Rust Jungle Update: New Biome, Wildlife, and Features
Jungle Biome
Rust introduces its first new biome since the original procedural world generation: the Jungle! This lush environment covers parts of the temperate coastal area where new players spawn, featuring flatter terrain, higher river density, and thicker foliage.
The Jungle biome boasts a variety of new foliage, including bushes like bromeliads and monstera, undergrowth plants such as arrowroot and calathea, and new trees like trumpet trees, jungle palms, and sandbox trees. The massive kapok trees are a highlight, allowing players to climb and swing from them.
The dense jungle offers both danger and opportunity, with predators lurking and the potential for players to hunt their prey. The biome supports full base building, inviting players to embrace their inner Tarzan.
Vine Swinging
Explore the Jungle biome's trees covered in vines, which players can climb to reach new vantage points. Interactive vines allow players to swing between branches, traversing the jungle without touching the ground.
Vines can be shared among teammates by throwing them back. They also offer a quick, safe, and quiet descent to the jungle floor. Vines can be harvested for wood, but they will respawn after a while.
Jungle Remnants
Discover small jungle monuments like the Jungle Ziggurat and ancient jungle ruins, offering a glimpse into a forgotten past. These sites provide early-game loot and surprises for explorers.
Jungle Ruins
The Jungle Ruins are atmospheric monuments offering low-tier supplies and surprises, perfect for a quick exploration stop.
Tigers and Panthers
The jungle's dense foliage hides deadly predators like tigers and rare black panthers. Tigers are stealthy, striking only when sure to kill, but players receive in-game hints to avoid unfair ambushes.
Players should also be wary of black panthers and discover hidden tricks to outsmart these predators.
Crocodile
Rivers in the jungle are home to crocodiles, tough creatures that demand respect. While they seem slow, they can surprise players who underestimate them.
Like other predators, crocodiles have a hidden counterplay for savvy players.
Boomerang
Introducing the Boomerang, a new throwable weapon that returns to the player. Its fixed arc allows skilled players to master its timing and trajectory.
Blowpipe
The Blowpipe is a new early-game weapon offering silent, improvised attacks. It uses four types of darts: Wood, Scatter, Incapacitate, and Radiation, each with unique effects.
- Wood Dart – Basic, light damage.
- Scatter Dart – Short-range spread shot.
- Incapacitate Dart – Slows and obscures vision.
- Radiation Dart – Applies stackable radiation.
Snakes
Snakes add a stealthy threat in the jungle, with poison attacks that slow movement. Listen for their hiss to avoid bites, and skin them for Snake Venom to craft incapacitate darts.
Larger Rivers
Rivers across all biomes are now longer, wider, and deeper, requiring players to swim across. The jungle biome features a higher river density, adding more waterways to navigate.
Notable Changes
- Vending Machine Fridge – Prevents food spoilage when powered.
- Food Cooling Icon – Indicates when food is kept cool.
- Chicken Coop – Resized to fit on a foundation.
- Jungle Animal Meats – New themed meats added.
- Outbreak Scientist – New scientists roam the jungle.
- Leather Gloves – Now default BP, no sewing kit needed.
Jungle DLC Item Pack
The Jungle Pack DLC offers 20 new skins and items, including Bamboo Wall Shelves, Jungle Relic Assault Rifle, Cocoknight Wood Armor, and more. Available on Steam or in-game.
Twitch Drops are back! Earn Rust drops on any Rust channel with drops enabled until May 28th. Ensure you are synced on Facepunch's Twitch page.
Explosive Protection Fix
Explosive armor inserts now correctly match resistance numbers, with explosive protection capped at 75% to prevent excessive protection.
Hunter Vision
Hunter vision boost reveals scent trails of wild animals, aiding in tracking and hunting. Available for 15 minutes after eating big cat pie.
Jungle Building Skin
The new Jungle stone building skin is available for purchase, allowing players to change the appearance of their stone tier bases.
Wood Gloves
The new Wood Gloves complete the wooden armor set, offering early-game protection made from wood and cloth.
Server Profiler Updates
Experimental Streaming Support
The Server Profiler now supports streaming profiling telemetry into memory, with commands to control the process and generate data files.
Quiet Mode
New control for server-chat notifications during snapshots, allowing players to disable messages with the profile.quiet command.
Server Optimizations
Batched Player Processing
Physics query batching for player processing improves memory cache utilization and processing efficiency, offering performance benefits in certain scenarios.
Workshop Quality of Life Changes
Significant updates to the Rust Workshop enhance the quality of skins and fix various issues, including ambient occlusion maps and weapon-related fixes.
Player Server Occlusion
Server occlusion is now enabled by default, with options to disable it for custom maps or older hardware using startup parameters.
48 Hour Flash Sale
Celebrate the Jungle update with a 50% off flash sale on Rust and all Steam DLCs until 18:00 BST / 10:00AM PT. Gift a copy on Steam to new squad mates.
Impact on Players and Server Owners
The Jungle update introduces a wealth of new content and gameplay mechanics, offering fresh exploration and combat opportunities. Server owners should be aware of the new biome's impact on server performance and player strategies, while players can enjoy new weapons, wildlife, and customization options.
