# Rust COMMON GROUND - Product: Rust (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game) - Vendor: Facepunch Studios - Date: 2026-07-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/252490/view/679628250084806242 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rust-game/releases/2026-07-02-common-ground 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 apartment complex monument with rentable rooms at various price points, each offering different perks like storage and furnaces - **added** — Add master key item on the island that unlocks any occupied apartment room for 5 minutes - **added** — Add rentable shops in the apartment complex marketplace where players can purchase and operate storefronts - **added** — Add 2x resource gather multiplier in Softcore game mode for ore, wood, food, and animal loot - **added** — Add raid windows system in Softcore mode restricting raids to 6 PM - 9 PM server local time by default - **added** — Add Tool Cupboard raid blocking system outside raid windows that protects building blocks and doors - **added** — Add clan system with separate chat channel, clan nameplates on players, and clan member locations on map - **added** — Add Clan Tables for creating and managing clans - **added** — Add new sprinting animation for two-handed projectile weapons and rifles - **added** — Add dynamic animation system for one-handed melee weapons starting with the Hatchet - **added** — Add Glowing Wallpaper Pack with 27 luminous wallpapers for walls, floors, and ceilings - **changed** — Change apartment room rental to require regular scrap payments in slot next to door or face eviction - **changed** — Change shop ownership system to allow takeover after 6 hours with escalating cost multipliers - **changed** — Change Jobs system to Jobs 3 as default with Jobs 2 to be removed - **removed** — Remove clan system from hardcore mode - **fixed** — Fix Tool Cupboard requiring 1 hour age before it can block raids to prevent system abuse ##### APARTMENT COMPLEX The apartment complex is a new monument that allows players getting started with a wipe to find a place to call home. Simply talk to the receptionist in the lobby to get started and rent a room. There are options for every budget, from the basement to the penthouse. Different room types come with different perks, like more storage, furnaces and more. Once you've rented a room you'll need to insert scrap into the slot next to your door, otherwise you'll be evicted and all of your possessions will be seized. There is a master key available somewhere on the island - find it and you can unlock access to any occupied room in the apartments for 5 minutes. Need a hint as to what room to burgle? There might be a guard in the basement who has more information. ##### RENTABLE SHOPS The new apartment complex monument features a small marketplace of shops. Each shop can be purchased and run by players, allowing you to sell your wares to the residents of the apartment building. To get started, simply approach the shop and interact with the contract hanging out front, and you'll get a breakdown of how much it costs. This includes a non-refundable upfront scrap fee as well as a per-hour (real-time) scrap cost. You will need at least 12 hours of rent available to open the store. Once open, you can modify the sale listings and adjust stock levels like any other Vending Machine. These shops cannot be accessed by drone, but you can modify the sign above the shop to add some personal flair. All of the shops already taken? After a shop has been open for 6 hours, you may take it over, but you will pay x2 on both the upfront scrap cost and per-hour rent. This will continue to escalate (3x, 4x, etc) if someone else takes over the shop after 6 hours until eventually someone runs out of rent and the shop (and cost multiplier) resets. If a shop is taken over or closes and it has your belongings in its inventory, you may return to the shop to retrieve them. Just interact with the shop to pick up your items. These items will only last 24 hours though, so be quick! Be warned, the master key can also be used on these stores so your items could be stolen if you try and store valuable goods. ##### SOFTCORE UPDATES We've made some new changes to the Softcore game mode. ##### **Accelerated Progression** There's now a **2x multiplier** on resource gather amounts. This works pretty much as you'd be used to on modded servers, giving you extra ore, wood, food and animal loot. ##### **Raid Windows** It's hard to handle raids for more casual players. To combat this, we've created pre-defined time windows where you are allowed to raid each other. By default, raids can only happen between the hours of **6 PM - 9 PM**. This is set via your server's local time, so it's the same time zone for everyone. E.g. 6 PM local time no matter where you are. During a Raid Window, everything is fair game, it's regular rust. Outside of those times, Tool Cupboards 'project' the raid blocking system, so you need to be inside a TC radius to be protected outside of the window. During this time, building blocks and doors cannot be raided: walls, floors, roofs, doors, ladder hatches, etc. Deployables can still be attacked, as can a Tool Cupboard (if it's lying unprotected). A Tool Cupboard must be at least 1 hour old to be able to block raids. This means a young TC can be raided regardless of whether the raid window is on or not. Helping prevent misuse of the system. Server Owners have been given a bunch of ConVars to tweak this. ##### CLAN TABLE Clans are a more advanced version of teams where you can have more members with different roles/permissions. There is a separate clan chat channel and announcement/MoTD text for communicating with clan members. Clans can be created and managed at Clan Tables. You can now see clan names on player nameplates. You'll also see your clan members' locations on the map if they're nearby. The clan system is _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/252490/view/679628250084806242]_