A Rust rail community is coming, and the primary iteration of it lands as a part of the April replace. This month’s replace additionally introduces powerline ziplines to make it simpler to get across the map, new achievements to earn, additional enhancements to lighting on monuments, and extra.

Rust’s month-to-month replace arrives on April 7 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7pm BST. Additional particulars will hit the official web site on the identical time, however for now, the devs have supplied a press launch with early data on the massive options. The largest is the brand new procedural rail community. As of this replace, “Any map measurement 4250 or bigger ought to have a single railway within the form of a hoop going across the complete island. That is only a tech check / proof of idea for now, so there’s no official gameplay aspect to it but. Please report any bizarre wanting areas you may encounter. Within the close to future, you’ll be able to count on drivable above-ground trains.”

You’ll additionally discover new platforms and ziplines atop sure powerlines on procedurally generated maps. These will allow you to shortly journey alongside the powerline chain, or to related monuments.

The monument lighting replace gives some additional visible like to the lighthouse, fishing villages, stables, excavator, and the arctic analysis base. The devs say the airfield is the true star, nevertheless. “Right here now we have added not solely new lights and darkening volumes, but in addition tweaked some supplies and added plenty of new prop dressing to carry it to the identical stage of high quality as our newer monuments.”

The devs are additionally persevering with to check Steam Networking options, which ought to – finally – provide improved efficiency, although they’re nonetheless disabled by default proper now. “Within the medium time period,” the devs say, “we hope to change all servers to Steam Networking by default.”

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