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Original22 Sep 2026

Original oil rig recyclers now reject drug processing

• Oil rig recyclers previously accepted raw drug items.
• They now recycle normal items only; existing drugs and diesel can still be taken back.
• Onshore drug processing and Life processing rules are unchanged.

Menus finish closing when offline characters die

• Offline character deaths could interrupt closing radio and activity menus.
• Menus now finish closing for starter supplies, farming and radio events when an offline character dies.

Crouched shots damage zombies

• Crouching could make zombies ignore damage from landed shots.
• Landed hits now damage zombies while stealth still controls detection.
• Original gamemode only.

Schematic collections wait for startup before saving

• An early server save could fail before collections finished loading.
• Collections now wait until their saved progress is loaded before saving.
• Applies to Original during startup and early shutdown.

Cars with fitted engines can be stored

• Fitted engine parts previously triggered the empty-storage warning.
• Cars can now be stored with their fitted parts; real cargo must still be removed.
• The same check applies when selling a car or storing it while its owner is offline.

Military bolt-action soldiers leave time between shots

• Standard military snipers could fire rapidly and engage from long range.
• They now wait at least three seconds between shots, fire within 75 metres and have wider aim spread.
• Health, damage and rewards are unchanged on Original.

Military Station defenders stay near the compound

• Soldiers could follow players beyond the compound and track movement after losing sight.
• Defenders now stay near the station, investigate the last known position and lose contact after ten seconds.
• Military Cache reinforcements follow the same limits.

Seed purchases keep your Outpost reputation

• Coca and poppy seeds previously spent Outpost reputation on every purchase.
• Seeds now cost cash only, so buying them keeps your Outpost rank and discounts.
• Original keeps the same Dealer Rank unlocks.

Planters can sow stored seeds

• Empty crop spaces previously needed seeds planted by hand.
• Insert an Auto-Planter and seeds to refill empty spaces beside your Auto-Harvester, with no extra fuel or power.
• Available on Original at Distributor rank for $6,500 or through schematics. Normal crops still need manual harvesting.

ATM deposits keep packed drugs in your inventory

• Packed drug bags could be taken as cash when depositing at an ATM.
• Only Cash is deposited now; cannabis, cocaine and heroin bags stay in your inventory.

Support answers follow the current growing rules

• Some support replies used outdated growing advice or repeated requests for details.
• The guides now cover indoor plants, Grow Lamps, packing presses and cash-only seeds.

Radio crates make room for bonus rewards

• A full helicopter or Bradley crate could lose its rolled radio or custom-item bonus.
• Original crates now keep their base loot and make room for the earned bonus.

Night Surge starts without the recurring sound

• The recurring Night Surge start sound interrupted players every sunset.
• Original keeps the on-screen announcement and Night Surge gameplay without the sound.

Called helicopters fight back and squads call one at a time

• Squads could call many helicopters together and shoot them safely because only one player was ever targeted.
• Each squad now fights one at a time, 30 minutes apart, and the helicopter fires back at anyone who damages it.
• Helicopter crates hold about half the rockets and C4. The schematic piece covers a squad's first three calls each wipe.

Big grow-ops now carry real running costs

• Large farms ran almost free: crafted planters, seeds that came back every harvest and one fuel per automated crop.
• Coca and poppy no longer return seeds; the Illegal Dealer sells packs of 50 for $2,250 and $4,500. Cannabis still returns seeds.
• Hydroponic Planters now cost $9,000 and Large Planter Boxes are shop-only. Small ones stay craftable.

Large Planter Boxes now cost $5,000

• Large Planter Boxes stayed at $4,000 while the other grow-op running costs rose.
• The Outpost Construction Store now sells them for $5,000, so expanding a farm is a real investment. Small planters stay craftable.

Auto-Harvesters now run on Harvester Filters

• Auto-Harvesters burned four Low Grade Fuel per crop no matter what was growing, and big farms crafted that fuel for free.
• They now spend Harvester Filters sold by the Illegal Dealer: 1 per cannabis crop, 5 per coca and 10 per poppy, taken only after the harvest is stored.
• Filters come in packs of 100 for $500. Fuel left in a planter is not used any more; take it out and add filters to restart the harvester.

TC tiers show your saved upgrades as your base grows

• Small bases could show tier 5 without saved upgrades, then appear to drop to tier 0 after expanding.
• Cupboards now show their saved tier and allow permanent cash or toolkit upgrades at any base size.
• Original keeps its small-base building allowance, and opening a new TC no longer counts as an upgrade.

Large Planter Boxes unlock at 500 reputation

• Large Planter Boxes needed 2,500 Outpost reputation, which only a handful of players reach each wipe.
• The Construction Store now sells them at 500 reputation, so most farms can expand for cash. Small planters stay craftable.

Life17 Sep 2026

Support tickets keep the details you already provided

• Follow-ups could ask again for a profile or keep checking the wrong reported player.
• Linked accounts and supplied profiles stay with the ticket, and corrected reports retain the updated player.

Unresolved reports can reach the support team

• A report could be marked for review without notifying the support team.
• Unresolved reports now send one notification without repeating it on follow-ups.

Report follow-ups keep their existing support handling

• An acknowledgement could send another review request after the support team had already replied.
• Follow-ups now respect existing support handling, while unhandled reports can still request help.

Plane crash flames leave bases and storage intact

• Plane crash fires could burn nearby bases and destroy stored items.
• Crash flames now spare buildings, doors, cupboards and boxes.
• Event fires stay contained while remaining dangerous to players.

A clearer handbook for both gamemodes

• The old help menu crowded topics and tutorial information together.
• Small topic buttons, larger headings and separate tutorials make /help easier to browse.
• Tutorial details use compact panels, readable line breaks and familiar green hover colours.

Correct timers and rewards in help

• Some handbook pages and tutorials quoted old patrol rewards, combat timers and capture instructions.
• Patrol payouts, schematic trade guidance, combat timers and capture instructions now reflect current settings.
• Six outdated recordings are silent; their corrected text cards and other tutorial voices remain available.

Oil rigs now have public recyclers

• Oil rigs had no public recycler for processing items before heading back to shore.
• A recycler now sits on each rig's open level-four deck, facing a clear approach.
• Both gamemodes keep their existing recycling rules.

Original17 Sep 2026

Standard vendor icons load safely

• Opening a vendor or viewing an item could trigger a client error.
• Standard items now use their normal icons, with custom artwork and skins preserved.

NPCs spawn clear of solid containers

• Airfield soldiers could appear inside closed crates and fire through them.
• Blocked spawn spots are rejected before and after placement on Original.
• Zombies finish rising from the ground before their final position is checked.

Zombie sounds are quieter and less frequent

• Zombie death cues could repeat on every kill and frequent screams overwhelmed nearby sounds.
• Zombie recordings are now about 8 dB quieter, with longer cooldowns and fewer death and attack cues.

Claim text matches the green button

• The schematic claim label used yellow text on its green button.
• CLAIM now uses the original schematic green, with the same claim costs and rewards.

Night Surge and vault alarms are quieter

• Night Surge, Horde cues and vault alarms could overpower nearby gameplay sounds.
• Event recordings now play at lower levels, with the largest reduction on the looping vault alarm.
• Event timing is unchanged.

Binocular marks call artillery immediately

• Releasing right-click could prevent a marked artillery strike from being called.
• New marks now call the strike immediately, while rejected marks keep your designator.
• Applies to Original Gamemode.

Schematic collections survive overlapping saves

• Schematic collections could disappear when a reconnect overlapped a save.
• Collected pieces now stay intact during saves, and the confirmed missing pieces have been restored.

Recyclers stop when their cycle ends

• Some recyclers could keep a processing cycle scheduled after being switched off.
• Stopping or emptying a recycler now cancels its cycle, with existing speeds and special recycler settings preserved.

Paid skill points can be reset for cash

• Skills could not be reset for carried cash.
• Reset Skills returns recorded paid points, starting at $2,500; bank money is not used.
• Earlier builds without purchase-cost records stay unchanged and cannot use paid resets.

VIP+ and Infected regain supply drops

• The supply-drop kit was unavailable to both ranks on Original.
• VIP+ and Infected can now access their supply-drop kit with /kit supplydrop.
• The usual kit cooldown still applies.

Failed guard summons preserve your cooldown

• Summoning guards inside a safe zone could start a two-hour cooldown without spawning any guards.
• Failed summons now explain where to retry, and the cooldown starts only after a guard appears.
• Original keeps its existing safe-zone spawn protection.

Outpost drone stations stay powered

• Drone stations could not accept orders on Original maps without a Power Plant.
• Outpost A, B and C now have permanent grid power, so players no longer need Power Plant fuses.
• An empty drone station still needs a few minutes to charge.

Sleeping bags support repeated respawns

• Sleeping bags previously disappeared after a single respawn.
• Bags now remain available for repeated use, with normal repair behaviour and respawn cooldowns.
• Existing ownership, tutorial placement progress and the Sleeper health benefit are preserved on Original.

A stronger start after linking your accounts

• The free starter kit previously offered fewer tools and supplies, and newcomers could not preview it before linking.
• New claimants now receive metal tools, a crossbow with 64 arrows, clothing, food, water, medicine and supplies for a first base.
• Link Discord and Steam, then use /claimkit on Original. Previous claims keep their existing limits, and a full inventory leaves the kit unclaimed.

Support tickets keep the details you already provided

• Follow-ups could ask again for a profile or keep checking the wrong reported player.
• Linked accounts and supplied profiles stay with the ticket, and corrected reports retain the updated player.

Hospital scavenging needs less radiation protection

• Hospital previously required the same radiation protection as military sites.
• Hospital radiation is now 10 while Military Station and Military Airfield remain at 25.
• Clear custom monuments stay clear on Original.

Custom sounds leave more room for nearby gameplay

• Long zombie sounds and loud narration could drown out nearby gameplay.
• Zombie combat clips, tutorial voices, Horde cues and vault alarms now play more quietly.
• Chase and tension clips end after five seconds, and vault alarms stop after thirty seconds.

Mute appeals can include current restriction details

• Mute appeals could lack current restriction details.
• Linked players can now have their current mute records checked during an appeal.
• Recorded positions are checked on demand, with missing evidence clearly identified.

Blocked items stay out of industrial crafting

• Industrial crafters previously accepted blueprints for items unavailable to hand crafting.
• Those items now reject industrial crafting and research without consuming ingredients.
• Restricted blueprints remain unlearnable on Original.

Report follow-ups keep their existing support handling

• An acknowledgement could send another review request after the support team had already replied.
• Follow-ups now respect existing support handling, while unhandled reports can still request help.

Revives complete without losing follow-up effects

• Revive confirmation could interrupt recovery effects and team revive credit.
• Revives now finish normally, and missing defibrillators show the required item.

