Soft Refresh Update

Ah yes, it’s that time again. Facepunch is smashing the big red button today (April 3rd), which means every Rust server is going full amnesia. Wipe day’s upon us. Whether you were thriving or just vibing, it’s all getting yeeted back to the stone age—ready or not.

Wipe hits with the update, as usual. If you’re new, just know your base, your loot, and your pride will all be reset. If you’re not new, well... you knew better than to get attached.

Softcore Now Comes With Training Wheels

Softcore’s been tweaked again. Don’t worry, if you play on actual servers where people offline you at 4am for no reason, this doesn’t apply to you. But for the gentle souls in Softcore:

• Deployables drop half their junk when destroyed, and leave a weird “corpse” behind. You can fix it to get the rest back—locks included. Or just pick it up and fix it at a repair bench, where the locks don’t survive. Because logic.
• TCs now leave a corpse too. You can repair it if you’re authorised. If you’re not? Congrats on having a new expensive rock.
• No more reclaim terminals. When you respawn, you auto-get half your belt, inventory, and backpack. The rest’s chilling on your corpse. Unless you die in building priv or F1 kill yourself—then it’s all gone. Poof. Should’ve made better life choices.
• Bullets slap 25% less hard now. Try not to die slower.
• Team size hard capped at four, including TC/turret authorisations. You and three mates. That’s it. No Zerg Olympics this time.
• Door upkeep is now its own thing. Doors want rent too, apparently.
• Food/tea buffs stick around after death.

Device Range Visuals – Fancy Circles for Base Nerds

You can now see exactly how far your traps and gadgets reach. Turrets, shotgun traps, heaters, the whole electric nightmare. No more guesswork or “surely this covers the front door” regrets.

It’s a visual aid, not a miracle. Because nothing says "pro base builder" like placing a flame turret and not incinerating your own front door for once.

Don’t like glowing rings in your base? You can turn it off in the menu. Go full vanilla guessing game. Your choice.

Bees Are Still A Thing

Bees are getting some attention this patch, and they’re not messing around:

• Bee swarm damage has been balanced so you can grief people just the right amount.
• Bees no longer cause bleeding. Because realism.
• You can now keep hives warm in the snow with heaters. Buzz buzz, baby.
• Hives now have status panels so you can tell if your honey’s vibing or if it’s depressed.
• Inventory logic got a fix too. Because nothing says Rust like checking your bees every 20 minutes to make sure they didn’t bug out.

Other Bits Worth Knowing

• Jungle update tease coming.
• Hints of a Naval update, so get ready to sink something.
• Bread now heals over time. Welcome to slow carbs.
• Discord trophy gives you comfort. Finally, validation.
• Easter event coming with horse costumes. Yes, it’s weird. No, we’re not explaining it.
• Premium server tweaks.
• A bunch of fixes: hats, bows, radios, snowmobiles, miniguns, and a very confused hatchet exploit.

TL;DR:
The world burns down Thursday. Rustadia servers wipe clean.
Join us at rustadia.com/servers and discord.gg/rustadia to rebuild, revenge, and respawn naked on the beach again.