Rust Devblog 236 ("10 Years of Rust") features significant visual and mechanical updates, popular on specialized community servers. Key strategies include building secure, air-locked bases with tool cupboards, utilizing
The AI update is creepy. Scientists now exhibit "herd behavior." If you kill one, the others will run for cover, flank you, and drag wounded allies behind cover . They also despawn the dead bodies to prevent you from farming meds.
Here is the complete breakdown of everything added, changed, and broken in Rust’s April 2024 update.