Schematic progress survives interrupted saves

• Temporary connection failures could leave schematic progress waiting to save.
• Pending saves now recover across reconnects and reloads without repeating rewards.
• Original pauses schematic spending only while progress needs confirmation.

Plane crash flames leave bases and storage intact

• Plane crash fires could burn nearby bases and destroy stored items.
• Crash flames now spare buildings, doors, cupboards and boxes.
• Event fires stay contained while remaining dangerous to players.

Infected rewards arrive when membership activates

• Players previously needed another level before receiving earlier Infected rewards.
• Eligible rewards now arrive after activation or login without repeating paid levels.
• Catch-up covers the current 50-level cycle. Use /passhelp for the cutoff.

Call tiered helicopter and Bradley fights with vehicle radios

• Vehicle encounters previously relied on scheduled patrols; radios now let you start a fight when your squad is ready.
• Buy Patrol and Armoured radios from the Illegal Dealer, or find Gunship radios at the Smuggler. One radio pays entry with no activation fee.
• Stronger crates can drop another radio; Gunship fights can also drop a finished custom item. Public wreck alerts let other players counter.

Bradleys keep moving when combat begins

• Spotting a target could freeze the patrol with repeated movement errors.
• Original Bradleys now enter combat with a valid route and resume their patrol normally.

Original wipes at 3 pm Eastern on Thursdays

• Original previously wiped three hours later at 5 pm Central.
• Weekly and monthly wipes now begin at 3 pm Eastern, 2 pm Central and noon Pacific.
• Perth: Friday 3 am during US daylight saving, 4 am during US standard time.

A clearer handbook for both gamemodes

• The old help menu crowded topics and tutorial information together.
• Small topic buttons, larger headings and separate tutorials make /help easier to browse.
• Tutorial details use compact panels, readable line breaks and familiar green hover colours.

Night Surge begins with a darker warning siren

• The old start sound used a sharp alarm and infected screech.
• A deeper siren now builds more slowly before the second swell.
• The new sound plays when Night Surge starts on Original.

Current bank and cupboard instructions

• The handbook still described old bank entry steps and omitted cupboard upgrade supplies.
• Bank guidance now explains Vault Drills and Scraptown intel; cupboard guidance lists the supplies to bring.
• Schematic trade offers are correctly shown as refreshing every 4 hours.

Regular Bradley crates now guarantee a weapon

• Regular Bradley crates could contain no weapon and often dropped guns in poor condition.
• Every crate now gives a 60-100% condition weapon and two supply rolls, with more room for ammunition.
• C4 chance is now 25%, and explosive ammo has a 50% chance to drop about 50-100 rounds on Original.

Dealer ranks unlock farming stock and runners

• The old drug trade offered little farming progression or control over bag sales.
• The Illegal Dealer now brings drug sales, ranks, farming stock and runner management together in the laptop.
• Sales pay carried Cash, locked items explain their requirements, and the dealer still buys and sells normal goods.

Voiced farming guides explain the items and steps

• First Harvest and Auto-Harvester instructions previously had no matching narration.
• Both now explain planting, processing or planter installation with clear spoken steps and enough time to finish.
• Seven refreshed survival and Outpost recordings are also available on Original.

Dedicated presses pack processed drugs into bags

• Drug production previously relied on the old mixing system.
• Matching presses now pack 10 processed units into a bag over time, so you can start a batch and walk away.
• Raw crops, processed drugs, bags and farming equipment have distinct icons and clearer item guidance.

Planter harvesters collect ripe crops into built-in storage

• Collecting a large drug crop previously meant picking plants by hand.
• Add an Auto-Harvester and Low Grade Fuel to your planter to collect ripe crops automatically; full storage pauses it.
• Collected items split into normal inventory stacks. The Reaping Sickle also harvests a whole eligible planter.

Oil rigs now have public recyclers

• Oil rigs had no public recycler for processing items before heading back to shore.
• A recycler now sits on each rig's open level-four deck, facing a clear approach.
• Both gamemodes keep their existing recycling rules.

Life10 Sep 2026

Life highlights match the website yellow

• Menus, job descriptions and help messages previously used several different yellows.
• They now use Life's warm yellow, with warning, rarity and VIP distinctions preserved.

Retrieved vehicles need a clear spot

• Vehicles could be returned to spots without enough room around them.
• Garages now check the ground and surrounding space at roads and helipads. Unsafe spots leave your vehicle stored so you can move and try again.
• Retrieving no longer forces you into a seat. Board once your vehicle is ready.

Vehicle names and pictures fit their cards

• Helicopter names could spill outside their header, while vehicle pictures carried distracting backgrounds.
• Cars, aircraft, boats, submarines and the motorbike now have clear, background-free pictures.
• Vehicle names stay inside their cards, and saved vehicles use the matching new pictures.

Preview your Life kit before claiming

• Open Kits on the laptop to inspect cash, medical supplies and supply-drop contents.
• See cooldowns and inventory requirements before claiming.
• The linked starter panel shows account status and opens a copyable account-page link.

Open your kits with /kit

• The Kits icon no longer appears in the mobile menu.
• Use /kit to open the same kit previews and claim controls.

Kit messages match the server colours

• Kit help and notifications now use white text with yellow highlights.
• Commands, kit names and claim requirements stay the same.

Laptop updates follow the latest Discord posts

• Recent updates could stay on an old announcement or omit the latest changes.
• The laptop now checks for new posts every minute and reads their change details.
• Reopen the main menu to see the latest updates for your gamemode.

Laptop updates show a short summary

• Long update posts could fill the laptop main menu.
• The menu now shows three short highlights from the latest update.
• Read the full changelog at theprojectlazarus.com/updates.

Original10 Sep 2026

The daily login page is clearer

• The daily login page now shows your week streak, the seven-day progress and one claim button in a clear header, with day tiles below.
• Tap any day to see what it pays, and the Rewards tab button shows a dot when a daily reward is waiting.

Infected chain stages now show their task

• Each Infected chain stage now says what to do under its name, so a stage like Sky Dominance shows the objective instead of only the title.
• Mission text across daily, weekly and Infected missions uses the same yellow highlight as the rest of the laptop.

Wipe day moves to Thursday 5 pm Central

• Original now wipes every Thursday at 5 pm Central US time (11 pm UK), so the fresh map lands right as most players get home.
• The monthly big wipe stays on the first Thursday of the month at the same new time.

Survival Arc keeps counting infected kills without the noise

• Kills of ordinary NPCs never counted toward the Survival Arc, but each one was being recorded as a bad event on the server.
• Those kills are now skipped quietly, and infected kills keep counting toward Face the Infection exactly as before.

Original now uses the same warm yellow highlight as Life

• Every menu accent, in-game highlight, and important word in chat messages on Original now uses the softer yellow that Life already has.
• Nothing about the menus themselves or how anything plays has changed; only the colour did.

Dealer vehicles keep you above the water

• Some dealer spawn points could place purchased or rented vehicles underwater.
• Dealer spawning now checks the minimum height before placing you in the vehicle.

Survivor credit goes to players who reach dawn

• Night Surge credit could previously include players who had died or joined late.
• Stay alive and connected from the start of the surge until sunrise to earn survivor credit.

Retrieved vehicles stay above the road

• At Coastal, a retrieved minicopter could appear beneath a raised road and pull its pilot underground.
• Vehicles now use the road surface and need clear space around them. Unsafe retrievals leave the vehicle stored.
• Retrieving no longer forces you into a seat. Walk over and board once your vehicle is ready.

Bars, frames, and outlines on Original are back to their own colours

• The recent yellow change was meant for text only, but it also recoloured the level bar, panel frames, tints, and the drone outline.
• Those pieces now show their original colours again, while highlighted text, chat messages, and notifications keep the warm yellow.

Retreating soldiers stay vulnerable

• Soldiers could ignore your hits while regrouping and repeatedly retreat after the same losses.
• You can now damage retreating soldiers, and oil rig and cargo defenders hold smaller groups on their own decks.

The Original phone's money, level, and standing readout is back in its own green

• The readout strip at the top of the phone screen had picked up the new yellow along with the text highlights.
• Its cash, bank, level, and reputation icons and numbers now show the darker green they always used, the same as on Life.

Infected VIP garage slots are unlocked

• Infected VIP members were seeing their extra garage slots locked.
• Infected VIP now provides a second slot for cars, helicopters and boats on Original.

Vehicle names and pictures fit their cards

• Helicopter names could spill outside their header, while vehicle pictures carried distracting backgrounds.
• All 11 vehicles now have clear, background-free pictures, with names kept inside their cards.
• Vehicles already saved in your garage show the new pictures too.

Preview your kit before claiming

• Open Kits on your laptop to inspect inventory, belt and clothing items before claiming.
• See cooldowns and claim requirements, with clearer feedback when your inventory is full.
• The linked starter panel shows your account status and opens a copyable account-page link.

Open your kits with /kit

• The Kits icon no longer appears in the mobile menu.
• Use /kit to open the same kit previews and claim controls.

Phone commands open cleanly

• Typing phone or menu with no extra text no longer triggers a server error.
• The normal phone opening flow is unchanged.

Kit messages match the server colours

• Kit help and notifications now use white text with yellow highlights.
• Commands, kit names and claim requirements stay the same.

Night scavenging brings better supplies

• Extra night finds could be basic food or worn starter gear.
• Night Surge now offers more loose loot and useful components, attachments, ammunition and gear.
• Selected elite and locked crates have a 50% chance of one extra higher-grade item.

New players hear about the free starter kit the first time they spawn

• Many new players never found out the starter kit existed. The first time you spawn in, a single chat message now tells you it is ready and how to claim it.
• Not linked yet? That first message points you to the account page instead. Either way it is sent once, so it never nags you again.

Night Surge explains why to scavenge

• Night Surge previously put a long objective and payout message into chat.
• A short notice and first-time voiced guide now explain the extra night loot and infected pressure.
• The full guide stays readable in four lines and can be replayed from Tutorials.

Read the Brute's attack

• Clearer attack tells make infected rushes easier to react to.
• Listen for the Brute's wind-up, dodge sideways and attack during its recovery.
• Completed outbreaks remove their main map marker, with a brief marker left for the Brute's key.

Earn more from an outbreak

• Smaller waves reduce the grind, while extra corpse supplies help you stay in the fight.
• Earn a 250 Cash breach bonus and a larger shared Brute reward when more survivors take part.
• The Brute still drops a Survivor Cache Key, and each completed outbreak keeps its 10% rare schematic chance.

Outbreaks wait for the first survivor

• Travelling to an outbreak no longer uses up your fighting time.
• Enter the marked area to begin, clear the infected, defend the breach and bring down the Brute.
• A clearer objective HUD, first-time tips and a coloured breach boundary show what to do next.

