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Rust Adds Farmable Livestock, Milk Processing and Biofuel in October Update

Facepunch says the new systems create persistent farming value chains that can shift server economies and slow early-game vehicle dominance.

Overview

  • The October livestock update, released in early October, introduces farmable cows and sheep that players can capture, pen, breed and harvest for dung, meat, bones, leather, milk and wool.
  • Milk can be refrigerated for four hours then skimmed to produce skimmed milk and cream, with cream acting as a stronger consumable that can boost tea effects and other recipes.
  • A new biofuel generator lets players convert raw or spoiled meat and other organic matter into low-grade fuel, with the device requiring manual stirring at regular intervals to produce fuel.
  • Facepunch added a Stable vendor that buys animals and wool with randomized offers that players can reject up to three times before a 15-minute cooldown, and animals use a genetics system so offspring inherit traits that affect value and output.
  • The patch also expands locked loot rooms at monuments, applies heavy fuse decay scaling to protect low-population servers, requires helipad repairs to unlock vehicle vendors after wipes, adds decorative wildlife, and offers a temporary option to switch to a custom render pipeline ahead of a mandatory Halloween update later in October.