Rust Patch Notes (July 2024 update): Bicycles, Prisoner update, Travelling Vendors, and more

The brand-new Rust patch for July 2024 brings a wave of changes to the game. The developers at Facepunch Studios have gone all out to incorporate an array of new features in the game. New vehicles, such as the bicycle, have been added, which allow players to avail a quick and free mode of transport from the nearest gas stations.

This article provides a more in-depth preview of the new Rust patch for July 2024. For a detailed brief on this month's Force Wipe updates, keep reading.

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Rust Patch Notes for July 4, 2024

Features

• Dynamic NPC Vendor pricing
• Creative Mode
• Handcuffs
• Prisoner Hood
• Added motorbikes
• Added pedal bikes
• Travelling Vendor

Improvements

• Reduced memory usage by optimising the number of objects in the world
• Increased the maximum number of water containers that can receive water from another container (3 -> 12)
• Don’t render the underlying player hands when wearing a hazmat suit, fixes some clipping
• Play the old workbench open/close sounds when switching between tech tree tabs
• Improved performance when switching between tech tree tabs
• Don’t allow the fill placement on Planters to work until the player is in range of all slots on the planter
• Buttons in monument elevators can now open the current door even if they are blocked by a vehicle
• Optimised wire slack calculation
• Allow demo recorder UI to be visible in debug camera view
• Added a popup warning the user if they're about to overwrite a demo with the same name
• Added a checkbox option to the recorder UI to auto fill demo name
• Show the demo UI whilst recording when in debug camera
• Wire slack bound to the mouse wheel directly instead of next slot/previous slot
• Relaxed the seismic sensor distance checks to mitigate wall thickness
• 'pipette' command can now copy items skin
• Optimized electric heaters light
• Updated fluid combiner and fluid splitter destruction sound
• Added 'spawnview' command to spawn entity at the position and orientation of the camera
• Pressing R to reset debug cam now reset roll immediately regardless of any camlerp value
• Debug camera can now save any depth of field aper, blur, squeeze and barrel values
• Added 'triggerevent' server command to trigger any event by name (airdrop, cargo, patrol heli etc)
• Also added 'killallevents' to instantly kill any ongoing event
• Set the device ID config UI input field to alphanumeric, so it behaves like computer station and ignore any special characters

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That's all there is to know about the latest Rust patch notes for July 2024 update. For more news and guides, stay tuned to Sportskeeda's MMO Section.

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