More supplies to scavenge at monuments

• Many monument loot spots were left empty during normal scavenging.
• Active routes now fill 70-80% of mapped spots, reaching 100% during Night Surge with more night-cache rolls.
• Nearby rooms can refill sooner as you explore. Existing safe-zone and underground exclusions remain.

Outbreak HUD stays inside the marked area

• The outbreak HUD could appear beyond the circle shown on your map, even after leaving the fight.
• It now appears inside the marked area and disappears when you leave, keeping your screen clear.

Jungle and Ice rifles now cost the same to repair as a standard assault rifle

• Either rifle now costs 1200 at full damage, the same as a standard assault rifle, and heavy plate is 800, 1000 and 650.
• They previously cost a flat 100 however badly damaged, because none of them carry a vendor purchase price to work from.
• Keeping a rare rifle or a full plate set in the field no longer costs a fraction of everyone else's upkeep.

Pass challenges fit more kinds of play

• Shorter treatment, scavenging and infected goals replace daily chores, while supply drops move to weekly challenges.
• Earn credit across different Outpost activity families and evidence types, or recover qualifying heist and expedition loot.
• Opening supplies can count for each survivor; empty crates and repeated openings do not add progress.

Mission notices explain the next step

• Ready notices tell you to return to Outpost, and reward receipts identify the job you handed in.
• Alert line breaks display correctly, with a short success sound after a completed hand-in.

Outpost jobs reward more varied survival work

• Repetitive equipment orders give way to practical supplies, smaller gathering goals and clearer recovery jobs.
• Earn weekly rewards by completing different supply jobs or patrols in different locations.
• Existing accepted missions keep their progress and rewards. New emergency clocks start when you accept.

Recover records and bring them back to Outpost

• Clear infected, restore the radio camp and protect supplies through the encounter's objectives.
• Return Clinic records, Dead Air transmissions or recovered dog tags for Cash, reputation and the listed rewards.
• Secured supplies show loot markers; emptied sites warn you before they disappear. Keep the radio earned at the camp.

Chinook crash alerts explain the objective

• Crash alerts previously gave the location without explaining how to earn rewards.
• Alerts now explain holding the zone and waiting for crate fires to go out, with ten seconds to read them.

Field Dressing supply jobs leave the rotation

• Clinic Restock and Patrol Resupply are no longer selected for new Outpost jobs.
• Jobs already accepted keep their requirements and rewards.

Recovery notes are easier to recognise

• Transmission Records now show their clipboard icon without the loading badge.
• Four recovery notes use short instructions naming the Outpost job that accepts them.

Zombie sounds no longer obstruct combat

• Temporary sound carriers could appear where zombie calls played.
• Sound carriers now stay below the scene so vision and shots remain clear.

Chinook notices appear once in Lazarus Alert

• Crash announcements previously appeared in duplicate popups.
• Event notices now use Lazarus Alert with clear crash-site and crate instructions.

Open vault doors let infected through

• An open vault door could still stop infected at the entrance.
• Infected can now follow survivors through an opened vault doorway.
• Closed vault doors continue to block their passage on Original.

Cupboard upgrades show their costs together

• Upgrade supplies were hidden behind a separate scrolling panel, and the toolkit could look mandatory.
• All required items now appear with icons and counts, while the Structural Toolkit is clearly shown as an optional shortcut.
• Clearer tier information and cupboard notices help you see what is unlocked and what to do next.

Random zombie calls are removed from distress sites

• Background zombie recordings could play between waves with no infected nearby.
• Scripted site ambience is disabled; actual infected keep their usual sounds.

Distress waves use stronger infected groups

• Weak health and damage overrides reduced the threat of some infected.
• Waves now use normal variant health and damage, with more Rotters, Sawbones and Brutes across the enabled encounters.
• Enemy totals, defence timers and rewards are unchanged.

Radio camp generators become part of the defence

• Infected previously ignored the generator during the transmission.
• Two infected now take separate attack positions while the others pursue players.
• Restore power with an eight-second Reload hold while keeping transmission progress; the generator allows two shutdowns.

Skills stays selected in the phone dock

• Opening Skills previously cleared its selected tab highlight.
• The Skills tab now stays highlighted while its app is open on Original.

Every assigned contract stays within reach

• Contracts beyond the first four were hidden at the vendor, including completed jobs.
• Completed contracts now appear first, with PREV and NEXT for additional pages.
• Schematic reward images reuse the cache when you reopen contracts and reward details.

Expired listings stop using selling slots

• Expired and sold listings could fill your selling allowance.
• Only active, unexpired listings count toward the 17 selling slots.
• Collect proceeds from every sold listing, including through Claim All.

Cash out larger rare finds

• A minigun could be worth more than your entire personal cash-out allowance.
• Your limit is now $16,000 per visit; the shared $25,000 allowance remains.
• Launcher buyback prices stay below their discounted Outpost purchase price.

Building supplies stay available

• Buying supplies could empty stock for everyone else.
• Construction stock is unlimited; nails, cement, plates and HQM kits need no reputation.
• Prices and cupboard upgrade costs stay the same.

List items with a smaller upfront fee

• Listings previously cost 10% before anything sold.
• Pay 2% upfront and the remaining fee only after a sale; Tax Benefit keeps its 5% total.
• Existing listings will not be charged the new sale fee.

Survivor bunker is at Mansion

• The bunker marker previously led to the old location in M11.
• The bunker door and cache now sit at Mansion in K14, matching their intended placement.

Airfield patrols recover from blocked paths

• The Bradley could remain stranded against wreckage because clear ground was treated as blocked.
• It now finds safe recovery points along the Airfield route and resumes patrolling.

More choice at the smuggler

• The old six-item selection stopped you buying another item from the same category.
• Each visit offers 14 items, with 1-4 purchases per item for each player and no reputation requirement.
• The personal cash-out cap is gone. The shared $25,000 visit budget still applies across all players.

Shop icons request their intended skins

• Some shop icons previously requested a missing skin and waited for a timeout.
• Unskinned items now use their normal icons while custom skins stay intact.
• Applies to item lists and item details on Original.

Repair with parts and money in one payment

• Repairs on blocked gear previously required money.
• Salvaged parts now cover their share of the bill, with cash or bank paying the remainder.
• The bench shows the total and payment breakdown above one REPAIR button.

Laptop updates follow the latest Discord posts

• Recent updates could stay on an old announcement or omit the latest changes.
• The laptop now checks for new posts every minute and reads their change details.
• Reopen the main menu to see the latest updates for your gamemode.

Smuggler gold keeps its premium

• Gold could pay less at the smuggler than at ordinary vendors.
• The smuggler gold minimum is now $550; ordinary gold remains $500.
• Hazmat resale keeps its current payout, with a lower maximum to prevent a future buyback profit loop.

Vendor sales preserve custom gear

• Selling an ordinary item could take a custom version from your inventory instead.
• Ordinary sales now preserve custom gear, while custom items still use their matching sale rows.
• Locked items and blueprints are excluded from ordinary sales.

Laptop updates show a short summary

• Long update posts could fill the laptop main menu.
• The menu now shows three short highlights from the latest update.
• Read the full changelog at theprojectlazarus.com/updates.

Duplicate pieces work in rotating trades

• Duplicate pieces could be rejected when paying for a rotating deal.
• Use four pieces from the same tier, including duplicates, to receive one eligible piece from the next tier.
• Original keeps its existing collection costs, reward chances and one-for-one downward trades.

Monuments and heists recover after the weekly wipe

• Late monument markers could leave NPCs and heists missing after a new map loaded.
• Monument discovery now waits for full coverage, and incomplete wipes stop before map rotation.
• Heists reset on a new save, preserve progress through normal restarts, and use safe exits on each map.

Checkpoint defenders arrive with intact cover

• Checkpoints could stall with too few defenders or disappear when NPCs broke their own sandbags.
• NPC groups now have enough spawn space, and event cover survives NPC contact.
• Checkpoints and radio camps keep their existing defender counts and loot.

Keycards load cleanly with each fresh map

• Map keycards could trigger errors as a fresh map finished loading.
• Keycards now finish their initial setup before sending item updates.
• Applies to green, blue and red map keycards on Original.

Collections wait for startup before saving

• An early save could run before schematic data finished loading.
• Schematic saving now waits for initialization and preserves existing collections.
• Applies to Original during startup and shutdown.

Locked items keep separate cards

• Multiple locked items could share one shop card.
• Each item now keeps its own card and reputation requirement.

Life3 Sep 2026

Life is easier to identify

• The server name now highlights GTA Rust, properties, jobs, and heists.

Personal recyclers now wear down while running

• Opening a personal recycler now shows its durability above the processing status.
• Normal recycling and supported resource processing reduce durability while the machine works.
• At zero durability, the recycler breaks with a clear effect and drops its remaining contents.

Everyday menus are clearer and safer

• Shop, laptop, trade, property, case and vehicle screens now explain unavailable actions and show clearer details.
• Pressing an action twice no longer repeats a purchase, rental, payment or trade.
• Rented vehicles keep their supplied parts and fuel locked, while trade requests now stay bound to the intended players.

Purchased vehicles can be refuelled again

• Players can refuel purchased cars, boats, and helicopters with Vehicle Fuel again.

Repair benches accept cash or bank

• Players can pay repair bench costs with carried Cash or bank funds.

Life now uses the US connection address

• Connect with us.theprojectlazarus.com:25014; the former EU address remains available as a compatibility alias.

Schematic progress is saving normally again

• Life schematic balances and transactions now save normally after the Dallas move.

Life favourites now use a dedicated address

• Clear any region filter, remove the old EU favourite, join Life once, then favourite it again so future IP moves can follow the server-specific address.

Life now appears in the correct US region

• Rust now reports the Dallas server from its Texas region instead of Europe.

Life has a new server banner

• The server browser now shows a smoother GTA-inspired heist banner for Life.

Life description now reflects the live gamemode

• The server browser now highlights careers, properties, businesses, gangs, crime, police, heists, and biweekly wipes.

Life closed for the revamp

• The Life server is temporarily closed while it gets a full rebuild. It now shows REVAMP IN PROGRESS in the server browser - watch Discord for reopening news.

Life wipe posts paused during the rebuild

• While Life is closed for its full revamp, its automatic wipe announcements are paused so the wipe feed only shows servers you can actually join.

Schematic collections are safer during outages

• Permanent schematic collections no longer risk being replaced by stale saved balances during an outage.
• Schematic rewards earned during a short interruption are held safely and delivered after recovery.
• Missing schematic pieces can now be recovered even when every schematic type is still listed.

Core Life gameplay restored

• Crafting, banking, trading, vehicles, police, shops and tasks are working on the latest Rust build.
• Inventory rules, NPC movement, medicine, crate audio and water collection boosts now load correctly.

Original3 Sep 2026

Infections now reset with weekly wipes

• Players no longer carry an infection from a previous wipe into a fresh map.

