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Breach and Clear - News - Rust menu news companion mobile Merch Store Redeem Careers Buy Rust Your browser does not support the video tag. This month's update brings you Monument Blockers, Breakable Attack Heli Armour, HQM Nodes, Upkeep Group Scaling, various item buffs, and QoL and balance changes, as well as many performance updates and much more! 03 September 2026 DEVBLOG Monument blockers Martyn Chapman Monument blockers are a new obstacle we're adding to monuments with red keycard puzzle rooms.

They’re intended to slow down early access to the loot at these monuments. They require a significant amount of damage to destroy but once destroyed they won't respawn. You may also find a handful of weaker monument blockers which can be destroyed by melee. We don't think this will have an enormous impact on progression speed but it might make the early wipe a little more interesting for the first joiners. In the event they aren’t destroyed within the first 24 hours, they will start to decay.

thumb_up 435 thumb_down 150 Upkeep group scaling Jarryd Campi Starting this month Tool Cupboards will now apply an additional upkeep tax based on the number of players that are in a base.

When calculating that number we consider a few things: Any players directly authed on the TC Any players that have been deauthed from the TC in the last 24 hours Any players that are authed on a code lock in the base (including guest code access) Any players that were deauthed from a code lock in the last 24 hours The upkeep rates are tiered based on number of players: First 4 players incur no tax Next 6 players incur 2% tax per player Subsequent players incur 4% tax per player This means a TC with 6 players authed will have +4% upkeep, a TC with 12 players will have +20% upkeep.

There is a maximum tax