# Rust STAY ALERT - Product: Rust (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game) - Vendor: Facepunch Studios - Date: 2024-08-01 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/252490/view/4366887026473028521 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game/releases/2024-08-01-stay-alert What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add Tin Can Alarm, a new primitive trap made from hanging tin cans that triggers when its wire is crossed and alerts nearby players with a loud clatter - **changed** — Bush rustle sounds are now audible to players around you, with slower movement producing quieter sounds than running - **changed** — Hot air balloon tarp rustles are now audible to nearby players and operate the same way as bush sounds - **changed** — Dropped items in water now sink more realistically, slow down, get shifted by currents, and emit bubbles to make them easier to find - **changed** — Ziplines now pick the furthest possible destination instead of the closest - **changed** — Increase maximum zipline length from 150m to 185m - **changed** — Ziplines can now terminate at higher points on powerline structures and prioritize these destinations to reduce climbing required - **fixed** — Prevent players from getting dismounted by trees when on a zipline - **changed** — NPC vendor price changes now operate in real time instead of in-game time - **changed** — NPC vendor prices now change every 5 real time hours instead of every 15 minutes - **changed** — Trains can now break through barricades deployed too close to the tracks - **added** — Hold the Crouch key while driving a bike to perform a faster turn - **changed** — Sidecar bikes now drive more like regular motorbikes - **added** — Horses can now enter terrain holes including train tunnels and the launch site ramp - **added** — Switching gun firemode now plays a sound - **changed** — Storage Adaptors attached to boxes now allow players to walk through them - **added** — Can now turn off the blood on screen overlay when getting hurt - **added** — The last entered code lock input is now saved between sessions ##### TIN CAN ALARM This month, we're adding the Tin Can Alarm, a new primitive trap made from hanging tin cans. Crossing its wire will trigger the trap and cause a loud clatter, alerting anyone nearby to your presence. You can deploy it anywhere from your base to inside monuments. Use it strategically to cover access points and defend your positions. ##### REPLICATED BUSH SOUNDS This month, we are changing how the classic bush rustle sounds work. Bush sounds will now be audible to players around you. Just like with footsteps, you now need to take care of when you make noise in bushes. Going slower through a bush makes a quieter sound than when running through it. This change will also cause the rustles made in hot air balloon tarps to be audible to players nearby, and operates in the same way as the bushes. ##### UNDERWATER ITEMS Dropped items that end up in bodies of water will now sink more realistically instead of just dropping like they are still falling through air. As well as slowing down and getting shifted around by currents they will also emit some bubbles as they move and when they hit the ocean floor. This should make finding these items a little bit easier. ##### ZIPLINE IMPROVEMENTS We’ve made several changes to the powerline zipline system this month to make it a bit more pleasant to use. - Ziplines will now pick the furthest possible destination instead of the closest - We’ve increased the maximum length a zipline can run from 150m to 185m - Ziplines can now terminate at a higher point on the powerline structure and will pick these higher destinations when possible, reducing the amount of climbing required to continue the zipline. - You can no longer get dismounted by trees when on a zipline. We already had several systems in place to prevent trees spawning in zipline paths, but it still happened very rarely. These changes should result in longer, higher ziplines that are safer to use. ##### NPC VENDOR PRICE CHANGES After looking over the data from last months wipe, it was clear that the dynamic vendor pricing system wasn’t operating as well as it could have. It tended to drop to 50% off all items relatively quickly in the wipe. We’ve made a couple of changes this month: - Price changes now operate in real time rather than based on in-game time. This should be more understandable and will work correctly on servers that manipulate in-game time. - Price changes now take place every 5 real time hours. Last month the prices changed every 15 minutes in real time by default, so this will make the prices change much more slowly. As usual we’ll keep an eye on this and make changes going forwards. ##### QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES ##### Trains break barricades Trains can break through barricades that are deployed too close to the tracks. ##### Bike fast turns Hold the Crouch key while driving to perform a faster turn ##### Sidecar bike physics Sidecar bikes now drive more like regular motorbikes. ##### Horse terrain holes Horses can now enter terrain holes - Train tunnels, the launch site ramp etc. ##### Fire mode switch Switching your gun firemode will now play a sound. ##### Storage Adaptors collision Can now walk through Storage Adaptors attached to boxes. ##### Hurt screen overlay toggle Can now turn off the blood on screen when getting hurt. ##### Saved code lock input The last entered code is now saved between sessions. ##### SHOCKBYTE X RUST - PARTNERED SERVER HOSTING We're extremely excited to be partnering with (https://shockbyte.com/partner/SBRUST) for managed server hosting rental! 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