Upgraded furnaces keep their levels when replaced

• Picked-up furnaces now restore their purchased speed and fuel levels when placed again.
• VIP furnaces still receive their usual maximum levels.

Resets no longer move distant players

• Military Cache resets now only move players who are actually near the spawned vault.
• Players elsewhere on the map stay where they are if monument tracking refreshes.

Original is easier to identify

• The server name now highlights DayZ survival, 2x gathering, weekly wipes, and the four-player limit.

Personal recyclers now wear down while running

• Opening a personal recycler now shows its durability above the processing status.
• Normal recycling and raw-drug processing reduce durability while the machine works.
• At zero durability, the recycler breaks with a clear effect and drops its remaining contents.

Guaranteed Outpost rewards are now shown

• Signal Chain now lists the Distress Radio it pays when completed.
• Other Outpost tasks also show guaranteed items alongside Cash and schematic chances.

Outpost missions now feel like survival work

• New contracts send survivors to clear infected towns, hunt dangerous variants, gather field supplies, and support the settlement.
• Every contract now pays Cash, while the weekly war efforts pay far more for a weekly wipe.
• Repetitive errands were removed, and heist rewards now come from completing the heist instead of clogging daily boards.

Crash sites stay on accessible terrain

• Random crashes now avoid mountains, cliffs, deep water, and blocked monument ground.
• Crates and defending pilots now arrive together on stable terrain.

Mission progress is easier to scan

• Progress, reset and expiry details now sit beneath each mission title.
• Objective missions use a slim progress bar, leaving the middle panel focused on what to do.

Mission rewards are easier to understand

• Cash, guaranteed items, schematics and reputation now appear in separate reward cards.
• Mission actions now sit beneath the title, and custom reward items show their real icons.

Menus are clearer and vehicle rentals are safer

• Shop, laptop and vehicle screens now explain unavailable actions and show clearer details.
• Pressing an action twice no longer repeats a purchase or rental.
• Rented vehicles keep their supplied parts and fuel locked, and now follow each dealer's saved spawn direction.

Mission actions and timers no longer overlap

• Weekly and timed donation rows now show the Donate action beside their reset or expiry timer.
• Completed missions keep Claim separate from the timer, while Reroll remains a smaller secondary action.

Crafting menus now show usable recipes

• Normal craftable items are learned automatically while workbench tiers still apply.
• Items that cannot be crafted by hand now explain where players can obtain them.
• Research tables can create Industrial Crafter blueprints without teaching restricted recipes.

Wipes preserve server fault history

• Problems that appear after a wipe stay recorded, making them easier to trace when players report them.

Repair benches accept cash or bank

• Players can repair blocked weapons and gear with carried Cash or bank funds.

The smuggler brings more useful choices

• Each visit now offers six purchase choices, including five new specialist tools and equipment.
• Cash-out demand keeps eleven reliable valuables and rotates six extra contraband items each visit.
• Smuggler trades no longer require Outpost reputation, and arrival notices keep the stock a surprise.

Survival tasks and Outpost Contracts are easier to read

• Survival Arc and Outpost Contract panels now use wider layouts, clearer progress text, and consistent laptop styling.
• Outpost Contracts now show objectives, progress, cash, reputation, item rewards, and schematic rewards in one journal.
• Market Info now focuses on vendor prices, while accepting, rerolling, handing in, and claiming contracts remains at Outpost vendors.

Monument Heists are named more clearly

• The final Survival Arc task now says Monument Heist instead of heist response.

Outpost Contracts now support Battlepass challenges

• Completing and claiming Outpost Contracts can now progress new Daily and Weekly Battlepass challenges.
• The free and VIP schematic reward tracks and XP requirements are unchanged.
• Only successful vendor hand-ins count; incomplete or repeated claims do not.

Challenge chains no longer repeat the same task

• New Daily, Weekly, Special, and VIP chains now use unique challenge titles.
• Rerolls avoid immediately returning the challenge they replaced.
• Rewards, stage counts, and active player progress are unchanged.

The First Days now leads clearly into Outpost Contracts

• Each First Days tutorial now identifies its Survival Arc chapter and reward more clearly.
• The laptop is explained as the place to review contracts, while any Outpost vendor handles rerolls, hand-ins, and claims.
• Updated voice guidance now names Monument Heists and the correct contract flow.

Original now uses the US connection address

• Connect with us.theprojectlazarus.com:24014; the former EU address remains available as a compatibility alias.

Schematic progress is saving normally again

• Original schematic balances and transactions now save normally after the Dallas move.

Original favourites now use a dedicated address

• Clear any region filter, remove the old EU favourite, join Original once, then favourite it again so future IP moves can follow the server-specific address.

Original now appears in the correct US region

• Rust now reports the Dallas server from its Texas region instead of Europe.

Legendary black market gear is more rewarding

• Trauma Blowpipe, Shock Mace, Bloodletter Combat Knife, Arc Purifier, and Perimeter Alarm Kit now have stronger effects and clearer guidance.
• The legendary item HUD is easier to read, briefly appears on equip or progress, and stays out of the way of tutorials.
• Ultra-Rare and Mythic schematics, skin-specific repair costs, and refreshed Structural Toolkit artwork add lasting acquisition and upkeep routes.

Original has a new server banner

• The server browser now shows a clearer DayZ-inspired infected-survival banner for Original.

Trauma Blowpipe treatment is clearer and balanced

• Medical charges now feed the next dart automatically after one reload.
• Each teammate can be treated once every five seconds, and blocked repeat shots return the charge.
• Legendary item HUD instructions are now bolder and easier to read.

Original description is easier to scan

• The server browser now explains infected survival, Monument Heists, schematics, Survivor Log progression, and gather rates more clearly.

Zombie chases feel more natural and fair

• Infected pursue survivors for longer instead of abruptly turning back after a short chase.
• Close attacks now have a visible wind-up, giving alert survivors a brief chance to dodge or reach cover.
• Stealth and the SPOTTED warning now respond more clearly to distance, sight, and active pursuit.

Wipe pings now reach you

• Wipe announcements in Discord now properly ping the server wipes role, so grab the role to know the second a fresh map is live.

Schematic collections are safer during outages

• Permanent schematic collections no longer risk being replaced by stale saved balances during an outage.
• Schematic rewards earned during a short interruption are held safely and delivered after recovery.
• Missing schematic pieces can now be recovered even when every schematic type is still listed.

Infected encounters are fairer and more varied

• Zombie attacks now require close contact, give survivors a dodge window, and respect armour.
• Road infected pursue longer while monument and event packs stay within sensible encounter bounds.
• Crowded locations limit overlapping reinforcements, preserve resident infected after hordes, and use a broader mix of variants.

Safe zones now keep infected outside

• Infected can no longer spawn inside Outpost or other active safe zones on Original.

The Lazarus Pass has a cleaner look and clearer missions

• The Lazarus Pass missions, rewards and overview now share one clean look that is easier to read at a glance.
• Every Pass reward now opens a detail card, and locked Infected rewards explain how to unlock them.

Outpost Contracts are now cards with reward details

• Outpost Contracts now show as four cards with progress bars and reward tiles you can tap for details.
• Contract buttons and the Survivor Log now say complete instead of claim, and every card shows its button.

Contract chat messages now say complete

• Chat messages for a finished contract now say complete and point you to the Outpost shop to collect the reward.

TC supplies are rarer and ground loot is worth the walk

• The Storehouse heist paid piles of nails and cement; it now pays a few Reinforcement Plates and one HQM kit.
• Normal, tool and basic crates now roll nails, cement and plates about half as often as they did before.
• Ground loot at Motel, Suburb and Substation has less clothing, more scrap and small cash rolls, and spawns from further away.

Ferals and Rotters hit harder

• Ferals now strike faster and harder and Rotters hit harder; Walkers are unchanged, so sneaking past them still works.

Vehicle garage, permanent vehicles and the Distress Radio

• Vehicles can now be bought outright at any dealer and kept for the wipe in the new Garage app on the laptop.
• Garage storing, remote retrieval, repairs and fuel all cost cash, and retrieval only works outside safe zones.
• The Distress Radio is on sale at the Equipment Store for $4,500; heavy component sellers reach the lower price after 150 units.

The Airfield Bradley patrol is active again

• The patrol now finds the correct Military Airfield position after the wipe.
• Duplicate monument markers no longer hide missing locations during reloads.

Core Original gameplay restored

• Shops, laptops, tasks, medicine, inventories, furnaces and tools are working on the latest Rust build.
• NPC movement, crate audio and water collection boosts now load correctly after the update.

Life22 Aug 2026

The interaction menu is clearer and more reliable

• Player ID now uses a clear badge icon instead of a cropped image.
• Interaction prompts recover reliably while looking at the same player.
• The branded action menu keeps distinct icons and an explicit Close option.

Unused legacy store connection retired

• The inactive connection is no longer loaded on this server.
• Current first-party purchases and reward delivery remain unchanged.

Original22 Aug 2026

New research and bunker cases

• Hospital heists now always award a Medical Research Case, with exact bundle contents shown before opening.
• Bunker heists award an Encrypted Bunker Cache; Military and Armory banks also have smaller chances.
• Unopened cases can be sold to the Black Market Smuggler for $5,000 or $7,500.

Food and water warnings are clearer

• Before this update, survival alerts showed internal multipliers that were difficult to understand.
• Food and water warnings now explain the danger and tell players how to respond.

Admins can now restock Anti-Viral Medication directly

• The new admin command gives the correctly configured infection cure item.

Roadside infected and Radtown populations are restored

• Roadside infected now populate near active survivors again.
• Radtown now has its intended infected population during the day and night.

Infection medicine and status feedback now work reliably

• Anti-Viral Medication now goes into the visible inventory when staff use the restock command.
• Infection status icons load correctly, and the spotted indicator no longer carries through death and respawn.

Heist cases are easier to browse

• Case pages stay on-screen and remember their position.
• Medical bundle tooltips and bunker reward images now display correctly.

High-risk heists now pay more reliably

• Scraptown Intel costs less, every successful Scraptown vault includes a weapon, and stolen gold can be sold faster.
• Military Cache keys and premium weapons are more obtainable, while Survivor Bunker now grants launcher schematic progress.

Startup cleanup is more reliable

• Offline player UI cleanup no longer produces startup hook errors.
• Death tracking now waits for its data to be ready during startup.

Smuggler stock and cash-out consistency

• Heist Intel now appears at the intended $12,000 price.
• Medical Research Cases and Encrypted Bunker Caches can be sold unopened during Smuggler visits.
• Rare Cargo tracking now reflects the actual configured visit chance.

Defeated guards now leave loot

• Guard corpses now remain available after they are killed.
• Event guards use the same loot profile as Airfield rifle soldiers.

