“How do I craft a backpack?” is usually the fifth query I ask when beginning a brand new survival recreation, following “How do I craft an axe?” and “The place can I discover water?” and “How do I make a campfire?” and the all-important “What the hell was that noise?”
That is as a result of when carrying assets and meals and instruments and junk round in your pockets you are inclined to run out of room fairly rapidly, so a backpack that offers you additional stock slots is a necessary early recreation survival staple.
Besides in Rust, that’s. The multiplayer survival recreation has been round for 10 lengthy honkin’ years and it is solely now simply getting round to including backpacks. Which is not to say the idea simply occurred to the builders: in accordance with Rust guru Shadowfrax, backpacks had been first proposed about six years in the past, it simply took some time for them to really get right here.
Higher late than by no means! Facepunch Studios’ newest devblog says backpacks will arrive on February 1, however if you cannot wait that lengthy they will be accessible for testing on Rust’s staging department subsequent week. Good.
That is not the one factor coming to Rust in 2024. Updates will embrace new monuments, a tutorial for brand new gamers, a clan system, and one thing else that is nearly as thrilling as backpacks: bikes. There’s additionally a brand new biome within the works, procedurally generated caves, and different options deliberate for the following 12 month-to-month updates.
Now for the unhappy information. Pets, which had been teased again in 2022, will not be coming to Rust anytime quickly.
“In case you observe our public commits web page, you may know we labored on pets for a number of months and out of the blue stopped. For a number of causes, we halted this mission, and it’ll not be launched this yr,” Facepunch producer Alistair McFarlane says. “Our objective remains to be to have pets in Rust, however we now have a number of obstacles to beat first.”
Apparently Rust’s AI system wants enchancment earlier than you may achieve a furry follower, and the studio is recruiting for an AI programmer to assist. Perhaps in 2025 we’ll lastly get to romp by Rust with Rover.