Crafting update

Cooking 2.0: Fine Dining in the Wasteland

Say goodbye to shoving raw pumpkins down your throat—Cooking 2.0 is here. This update completely revamps Rust’s food system, introducing the Cooking Workbench, where you can craft actual meals instead of just incinerating bear meat in a campfire like a caveman.

These new dishes offer buffs and benefits beyond the usual “it stops you from starving” routine. And to make it feel even fancier, you’ll get visual and audio feedback—watch your food sizzle, brown, and actually look edible for once.

Cooking Workbench

🔥 Use: Cook advanced dishes like a true Rust gourmet
💰 Cost: 200 Metal Fragments, 200 Stone, 100 Wood
⏳ Craft Time: 30 seconds
⚙️ Requires: Workbench Level 1

All New Recipes

Rust’s new cooking system isn’t just for show—these pies actually do something useful. Forget eating burnt chicken for survival; now you can bake your way to an advantage.

🥧 Chicken Pie – Green thumb mode: +5% better genes chance for 4 minutes when planting seeds. Your weed farm just got more efficient.

🍏 Apple Pie – Night owl special: 2 minutes of 100% better night vision—because running into a bear in the dark is never fun.

🎃 Pumpkin Pie – Loot goblin fuel: +5% chance for 5 minutes to get double loot when picking up collectibles. More junk, more problems.

🍖 Hunter’s Pie – Sweaty farmer’s dream: 150% increased harvesting for 5 minutes. Time to deforest the map.

🐟 Fish Pie – For the one guy who actually fishes: +50% fishing strength for 5 minutes—faster reeling, less rod breaking.

🦴 Survivor’s Pie – Get the most out of your kills: 150% more loot from animal and human corpses. Yes, that includes the guy you just headshot.

🐷 Pork Pie – Buffed metabolism: Heals 3x faster over time for 5 minutes. Now you can tank a few extra bullets before inevitably dying.

🐻 Bear Pie – Teatime with a twist: Doubles tea effects, but halves their duration. Choose wisely.

🍞 Bread Loaf – It’s... bread: Small boost to health and hunger. Not glamorous, but it beats starving.

Chicken Coops: Rust’s Newest Farm Simulator

Chickens are no longer just walking drumsticks—now you can raise them, pet them, and force them into an egg-laying empire with the new Chicken Coop.

Here’s the deal:
🐔 Feed them grains and veggies to keep them happy. Happy chickens = more eggs.
🥚 Egg economy – Wild chickens now randomly drop eggs, which you can collect and hatch in your coop. Takes about 2 minutes, so you won’t be twiddling your thumbs for long.
✋ Pet your chickens – No, seriously. Give them some love and they’ll lay more eggs. Just don’t bother them while they sleep.
🚫 Neglect them and suffer – No food? No pets? No eggs. You monster.

Chicken Coop Stats

🏠 Use: Keeps chickens in one place, produces eggs
💰 Cost: 200 Wood
⏳ Craft Time: 30 seconds
⚙️ Requires: Workbench Level 1

Beekeeping: Because Rust Needed More Ways to Suffer

Rust’s latest update adds beekeeping, because clearly, wild animals, radiation, and shotgun-wielding psychopaths weren’t enough to kill you. Now, you can harvest honey, raise bees, and weaponise them against your enemies. Sweet, right?

🐝 How It Works

🌳 Harvest Beehive Nucleus – Found in natural beehives on trees. Warning: the bees aren’t thrilled about eviction.
🏠 Crafted Beehives – Use a nucleus to start your own honey production. Free food, at the cost of your sanity.
🤝 Beehive Interaction – Manage them, harvest honey, or just get stung repeatedly—it’s up to you.

Weapons-Grade Bees: The Bee Grenade

Ever wanted to throw a screaming jar of angry insects at someone? Now you can. Bee Grenades unleash a swarm of pure misery, forcing enemies to flail around like idiots. Counter it with smoke or fire, unless you enjoy becoming a human pincushion.