Heist access and rewards now work reliably

• Hospital Lab reward crates now complete the heist instead of refilling until the event expires.
• Horde Brutes now always leave their Survivor Cache Key in the lootable corpse inventory.
• Military Cache Keys now appear often enough to support a weekly two-times wipe.

Unused legacy store connection retired

• The inactive connection is no longer loaded on this server.
• Current first-party purchases and reward delivery remain unchanged.

Combat vehicle kills now complete their quests

• The player who destroys Bradley or the patrol helicopter now receives quest credit reliably.
• Cleanup and admin removals do not award duplicate or invalid progress.

Harvested berry items now stack correctly

• Green and white berry seeds and clones now combine into existing inventory stacks.
• Harvesting no longer fills extra inventory slots with identical renamed items.

Smuggler visits now offer more useful choices

• Each visit now shows two Opportunity, two Tactical and two rotating Rare Cargo choices.
• Each player can buy one item from each category per visit, so another player cannot take your stock.

Closed monument doors now stop NPCs

• Military NPCs and zombies can no longer walk through closed garage, rolling, or puzzle doors.
• Open monument doors remain passable.

Police and Military heists now guarantee firearms

• Police Armory now always includes an M92, Semi-Automatic Rifle, or Pump Shotgun.
• Military Cache now always includes an M92, MP5, M39, or LR-300 with matching ammunition.
• Existing bonus loot, cases, ammunition, and Rocket Launcher schematic progress are unchanged.

Police and Military heists now award two firearms

• Police Armory now guarantees one primary weapon plus an M92 or Thompson with matching ammunition.
• Military Cache now guarantees an M39 or LR-300 plus an M92 or MP5 with matching ammunition.
• Existing bonus weapons, cases, components, and Rocket Launcher schematic progress remain available.

Town and Scraptown bank rewards now cover their entry costs

• Town Bank valuables now include a stronger mix of gold, jewelry, and diamonds.
• Scraptown Bank now awards three valuables hauls alongside its guaranteed weapon and supporting loot.
• Outpost valuables limits now let players cash out one complete bank haul without waiting through repeated buyer resets.

Every heist now rewards the risk

• Town and Scraptown banks now pay several times their entry costs and award group-sized weapon and valuables hauls.
• Military Cache and Police Armory now provide at least four firearms with matching ammunition and stronger supporting loot.
• Hospital, Industrial and Survivor Bunker now deliver much larger case, medical, building and survival rewards.

Building supplies are slightly harder to stockpile

• Common supply chances are modestly lower in road barrels, tool crates, vehicle crates and basic crates.
• Nail Bundles, Cement Mix and Reinforcement Plates cost slightly more at the Construction Store.
• Normal crates, ground loot, airdrops, events, TC requirements and HQM access are unchanged.

Military Cache Keys are easier to earn

• Heavy military soldiers now drop Military Cache Keys about twice as often.
• Heist Intel now directs players to the Black Market Smuggler instead of implying soldiers are its main source.
• Military Cache Key instructions now identify Heavy soldiers at Airfield, Barracks and Oil Rigs.

NPC combat is fairer

• Common infected are easier to escape, with smaller line-of-sight pack alerts and shorter pursuits.
• Only Brutes and trained military can open ordinary unlocked doors, and they now pause before entering.
• Common infected now always leave at least one loot stack; health, damage and horde pressure are unchanged.

Berry clone genetics stay intact

• Seeds and matching clones continue stacking normally.
• Clones with different genetics now stay separated instead of losing their traits.

Explosive crate guard loot is more reliable

• Defeated guards now receive one visible loot roll from their soldier profile.
• Temporary reward-profile failures preserve normal corpse loot instead of leaving an empty body.
• Event cleanup removes only the event living guards.

NPCs now respect every monument door

• Closed progress, sliding and puzzle doors now block custom NPC movement.
• Only player-owned unlocked doors can use the delayed Brute and military opening behavior.
• Nearby infected alerts now respect monument walls and terrain.

Helicopter quest credit stays with the right fight

• Each patrol helicopter now remembers its own last valid player attacker.
• Concurrent helicopters can no longer exchange or clear another player quest credit.
• Bradley and direct-hit vehicle quest progress remain unchanged.

Life16 Aug 2026

Banking and task controls are easier to use

• Passive task tracker graphics no longer block clicks meant for other interface elements.
• Life banking now opens only from registered ATM buttons, while transaction controls lock correctly during processing.
• Fingerprint sign-in is cleaner and legacy code-lock conversion has been retired.

Life server name cleaned up

• The Life server's name in the server browser was simplified so it reads cleaner and is easier to find when searching.

Server monitoring compatibility updated

• The background administration connection now matches the current Rust build. Gameplay behavior is unchanged.

Closed doors now stop hostile NPCs

• Custom NPCs now wait outside closed monument doors instead of moving through them.
• Melee attacks now recheck line of sight before applying damage.

Chat monitoring reliability restored

• Player chat now uses Rust supported history path for reliable staff moderation, while in-game formatting remains unchanged.

Original16 Aug 2026

Safe-zone banking remains reliable

• Original continues to detect banking buttons automatically inside safe zones.
• Legacy code-lock conversion has been retired so unrelated locks are never treated as banking points.

Black Market purchases accept open inventory space

• Wearable and tactical offers now use open main inventory slots instead of incorrectly reporting that the inventory is full.

Black Market visits now offer more usable choices

• Rare Cargo now appears on every visit, so the smuggler always brings three purchase lanes.
• Opportunity unlocks at 500 to 1,000 reputation and Tactical at 2,000 to 2,500, while prices and one-unit stock remain unchanged.

Roadside calls are spawning normally again

• Event cooldowns now remain accurate after a server restart.

Impossible blueprint requests have been removed

• Outpost will no longer assign the five blueprint donation requests.

Server monitoring compatibility updated

• The background administration connection now matches the current Rust build. Gameplay behavior is unchanged.

Closed doors now stop hostile NPCs

• Zombies and military NPCs now wait outside closed monument doors instead of moving through them.
• Opening the door lets NPC movement continue normally.

Chat monitoring reliability restored

• Player chat now uses Rust supported history path for reliable staff moderation, while in-game formatting remains unchanged.

Ghost ships stay afloat

• Before this fix, looting a ghost ship crate started a hidden countdown that pulled the whole ship underwater and dropped everyone on deck.
• Ghost ships now stay afloat for the full Deep Sea event, so you can clear and loot them without the deck vanishing beneath you.

No infected around ghost ships

• Before this fix, the roaming infected system counted every ghost ship as a shoreline junk pile and could try to raise infected around it.
• Ghost ships are now left to their own crew, so the Deep Sea fight stays scientists-only as intended.

Artillery Strike Designator now tells you the right key

• Before this fix, the designator's on-screen hint said to press Q, which just opens the crafting menu, so the strike never fired.
• It now says click middle mouse (the ping key) while zoomed in; the item description and schematic text match.

Marketplace actions process safely

• Buying, listing, cancelling, and claiming now use one-time action confirmations.
• Market controls pause while a transaction is processing and become available again when it finishes.
• Stale or repeated clicks are ignored before items or paper can change.

Life7 Aug 2026

VIP delivery now confirms server access

• Before this fix, a purchase could appear delivered even when its server group was missing.
• VIP groups and queue-skip access are now verified before a purchase is marked delivered.

Website player counts are live again

• Before this update, the website could not show live player totals after its old status provider stopped responding.
• Original and Life now report their own aggregate player counts directly, with stale totals hidden automatically.

Interrupted lock-picking sessions stop cleanly

• Before this fix, dying, disconnecting, or moving out of range mid-attempt could trigger a server error.
• Interrupted lock-picking attempts now clean up once and stop without continuing against a closed session.

August update compatibility is ready

• Before this fix, the August Rust update could stop NPC navigation, recyclers, and staff tools from loading.
• Both gamemodes now use the current server APIs and have passed compile and isolated runtime checks.

Original7 Aug 2026

Safe zones recover cleanly during server startup

• Before this fix, early event loads could leave incomplete safe zones running in the background.
• Safe zones now wait for startup to finish before they begin tracking nearby players.

Vendor item images recover cleanly after server restarts

• Before this fix, vendor shops could save placeholder images while the server restored its image cache.
• Vendor shops now wait for every required item image before opening their product cards.

Survivor chapter alerts now explain what comes next

• Before this update, chapter alerts used internal directive wording that could confuse players.
• Chapter completions now name the finished chapter, the next chapter, and its exact next action.

VIP delivery now confirms server access

• Before this fix, a purchase could appear delivered even when its server group was missing.
• VIP groups and queue-skip access are now verified before a purchase is marked delivered.

Destroyed storage now keeps loot together

• Before this fix, breaking a cupboard or storage box scattered every item across the floor.
• Destroyed cupboards and boxes now leave all their loot in one visible bag for at least 20 minutes.

Conveyors now move custom-skinned metal ore

• Before this fix, conveyors moved sulfur but rejected the server's custom-skinned metal ore.
• Metal ore now transfers into empty or compatible destinations while normal stacking rules remain intact.

Explosive crates now carry raiding supplies

• Before this update, explosive crates were dominated by bean-can and F1 grenades.
• Each event now carries gunpowder, cooked sulfur and raid progress, protected by site-aware riflemen.

Mushrooms removed from ground loot

• Before this update, mushrooms could occupy ground-loot rolls across Original.
• Ground-loot containers now roll the remaining survival supplies without mushrooms.

Player corpses now remain for 20 minutes

• Before this fix, a corpse could vanish after five minutes while its dropped gun and backpack remained.
• Player corpses now stay for 20 minutes, giving offshore deaths a realistic recovery window.

Survivor Log colours now match the laptop

• Before this update, bright lime accents made active and completed Survivor sections clash with the laptop.
• Directive accents and completed chapters now use the same green as the selected Survival Arc tab.

Survivor Log accents are easier to read

• Before this update, green headings and completed chapter details blended into the dark dossier background.
• Foreground accents now use the laptop's lighter tab-text green while buttons and progress bars retain their depth.

Explosive crates now unlock faster and pay out stronger raid supplies

• Before this update, explosive crates took 15 minutes to hack and the rare bonus usually paid nothing.
• Crates now unlock in five minutes and always carry four stronger raid-supply stacks.
• Hacker skills still shorten normal locked crates but cannot reduce this event timer.

Destroyed loot is no longer counted as collected

• Before this fix, destroyed loot containers could be counted as if players had collected their contents.
• Economy reports now separate pickups from unclaimed loot and show daily repeatable cash-sink coverage.

Website player counts are live again

• Before this update, the website could not show live player totals after its old status provider stopped responding.
• Original and Life now report their own aggregate player counts directly, with stale totals hidden automatically.

Raid loot bags now finish setup after stack merges

• Before this fix, matching stacks could combine normally but leave the raid-loot bag without its label or extended lifetime.
• Destroyed cupboards and boxes now keep every item amount while completing the visible bag setup.

