest Rust Patch Notes for the August 2024 update brings players a range of new content in the game. The Rust August Force Wipe is a minor filler update, prior to the release of the September Global Update. In the latest Force Wipe, players will get to experience a number of quality-of-life changes, alongside the addition of Tin Can Alarms, and a whole new Tool Cupboard collab skin.

This article will provide players with a detailed brief on Rust Patch Notes for August 2024.

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Rust Patch Notes for August 2024

As per the official blog, here are the Rust Patch Notes for August 2024:

Features

• Tin Can Alarm
• Shockbyte Tool Cupboard skin

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Improvements in Rust Patch Notes for August 2024

• Bikes/Snowmobiles can now be driven onto the cargo containers and moved onto the cargo ship
• Bikes/Snowmobiles will now be able to go down elevators. This includes monument and player created elevators
• Travelling vendor speed increase. Adjustable by travellingvendor.max_speed
• 'refillvitals' now removes and prevents bleed
• Ammo stored on weapons is now viewable in the tooltip similar to how attachments are displayed
• Items will now sink slowly in water and emit bubbles
• Dynamic vendor pricing is now calculated in real time, defaults to every 5 hours
• Ziplines show now travel further and will terminate at higher destinations when possible
• Can no longer be killed by colliding with a tree while ziplining
• The number text on item pickups should be larger when when picking up items with short names

• Implemented PR #56 on community UI - Improved countdown features (thanks to Kulltero)
• Last code entered into code locks is now saved across restarts
• Player movement is no longer blocked by Storage Adaptors
• Trains can break through barricades that are deployed too close to the tracks
• Motorbike sidecars now control essentially the same as standard bikes, instead of feeling more sluggish
• Motorbikes can now perform a faster turn while holding the Crouch key
• Motorbike sidecar feels less jittery
• Improved the feel of reversing on a bike
• Improved wire slack controls, reducing accidental unwanted wire slack changes
• Optimized deployable flasher lights
• Added the option to turn off the blood on screen effect (Settings > Image Effects > Hurt)
• Added effects.hurtoverleyapplylighting convar, prevents the blood on screen effect from getting affected by lighting

Removed features in Rust Patch Notes for August 2024

• Travelling vendor no longer has infinite stock. Stock now refills every 1/3rd of the vendors lifetime (10 minutes)
• Light vehicles like bikes can no longer push trains

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