🐝 Beehive Stats
💰 Cost: 200 Wood
⏳ Craft Time: 30 seconds
⚙️ Requires: Workbench Level 1

💣 Bee Grenade Stats
💰 Cost: 1 Beehive Nucleus + 30 Cloth
⏳ Craft Time: 10 seconds
⚙️ Requires: Workbench Level 1

Flower Power

Rust’s wasteland just got a bit fancier—orchids, roses, sunflowers, and even wheat now spawn naturally across the map. Right now, they don’t do much besides exist, but expect them to be useful in future updates. Maybe they’ll be used in crafting. Maybe they’ll just make your base look slightly less depressing. Who knows?

For now, you can pick them, admire them, or completely ignore them while you hunt down your next victim. Either way, the real action is happening on Vanilla Main - EU, freshly wiped and ready for whatever nonsense you bring to it: rustadia.com/servers.

New Planters: Farming Just Got Easier

If you were hoping to stack infinite planter boxes and create a vertical farm empire—bad news. This update adds three new planter types while also killing off planter stacking. Adjust your sweaty berry farm meta accordingly.

🌱 Triangle Planter Box – Holds 4 seeds. Fits neatly into corner spaces.
🔺 Triangle Rail Road Planter – Holds 4 seeds, because why not.

No more stacking means farm layouts actually matter now, so get creative—or just steal someone else’s design.

Crafting Quality Tea: Because RNG is for Suckers

Tired of rolling the dice when crafting armor? Crafting Quality Tea is here to give you a fighting chance. Drink it before crafting, and it’ll guarantee at least one armor insert slot, skipping that pesky 50% roll. More slots = better protection = slightly longer survival before someone door camps you.

Other New Teas: Because Freezing to Death is Overrated

Rust’s new temperature-regulating teas help you survive the elements—because apparently, layering clothes just wasn’t cutting it.

🔥 Warming Tea – Keeps you toasty in the cold. Perfect for snow biome campers and roof-dwelling crossbow goblins.
❄️ Cooling Tea – Stops you from boiling alive in deserts and volcanic regions. Ideal if you enjoy sweating your way through a fight.

Will they save you from bullets? No. But at least you won’t die from hypothermia while getting shot.

The Hopper: Rust’s Very Own Loot Vacuum

Sick of manually picking up items like some kind of pleb? The new Hopper is here to do the dirty work for you. This little storage adaptor automatically vacuums up any dropped items within a 1.5m radius—perfect for automated sorting, catching furnace output, or hoarding junk without lifting a finger.

Hopper Stats:

🛠 Function: Sucks up any dropped items when powered
💰 Cost: 100 Metal Fragments
⏳ Craft Time: 30 seconds
⚙️ Requires: Workbench Level 1

Armour Inserts: Because Dying Less is Always Nice

Rust’s new armour inserts let you upgrade your gear with extra protection, because sometimes a burlap sack just isn’t enough. When crafting clothes with armour slots, you’ll have:

🛡️ 50% chance for 1 slot
🛡️ 30% chance for 2 slots
🛡️ 20% chance for 3 slots
🍵 Drinking Quality Tea? Guarantees at least 1 slot. Fancy.

Types of Armour Inserts:

🔥 Asbestos Armour Insert – Protects against heat. Probably terrible for your lungs.
☢️ Lead Armour Insert – Blocks radiation. Great if you like looting Launch Site without melting.
🪵 Wooden Armour Insert – Better against bullets and melee. Because wood totally stops bullets.
🔩 Metal Armour Insert – Stronger than wooden, but heavier. Probably won’t save you from an AK spray, but hey, every little helps.

Premium Servers: Pay to Play, Stay to Slay

Launching with today’s update, Premium Servers come with an entry fee of $15—determined by the value of your Rust Steam inventory. The goal? To keep the riff-raff out. After analysing millions of accounts, the numbers don’t lie: most banned players have dirt-cheap inventories (less than $20), while the real Rust degenerates—those who stick around—tend to have a bit more in their digital stash.

This new system filters out the usual suspects, giving you a cleaner, slightly less infuriating Rust experience. Want in? Look for “Premium Servers” in the server list.

If you’d rather embrace the true Rust chaos, our brand-new Vanilla Main - EU server is fresh this wipe. No buy-in, just pure suffering. Join the madness: rustadia.com/servers.