The Airfield red-card room opens again

• Before this fix, the red-card reader and exit button were disconnected from the puzzle door.
• The reader and exit button now reconnect safely when this map loads, so the room opens again.

Hidden caches stay out of player bases

• Before this fix, scavenger caches could appear inside bases and be opened by nearby players.
• Caches now avoid player construction, stay private to the finder or their team, and spawn silently.

Bradley crates pay out more consistently

• Before this change, ordinary loot could fill Bradley crates before premium reward rolls were added.
• High-tier weapons now roll more often, with C4 and explosive ammo checked before common filler loot.

Raid loot bags now handle custom items

• Before this fix, custom item normalization could leave an intact raid-loot bag without its label or extended lifetime.
• Destroyed cupboards and storage now preserve every item amount and finish the visible bag setup.

Balance checks recover from old message formats

• Before this fix, an outdated balance message could make the balance command fail instead of replying.
• Balance checks now fall back to built-in wording when a saved message has invalid placeholders.

Raid loot keeps every blueprint identity

• Before this fix, custom-skinned blueprints could merge into the wrong schematic when destroyed storage formed its loot bag.
• Destroyed storage now preserves each blueprint target while keeping all raid loot together in one visible bag.

Smuggler visits now carry limited high-value stock

• Before this update, the smuggler mainly bought valuables and offered little worth purchasing.
• Each visit now carries limited Opportunity, Tactical and Rare Cargo stock, purchased safely with Paper.

Raid loot bags now recover partial stacks

• Before this fix, Rust could leave part of a large stack behind when destroyed storage formed its loot bag.
• Destroyed cupboards and storage now recover every returned stack before completing the visible bag.

Chocolate Bar purchases work again

• Before this fix, buying a Chocolate Bar failed because the shop requested an item name Rust no longer uses.
• Medical-store purchases now create the current Chocolate Bar item with the same price and requirements.

August update compatibility is ready

• Before this fix, the August Rust update could stop NPC navigation, recyclers, and staff tools from loading.
• Both gamemodes now use the current server APIs and have passed compile and isolated runtime checks.

Offshore NPC movement is stable again

• Before this fix, patrol boat crews repeatedly attempted invalid land movement while far offshore.
• Deep-sea patrol boats now follow Original's existing removal setting, stopping the navigation errors.

Life30 Jul 2026

Upgraded furnaces keep their levels when replaced

• Before this fix, replacing an upgraded furnace could lose its saved levels after a placement error.
• Upgraded furnace levels are now restored safely when the furnace is placed again.

Store rewards recover automatically after connection drops

• Before this fix, a dropped store response could leave newly purchased VIP rewards waiting for a manual restart.
• Original and Life now restart delivery automatically while ignoring late responses from older attempts.

Temporary provider outages retry cleanly

• Before this update, a brief provider disconnect could be logged as a server delivery error.
• Short provider outages now wait for the next poll without interrupting store delivery.

Old job objectives now clear correctly

• Before this fix, finishing or abandoning a job could leave its old objective visible after the job had cleared it.
• Job objectives now disappear when the job ends, and existing stranded objectives have been removed.

Store robberies restart cleanly

• Before this fix, store robbery cleanup could log an error when event zones shut down first.
• Store robbery clerks and zones now clean up safely during server restarts.

Repair benches reload cleanly

• Before this fix, a server reload could trip over repair benches that had already been removed.
• Repair-bench cleanup now skips expired bench references so reloads complete without that error.

Original30 Jul 2026

Consumables continue when a screen effect is unavailable

• Before this fix, a missing optional screen overlay could interrupt part of a consumable's effects.
• Consumable buffs now continue safely when a cosmetic screen overlay is unavailable.

Zombies and roaming NPCs move and attack reliably again

• Before this fix, some NPCs could stop moving or circle just outside attack range after the new navigation mesh loaded.
• NPCs now wait for navigation to finish, stay on valid routes, and close the final gap before attacking.

Offshore shop departures no longer trigger mission errors

• Before this fix, the departing shop vendor could leave a vanilla mission check pointing at a removed NPC.
• The vendor now carries shop stock only, and three start-to-departure cycles completed without mission errors.

Event zones clean up without startup errors

• Before this fix, some event zone cleanup requests during server startup could trigger repeated errors.
• Safe zones and combat zones now ignore early cleanup requests until their controller is ready.

Explosive crate events now spawn at visible, hackable locations

• Before this fix, some explosive crates could spawn near the world origin, leaving them hidden or impossible to hack.
• Crates now spawn at valid named sites with accurate map markers, spread-out guards, and safer cleanup.

Store rewards recover automatically after connection drops

• Before this fix, a dropped store response could leave newly purchased VIP rewards waiting for a manual restart.
• Original and Life now restart delivery automatically while ignoring late responses from older attempts.

Vendor NPCs recover cleanly after server restarts

• Before this fix, early monument loading could interrupt vendor NPC setup during a server restart.
• Vendor NPCs now finish loading cleanly once monument positions are ready.

Temporary provider outages retry cleanly

• Before this update, a brief provider outage could be logged as a server delivery error.
• Short provider outages now wait for the next poll without interrupting store delivery.

Weekly economy totals now cover more real money movement

• Before this update, several upgrade costs and direct cash rewards were missing from the weekly totals.
• Tool cupboard and furnace upgrades, cash loot, and cash schematic rewards are now counted more accurately.

Original no longer reports a false patrol-system startup error

• Before this fix, Original tried to reload a patrol feature used only on Life and reported a false startup error.
• Original now checks that the patrol feature exists before requesting its reload.

Life24 Jul 2026

Code cracking now works on player cars

• Before this fix, car code cracking could finish the minigame without granting vehicle access.
• Vehicle code cracking now applies access to the car lock after the minigame is won.

Random Ultra streak rewards now land in the schematic vault

• Before this fix, Random Ultra daily streak rewards could be marked claimed without adding the schematic piece.
• Random Ultra streak rewards now add the schematic piece to the vault across both gamemodes.

Daily streak rewards now respect the wipe cooldown

• Before this change, daily streak rewards could be claimed during the first hours after wipe.
• Daily streak rewards now unlock after the same six-hour wipe cooldown as schematic rewards.

Corpse-harvest quests now progress

• Before this fix, harvesting player corpses did not count toward evidence-cleanup tasks.
• Those tasks now advance when a real player corpse is harvested.

Owned cars unlock more reliably

• Before this fix, some stored or newly bought cars could still tell the owner to unlock them.
• Vehicle owners and approved drivers can mount locked cars again.

Skin case capstone now grants two pieces

• Before this change, the level 50 VIP capstone granted a full $400 skin case schematic set at once.
• It now awards two pieces, keeping the skin case as a longer-term schematic goal.

Inmates now wear a burlap prison outfit

• Before this change, players sent to prison were issued a plain grey jumpsuit.
• They now wear a burlap prison shirt and burlap pants for a proper inmate look.

Empty schematic vaults can now browse all unlocks

• Before this fix, players with no collected schematics saw an empty vault with no clear way to browse.
• The Schematics tab now has a visible View All control so every schematic can be previewed.

Schematic browser now opens while vault data loads

• Before this follow-up, some players could still see a blank Schematics tab while their vault data was loading.
• The Schematics tab now falls back to the full catalogue instead of waiting on owned-piece data.

View All now stays opt-in on empty vaults

• Before this tweak, empty or loading schematic vaults opened with View All already enabled.
• The Schematics tab now starts on owned pieces and lets players choose View All when they want the full catalogue.

Monthly wipe startup checks are cleaner

• Before this fix, optional patrol systems could log startup errors when a gamemode did not use them.
• Zone loading now waits for matching systems before refreshing them during update checks.
• Spawn-point loading now prepares its config before dependency events fire.

Monthly update compatibility is ready

• Before this fix, several server systems could fail to load after the monthly Rust update.
• Both gamemodes now load cleanly against the new update surface.

Emergency audio compatibility is ready

• Before this fix, some Life emergency audio could fail to load after the monthly Rust update.
• Police sirens and store alarm streams now use the updated server audio path.

On-screen alerts now clear after they expire

• Before this fix, heist and warning alerts could stay stuck on player screens after a reload.
• Alerts now clear their old screen slots when they expire, reload, or a player reconnects.

Schematic trade reward popups can now be dismissed

• Before this fix, a completed schematic trade could leave its reward popup stuck over the screen.
• Reward popups now clear reliably and can also be dismissed from the backdrop or close button.

Refreshed schematic reward icons

• Before this update, skill point and level boost schematics still showed older placeholder art.
• Those schematic cards now use the refreshed reward icons in the Schematics menu.

Monthly wipe startup checks are cleaner

• Before this fix, some server systems could fail to load after the latest Rust update.
• Original and Life startup checks now pass cleanly on the current server build.

Original24 Jul 2026

Coastal loot and infected placement restored

• Before this fix, Coastal Town could load without ground loot and infected could spawn inside inaccessible structures.
• Coastal loot routes now recover automatically, and infected use reachable monument and Police Armory positions.

Military soldiers pace their grenade throws

• Before this change, grenade-carrying soldiers could throw another explosive every 10 seconds.
• Military grenadiers now wait 30 seconds between throws, reducing sustained grenade spam.

Original17 Jul 2026

Original now explains its survival rules faster

• Before this update, new survivors faced nearly three minutes of automatic guidance and outdated rules.
• New players now get three focused cards in about 41 seconds, with current rates, nights, infection, and goals.

Dangerous nights have their warning cue again

• Before this fix, dangerous nights began without their intended audio warning.
• Night Surge starts now play the approved warning cue so survivors know the pressure has changed.

Roaming infected and horde objectives are more reliable

• Before this fix, roadside infected cleanup could stall and outbreak capture shields sometimes failed to appear.
• Roaming infected now clean up safely, and horde containment shields reliably mark the objective.

Sulfur Storms are clearer and less crowded

• Before this change, Sulfur Storms used a clashing blue marker and could maintain up to 14 defenders.
• Storms now use sulfur-yellow map styling, spawn six defenders per wave, and cap active defenders at 11.

Sleeping bag guidance is easier to understand

• Before this update, selecting a sleeping bag did not explain its one-use respawn limit.
• The hotbar now distinguishes one-use sleeping bags from unlimited beds.

Survival journey evidence is now active

• Before this update, staff could not reliably see where normal survival runs lost momentum.
• Original now measures aggregate journey milestones without changing balance, rewards, or difficulty.

The Smuggler boat is now a protected safe zone

• Before this fix, players outside the Smuggler boat area could still shoot and damage players inside it.
• The boat now has a larger 45-metre safe zone guarded by two deck-mounted military peacekeepers.

Original14 Jul 2026

Faster recovery after a server restart

• After a restart, monument NPCs, shop NPCs and ground loot could take minutes to appear in the right place if the map loaded slowly.
• They now settle into their correct spots within about two minutes.

