Rust's July update in detail: apartments, player-run shops, clans and raid windows

The Apartment Complex

The Apartment Complex is a new monument where players starting a wipe can rent a home. Talk to the receptionist in the lobby and pick a room, from the basement to the penthouse; better rooms come with perks such as more storage and furnaces. Rent is paid in scrap into the slot next to your door. Stop paying and you are evicted and your belongings are seized.

The master key

Somewhere on the island there is a master key that opens any occupied apartment for 5 minutes. A guard in the basement may have a hint about which room is worth it.

Shops you can rent

The monument has a small market of shops that players can buy and run. A contract at the front shows the cost: a non-refundable upfront scrap fee plus rent per real-time hour, and you need at least 12 hours of rent paid to open. Listings and stock work like a vending machine, drones cannot reach the shops, and you can change the sign. A shop that has been open for 6 hours can be taken over by someone else at double the fee and rent.

Clans

Clans are a larger version of teams, with more members and roles with different permissions, their own chat channel and a message of the day. They are created and managed at Clan Tables. Clan names show on nameplates and nearby clan members appear on your map. Clans are disabled in Hardcore mode.

Softcore: 2x gathering and raid windows

Softcore mode now gathers at 2x. Raiding is limited to raid windows, by default 6 PM to 9 PM server time. Inside the window it is normal Rust; outside it, building blocks and doors within a Tool Cupboard's range cannot be raided.

New running and melee animations

Sprinting with rifles and most two-handed guns has new animations: the right arm lifts the weapon and the rest of the body runs naturally. One-handed melee weapons are moving to the same system, starting with the hatchet.

Also in this update

• The skin you have picked is greyed out in the skin list.
• Vending machines and fridges support auto-sorting through storage adaptors.
• Weapon charms: cosmetic accessories that attach to more than 55 ranged weapons, set while crafting or at a repair bench at no cost.
• The Metal Shopfront is this month's workshop skinnable.

Source: Facepunch devblog rust.facepunch.com