# Rust The Crafting Update - Product: Rust (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game) - Vendor: Facepunch Studios - Date: 2025-03-06 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/252490/view/498314610455087589 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game/releases/2025-03-06-the-crafting-update 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 Cooking Workbench deployable that allows crafting new food recipes and mixing table recipes with stat and modifier bonuses - **added** — Add visual model for cooking food on all cooking deployables with real-time cooking - **added** — Add Chicken Coop deployable to hatch and care for chickens with Hunger, Thirst, Love, and Sunlight stats - **added** — Add food spoiling system where meat-based items spoil over time unless refrigerated or cooked - **added** — Add Triangle Planter that fits on triangle foundation or floor pieces and holds 4 seeds - **added** — Add Railroad version of Triangle Planter for Frontier DLC pack owners - **added** — Add natural Beehives spawning on Oak Trees that can be harvested for Honeycomb - **added** — Add player-placed Beehive deployable that produces Honeycomb from Beehive Nucleus - **added** — Add Bee Grenade weapon that creates pesky Bee Swarms on demand - **added** — Add new pie recipes with unique stat or modifier bonuses - **added** — Add Engineering Workbench with dedicated tech tree for water, electricity, and industrial systems - **changed** — Increase Drone range to 600m from 300m and double HP - **changed** — Reduce crafting cost of wooden Armor - **changed** — Replace all meat models and update many meat icons - **changed** — Reduce crafting times for over 40 items - **changed** — Halve Neon Signs power usage - **added** — Add option to hide genetic info when looking at plants - **added** — Add Premium Servers as experimental feature to filter out cheat users ##### COOKING WORKBENCH The cooking workbench is a new deployable that allows you to cook up some new food recipes. Mixing table recipes can also be crafted here. Many of the new items unlocked by the cooking workbench offer stat and modifier bonuses, so give them a taste! Cooking food now has a visual model on all cooking deployables and cooks in real time. ##### CHICKEN COOP The Chicken Coop is a new deployable that lets you hatch and care for your own flock of Chickens. To get started, you’ll need to find an Egg from a chicken in the wild. Wild chickens have a chance to drop an egg every minute as long as a player is nearby. Once you have an egg and build your coop, you can insert the egg and use the “Hatch” button to grow your first chicken. Each chicken has 4 stats - Hunger, Thirst, Love and Sunlight. HUnger and Thirst are pretty self explanatory, chickens will eat and drink from the item slots in the Chicken Coop. Love is satisfied by giving the chickens a little pat on the head every now and then, while Sunlight will be satisfied as long as your chicken coop is exposed to the sun. If these needs are met your chickens will gain health, whereas if they are neglected chickens will slowly start losing health and eventually dying. If your chickens are happy, they will start laying eggs in the Chicken Coop periodically. ##### FOOD SPOILING Meat based food items can now spoil over time, meaning you will need to store them in a Fridge or cook them before they become unusable. Raw meat will spoil after 6 hours, while cooked meat will spoil after 24 hours. The timer is reset when the meat is cooked and will be paused entirely as long as the meat is in a powered fridge. Any item that can spoil will have a timer on its item information panel that tells you how long you have, as well as showing an icon if the item is being refrigerated and not in danger of spoiling. ##### TRIANGLE PLANTER To maximise the space in your farms, we’re releasing a new version of the planter that can fit on a triangle foundation or floor piece. You can plant 4 seeds in it at once and it has the same max soil saturation as the small planter (3000). We’ve also added a matching Railroad version of the planter that will be unlocked for owners of the Frontier DLC pack. To better support planter skins we’ve made the existing Railroad planter and the new Triangle version proper skins, so they won’t appear as standalone items in the crafting menu and will be compatible with the Spray Can. ##### BEES Bees are useful to players in a number of ways. They can be farmed or turned into weapons. ##### Natural Beehives First: you have to find a Beehive in the wild. They have a chance to create a home on an Oak Tree. Next comes the harvesting, but don't expect them to take it lying down, once you destroy a hive the Bees will come. They can be a formidable opponent and can be countered by wearing a Hazmat Suit, throwing water over yourself, using a Flamethrower or using a Torch or another source of fire to prevent their attacks. After collecting some Honeycomb: Extract the honey from it in your inventory. Honey is useful in a number of cooking recipies, as well as a food in its own right. It can also be sold to Bandit Camp for some extra scrap. ##### Beehive When creating honey there is a chance for a Beehive Nucleus to spawn. This is required for our next item: The Beehive. This is a player placed deployable that allows you to make Honeycomb. Place your Nucleus inside. Each Nucleus will slowly level up, going from Grade 3 -> Grade 1. Grade 1 Honeycomb is the best, and will net players the most Honeycomb over time. Remember your Hazmat Suit whilst you're harvesting the Comb! Beehives have a few stats you need to manage: **Being Outside, Humidity and Temperature. ** - Beehives like to be Outside: this means that they have a few open air walls around them. - They don't like it when it rains: so keep them under shelter or have a fire running nearby _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/252490/view/498314610455087589]_