Random Ultra streak rewards now land in the schematic vault

• Before this fix, Random Ultra daily streak rewards could be marked claimed without adding the schematic piece.
• Random Ultra streak rewards now add the schematic piece to the vault across both gamemodes.

Daily streak rewards now respect the wipe cooldown

• Before this change, daily streak rewards could be claimed during the first hours after wipe.
• Daily streak rewards now unlock after the same six-hour wipe cooldown as schematic rewards.

Skin case capstone now grants two pieces

• Before this change, the level 50 VIP capstone granted a full $400 skin case schematic set at once.
• It now awards two pieces, keeping the skin case as a longer-term schematic goal.

Empty schematic vaults can now browse all unlocks

• Before this fix, players with no collected schematics saw an empty vault with no clear way to browse.
• The Schematics tab now has a visible View All control so every schematic can be previewed.

Schematic browser now opens while vault data loads

• Before this follow-up, some players could still see a blank Schematics tab while their vault data was loading.
• The Schematics tab now falls back to the full catalogue instead of waiting on owned-piece data.

View All now stays opt-in on empty vaults

• Before this tweak, empty or loading schematic vaults opened with View All already enabled.
• The Schematics tab now starts on owned pieces and lets players choose View All when they want the full catalogue.

Monthly wipe startup checks are cleaner

• Before this fix, optional patrol systems could log startup errors when a gamemode did not use them.
• Zone loading now waits for matching systems before refreshing them during update checks.
• Spawn-point loading now prepares its config before dependency events fire.

Monthly update compatibility is ready

• Before this fix, several server systems could fail to load after the monthly Rust update.
• Both gamemodes now load cleanly against the new update surface.

Under-map recoveries now happen automatically

• Before this update, players who slipped under terrain could stay stuck or abuse the map edge.
• Confirmed under-map violations now move players above terrain and repeated attempts can temp-ban.

On-screen alerts now clear after they expire

• Before this fix, heist and warning alerts could stay stuck on player screens after a reload.
• Alerts now clear their old screen slots when they expire, reload, or a player reconnects.

Schematic trade reward popups can now be dismissed

• Before this fix, a completed schematic trade could leave its reward popup stuck over the screen.
• Reward popups now clear reliably and can also be dismissed from the backdrop or close button.

Monthly wipe startup checks are cleaner

• Before this fix, some server systems could fail to load after the latest Rust update.
• Original and Life startup checks now pass cleanly on the current server build.

The Last Stand skill now actually works

• Before this fix, Last Stand's 15% chance to stand back up while downed silently never triggered.
• Owners now genuinely roll that chance every time they're downed, on both servers.

Infected now close into melee without overlapping players

• Before this fix, infected could stop too far away or crowd inside a player while trying to attack.
• Infected now close to a balanced striking distance and only commit hits after valid contact.

Breach objectives are clearer to capture

• Before this fix, breach objectives used cluttered map markers that made the hold point hard to read.
• Horde participants now get a red shield, a visible capture zone, and a progress bar while sealing it.

Original ground loot is refreshing again

• Before this fix, ground loot could stay empty after wipe if the map finished loading before loot positions were ready.
• Ground loot now rebuilds its positions after startup, so fragments and scavenged supplies can appear again.

Original custom item pickups and crafts now stack correctly

• Before this fix, some custom-skinned pickups and crafts like Cement Mix or Field Dressings could land in fresh slots instead of merging.
• Those items now receive their custom identity before inventory merge, so normal stack behavior works again.

Automatic horde outbreaks can start again

• Before this fix, Night Surge settings blocked every automatic sunset horde before its event roll.
• Sunset horde rolls now run alongside Night Surge again at their existing event chance.

Vanilla items no longer turn into special rewards

• Before this fix, ordinary jackhammers and other vanilla items could become special custom rewards automatically.
• Special items now keep their own skin and name only when granted by shops, schematics, loot, or their owning feature.

Existing Vault Drills were restored to normal jackhammers

• Before this cleanup, Vault Drills created by the old replacement rule could remain in inventories and storage.
• Existing Vault Drills were converted back into ordinary jackhammers without changing legitimate vanilla jackhammers.

Under-map recovery now catches missed players

• Before this fix, teleports and some movement paths could bypass the normal under-terrain violation signal.
• Confirmed players below terrain are now checked regularly and moved safely back above the map.

Workbench crafting now unlocks in the vanilla craft menu

• Before this fix, Workbench Level 2 and 3 could still look locked because the client expected blueprint fragments.
• Players now get hidden crafting support tokens so the button unlocks while the real recipe uses normal materials.

Random distress events now appear more often

• Before this update, automatic roadside distress calls usually appeared only every 60 to 90 minutes.
• Automatic distress calls now roll randomly every 30 to 45 minutes while keeping the same event mix.

Night now lasts longer on Original

• Before this update, darkness lasted only five minutes and night events ended almost as soon as they began.
• Night now lasts fifteen minutes while daytime remains unchanged at fifty-five minutes.

Stopped random schematic grants from blueprint fragments

• Before this fix, blueprint fragments could trigger random schematic rewards while players were crafting.
• Fragment-based random grants are now disabled, and affected schematic/perk balances were corrected.

Night Surge and horde alerts are less crowded

• Before this fix, overlapping night events could stack repeated warnings, Brute messages, and wave alerts.
• Night events now combine shared warnings, reduce wave spam, and present completion rewards in order.

Loot returns automatically after a wipe

• Ground loot could fail to appear after a wipe and stay empty. It now returns on its own if that happens, so monuments and roads stay stocked.

Stopped duplicate blueprint fragments appearing in inventories

• Before this fix, checking a workbench recipe could repeatedly add blueprint-fragment token stacks to a player inventory.
• Workbench recipe tokens now remain identifiable, collapse to one required pair, and no longer multiply during crafting.

Retired VIP kits no longer appear

• Before this fix, retired VIP kit entries could remain visible and claimable through old rank permissions.
• VIP, VIP+, and Infected ranks no longer receive or see those retired kit entries.

Custom item artwork now displays correctly

• Before this fix, custom items could show a NO IMAGE FOUND tile because their old image source no longer worked.
• Marketplace listings now load approved artwork for Structural Toolkits and other Lazarus custom items.

Blueprint fragments now come from gameplay and Outpost

• Before this fix, workbench fragments appeared as artificial inventory tokens instead of meaningful progression loot.
• Basic and Advanced Fragments now come from Outpost, world loot, events and NPCs, then get consumed by workbenches.

Rocket launchers now have reliable progression routes

• Before this change, rocket launchers depended too heavily on inconsistent rare reward rolls.
• Locked crates can drop one directly, selected heists award schematic pieces, and smuggler stock is guaranteed.
• The smuggler launcher now costs $15,000 and appears within three available-stock visits.

Shop cashouts now better match the server economy

• Before this change, a few component and weapon sales created far more cash than players were spending.
• High-volume vendor and smuggler payouts now have lower prices and tighter limits to slow inflation.

Bulk cashouts now have fairer limits

• Before this change, a few very large black market and bulk component sales could create most of the server's cash.
• Black market payouts now have per-player and event limits, while scrap and common component buyers use six-hour capacity.

Horde zones no longer freeze player movement

• Before this fix, a horde's oversized red boundary could stall player movement across the map.
• Hordes keep their outbreak zone and objectives, but the unsafe global sphere visual is now disabled.

Roadside zombie pressure is now fairer

• Before this fix, passing roadside junkpiles could stack more infected behind a player and keep them chasing indefinitely.
• Roadside pressure is now locally capped, respawns are slower, and ambient infected disengage after leaving their chase area.

Vendor cashouts are easier to share

• Before this change, one player could empty a bulk buyer and small crop or ammo stacks could not be sold.
• Bulk sellers now have personal allowances, while crops and special rifle ammo cash out in smaller bundles.

Scavenged materials are always sellable

• Before this change, Scrap and several common components could hit a quota and stop paying out entirely.
• These materials are now always accepted, with softer payouts only after unusually large personal cashouts.
• Sell value recovers continuously while you keep playing.

Powerful schematic rewards need more pieces

• Before this balance pass, both disguises and the VIP rewards were too cheap for their strength.
• Fatigues and Shroud now need two pieces, VIP and VIP+ need three, and the personal recycler needs six.

Disguises now work reliably at range

• Before this fix, Stolen Fatigues did not protect players and repeated Shroud checks eventually revealed them.
• Military patrols now ignore Fatigues until cover is blown, while zombies consistently respect the Shroud outside point blank.

Roadside zombie pressure has been reduced again

• Before this change, moving between nearby road spawns could still stack four infected around early-game players.
• Roadside pressure is now capped at three nearby infected, and cleared spots stay quiet for four minutes.

Life19 Jun 2026

Outpost Salvage Crew gather missions now count the ore you mine

• Before, the Salvage Crew gather quotas for iron ore, sulfur and timber ignored freshly mined resources, so they could not be finished.
• They now correctly tick up as you mine ore, gather sulfur and chop logs out in the field.

Reroll quests you do not like

• Before, a quest you did not want was stuck until the daily or weekly reset.
• Now, complete a few quests to earn a reroll and swap any daily or weekly quest for a fresh one.

Max-level delivery drivers can keep taking missions

• Before this fix, max-level delivery drivers could run out of eligible delivery missions.
• Max-level delivery drivers now keep receiving DR9-DR12 missions with cash and diesel rewards.

Police health bonus now ends when leaving duty

• Before this fix, leaving police duty could leave the officer health bonus on a civilian character.
• The police health bonus now clears after going off duty or switching away from police.

Smoother world loading after a restart

• Before, parts of the world could be set up before the map had fully finished loading after a restart.
• Now, the game waits for the map to finish first, so NPCs and events reliably appear in the right place.

Inspect any schematic in the Market

• Before, Market offers only showed small schematic icons with no way to see what they actually were.
• Now click any schematic in an offer to open a popup with its image, description and piece count.

Original19 Jun 2026

Reroll quests you do not like

• Before, a quest you did not want was stuck until the daily or weekly reset.
• Now, complete a few quests to earn a reroll and swap any daily or weekly quest for a fresh one.

NPCs, vendors and loot now spawn in the right place after a wipe

• Monument NPCs, outpost vendors and ground loot could appear in the wrong spots after a map change; they now place correctly on their own.

Inspect any schematic in the Market

• Before, Market offers only showed small schematic icons with no way to see what they actually were.
• Now click any schematic in an offer to open a popup with its image, description and piece count.

Life17 Jun 2026

Life wipe timing now anchors to Rust force wipe Thursdays

• Life now wipes every two weeks from each monthly force wipe, instead of following the old timing.
• Full Life resets land on the first Thursday force wipe, with half-wipes two weeks later.

