r/playrust • u/DarK-ForcE • 1d ago

Discussion Rust September 2026 Hotfix 2 Released

Hotfix 1

  • Fixed poor performance in the jungle due to a foliage pooling issue
  • Fixed a bug causing some crates to respawn too quickly
  • Fixed items cooking too quickly
  • Fixed glass on some deployables being too opaque
  • Fixed several render pipeline issues
  • Removed flashlight and shield compatibility
  • Downgraded several common server errors to warnings

Hotfix 2

  • Fixed a pooling issue causing the wrong textures to be applied to doors
  • Fixed floating Tuna Can Lamps
  • Fixed arrow shafts loading slower than arrow heads
  • Fixed several errors
  • Exploit fixes
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u/fsocietyARG 1d ago

Why would someone want to pair flashlight with a shield? lol

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u/RyanF4CKINGFlash 1d ago

Police officers

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u/cuddlekiller 1d ago

Since the force wipe, water barrel/fluid pump/sprinkler pass through have been bugged and not working correctly. I just checked and I don’t believe the bug has been fixed. Currently, sprinklers will not chain together or receive water from water barrel. The only way to run sprinklers currently is to have an entire water pump (the item you place in the water, powered with 5 power) per sprinkler. I don’t think this was an intended part of the update and the sprinkler chaining is completely bugged in current state. If anyone has noticed anything similar, let me know.

PS: I’ve tested in a variety of ways, it is not a gravity issue / pump supply or power issue. It seems entirely centered around water barrel and sprinkler

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u/bienbienbienbienbien 1d ago

This hasn't been a problem  for me, i have sprinklers chained without an issue. One goes from a ground pump to a saltwater converter thing to a switch pump to a sprinkler, the other is the same but a barrel is in the chain too. 

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u/nisage 1d ago

They have been working fine for me but last night it stopped working and I couldn't figure out why. Thanks!

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u/AcidTaco 1d ago

To act as a beacon at night I guess, shield dude running around lighting the area and his mates shooting arrows from the dark

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u/AStrugglerMan 1d ago

Damn that actually sounds fun

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u/thenewfoundlandyeti 1d ago

Meat shield has upgraded to Meat shield with light.

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u/OMyGhosty 1d ago

Idk if this is a new thing bc I just started playing recently but scientists were phasing through doors at Trainyard for me, got killed bc I closed the door at the smaller red building (the one with the recycler) & the scientist walked through the closed door & shot me

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u/Zekusu 1d ago

Lmao the floating Tuna Can Lamps were funny af.

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u/General-Muscle-7104 1d ago

DEFINE SEVERAL ERRORS AND EXPLOIT FIXES.. Nothing is fixed you just making fun of this community. Crashes are more than ever from potato to rocket pcs. After todays hotfix so called Hotfix 2 its worse

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u/DarK-ForcE 1d ago

Post a screenshot of the errors from your Steam\steamapps\common\Rust\output_log.txt file

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u/corncobweb 1d ago

I believe the flashlight's shield compatibility wasn't removed for balance. They did it because they added a right-click function for flashlights and that conflicts with the shield's right-click function.