Monuments come back fully stocked after every wipe

• Before, a fresh wipe could briefly leave some monuments without their NPCs or events until a refresh.
• Now everything waits for the new map to finish building and reliably spawns in the right place on its own.

Dud beancans can no longer be recovered

• Before this fix, a drone-dropped beancan that failed could be picked back up.
• Drone-dropped beancans now disappear after failing instead of returning a free grenade.

Player stat totals now track gambling correctly

• Before this fix, gambling totals were based on profit and loss instead of actual wagers.
• Gambling totals now count chips wagered instead of net profit or loss.

Schematic market offers are now clear at a glance

• Every offer shows what it gives, what it wants and any cash, instead of a row of icons that was easy to misread.
• Plus a live preview as you build your own offer, and the Accept button greys out on offers you can't afford.

Season pass rewards refreshed with clearer prizes and milestones

• Before, many reward tiers showed the wrong info and some slots were empty or unfinished.
• Now every tier, plus new milestone and level-50 prizes, clearly shows exactly what you get.

Season pass now rewards playing, plus tough new challenges

• Before, you could finish the pass by sitting online and the challenge tab was empty.
• Now active play earns it faster, idle gives only a trickle, and new high-effort challenges are live.

New daily login streak in the battlepass

• Log in each day and claim a free reward from a 7-day streak, with a bonus VIP reward track on top.
• Resets every weekly wipe; miss one day and it's forgiven, miss twice and you're locked out. Rewards land instantly.

Daily login streak rewards now rotate every month

• Before, the login streak repeated the same rewards weekly. It now rotates a fresh themed reward set every month.
• The top prize, a personal recycler, is now earned as collectible pieces on the final day instead of the full item weekly.

New skin box: apply Workshop skins you own to your gear

• Open the skin box with /skin, drop a weapon, outfit or deployable into the slot, then pick from the Steam Workshop skins you own for it.
• Skin previews load straight from the Workshop, and your item always comes back when you close the box.

Original17 Jun 2026

Original wipe timing now follows Rust force wipe Thursdays

• Original still wipes weekly, with full monthly resets landing on the first Thursday force wipe.
• The schedule now follows UK time so summer and winter wipe windows stay aligned.

Monuments come back fully stocked after every wipe or restart

• Before, a fresh wipe or a server restart could briefly leave some monuments without their NPCs, loot or events until a refresh.
• Now everything waits for the world to finish loading and reliably spawns in the right place on its own.

Coastal town zombies now patrol the town instead of the water

• Before, coastal town's zombies could spawn down in the water below the docks instead of up in the town.
• Now they spawn correctly on the town's roads and walkways, and stay in the right place after every wipe.

Dud beancans can no longer be recovered

• Before this fix, a drone-dropped beancan that failed could be picked back up.
• Drone-dropped beancans now disappear after failing instead of returning a free grenade.

Sulfur storm ore no longer spawns inside monument buildings

• Before, the sulfur storm could spawn ore nodes inside monument buildings, leaving them stuck out of reach.
• Now the event finds clear, open ground first, so every ore node lands in the open where you can mine it.

Player stat totals now track rewards and gambling correctly

• Before this fix, Original kill rewards did not add to total RP collected.
• Gambling totals now count chips wagered instead of net profit or loss.

Season pass rewards refreshed with clearer prizes and milestones

• Before, many reward tiers showed the wrong info and some slots were empty or unfinished.
• Now every tier, plus new milestone and level-50 prizes, clearly shows exactly what you get.

Schematic market offers are now clear at a glance

• Every offer shows what it gives, what it wants and any cash, instead of a row of icons that was easy to misread.
• Plus a live preview as you build your own offer, and the Accept button greys out on offers you can't afford.

Season pass now rewards playing, plus tough new challenges

• Before, you could finish the pass by sitting online and the challenge tab was empty.
• Now active play earns it faster, idle gives only a trickle, and new high-effort challenges are live.

New daily login streak in the battlepass

• Log in each day and claim a free reward from a 7-day streak, with a bonus VIP reward track on top.
• Resets every weekly wipe; miss one day and it's forgiven, miss twice and you're locked out. Rewards land instantly.

Outpost and vehicle-store vendors now return reliably after every wipe

• Before, a fresh wipe could leave the outpost shop and vehicle-store vendors missing, so you could not trade with them.
• They now reliably reappear at their correct spots after every wipe and map change.

Daily login streak rewards now rotate every month

• Before, the login streak repeated the same rewards weekly. It now rotates a fresh themed reward set every month.
• The top prize, a personal recycler, is now earned as collectible pieces on the final day instead of the full item weekly.

New skin box: apply Workshop skins you own to your gear

• Open the skin box with /skin, drop a weapon, outfit or deployable into the slot, then pick from the Steam Workshop skins you own for it.
• Skin previews load straight from the Workshop, and your item always comes back when you close the box.

Life12 Jun 2026

Cart now shows your real cash and bank

• The shop cart used to read $0 in the money box no matter what you carried; it now shows your real cash and bank balance.
• The total you pay or receive now appears on the buy and sell buttons.

Backpacks work again after you die or respawn

• The backpack slot used to grey out after you respawned, blocking backpacks until you relogged. Now it stays usable right away.
• Anyone whose slot was already stuck from before the fix is unstuck automatically — no relog needed.

Gang hideout fights are defendable again

• Before this fix, some takeovers could flip ownership instantly and jump straight to the lockout.
• Hideout captures now build through the capture bar again, and Hideout D can be contested normally.

Gang members keep capture access after leadership changes

• Before this fix, a leadership handoff could leave the gang tag on the wrong member record.
• Gang members now keep their gang actions and hideout capture access through leader changes.

Resource businesses now receive harvested materials more reliably

• Before this fix, logging and mining businesses could miss shares when the wrong property box was selected.
• Owned resource businesses now send harvested logs and ore into a valid storage box instead of the cash box.

Inventory slot checks tightened

• Before this fix, clothing and hotbar checks quietly tagged item moves as main inventory moves.
• Nothing changes in-game today; this keeps upcoming inventory features accurate.

Backpack items can no longer get stuck in hidden slots

• Before this fix, losing the extra backpack slots perk could leave items trapped in slots the backpack no longer showed.
• Stored items now slide down into visible slots automatically - nothing gets lost or dropped.

Schematic trade-ups now only pay out the offers actually shown

• Fixed a hidden trade-up trick that could grant reward schematics that were never meant to be tradeable.

Monthly Rust update readiness

• Before this update, wipe prep checks hit outdated server APIs after the latest Rust build.
• Wipe readiness checks now load cleanly on the updated Test build for both gamemodes.

Outpost standing overhauled into a city contracts board

• The donate-only standing grind is now a contracts board with sweeps, salvage quotas, deliveries and event jobs.
• Contracts now pay cash and schematic pieces on top of standing, plus a daily special and a weekly city project.
• Standing now has five ranks with permanent shop discounts and a progress bar shown right in the shop.

Contract board shows daily and weekly reset timers

• Daily and weekly contracts now show exactly when they reset, with colour-coded gold and amber tiles.

Stuck contract boards can now be refreshed by staff

• If your contract board ever gets stuck or stale, staff can now refresh it instantly on request.

Trade schematics with other players on the new market

• Open the Schematics app and hit MARKET to offer spare schematics for cash, other schematics, or both.
• Offers are escrow-protected for 7 days, taxed lightly, and can be reserved for a friend so nobody snipes the deal.

Original12 Jun 2026

Backpacks work again after you die or respawn

• The backpack slot used to grey out after you respawned, blocking backpacks until you relogged. Now it stays usable right away.

Cart now shows your cash

• The shop cart used to read $0 no matter how much cash you carried; it now shows your real cash balance.
• The total you pay or receive now appears on the buy and sell buttons.

Helicopter pads check for real blockers

• Before this change, a cleared pad could still be treated as blocked if stale vehicle state stayed near it.
• Helicopter vendors now only reject a spawn when an active vehicle is actually on the pad.

Helicopter no-room checks are easier to trace

• Before this change, a rare no-room message could be hard to diagnose when the pad looked empty.
• Vehicle vendors now record the exact pad distance and blockers when that message appears, so staff can resolve repeat cases faster.

Top-tier monuments now drop stronger weapons more often

• Before this change, high-end guns almost never showed up as ground loot, even at the toughest monuments.
• Rifles, SMGs and explosives now appear noticeably more often at the large oil rig and military bases.

Backpack items can no longer get stuck in hidden slots

• Before this fix, items could get stuck in hidden backpack slots if a backpack ever shrank in size.
• Stored items now slide down into visible slots automatically - nothing gets lost or dropped.

Schematic trade-ups now only pay out the offers actually shown

• Fixed a hidden trade-up trick that could grant reward schematics that were never meant to be tradeable.

Monthly Rust update readiness

• Before this update, wipe prep checks hit outdated server APIs after the latest Rust build.
• Wipe readiness checks now load cleanly on the updated Test build for both gamemodes.

Outpost reputation overhauled into a contracts board

• The donate-only reputation grind is now a contracts board with kill, mining, crate-hack and delivery jobs.
• Contracts now pay cash and schematic pieces on top of reputation, plus a daily special and a weekly commission.
• Reputation now has five ranks with permanent shop discounts and a progress bar shown right in the shop.

Contract board shows daily and weekly reset timers

• Daily and weekly contracts now show exactly when they reset, with colour-coded gold and amber tiles.

Stuck contract boards can now be refreshed by staff

• If your contract board ever gets stuck or stale, staff can now refresh it instantly on request.

Trade schematics with other players on the new market

• Open the Schematics app and hit MARKET to offer spare schematics for cash, other schematics, or both.
• Offers are escrow-protected for 7 days, taxed lightly, and can be reserved for a friend so nobody snipes the deal.

Life7 Jun 2026

Protected bank heists during server restarts

• Before this fix, a restart during an active bank heist could wipe the vault loot before players collected it.
• Bank heists now lock before daily restarts and safely pay out active vault loot when a restart begins.

Bank heists move players out during restart recovery

• Before this fix, a player reconnecting inside a closed bank could risk being boxed in after it rebuilt.
• Bank heists now move players out before restart cleanup and before locked doors return after cooldown.

Original7 Jun 2026

Backpacks now work better with diving gear

• Before this fix, diving tanks and backpacks could block each other from using the back slot.
• Backpacks and diving tanks can now be worn together, including while players are in water.

Bank heist locations refresh after wipes

• Before this fix, bank heist sites could keep using old map positions after a wipe.
• Bank heist locations now refresh when the server finishes loading after wipes.

Backpacks equip correctly after respawning

• Before this fix, dying could leave backpack equip checks attached to the old inventory.
• Backpack and diving gear equip checks now reattach after respawn so recovered backpacks can be worn again.

Protected bank heists during server restarts

• Before this fix, a restart during an active bank heist could wipe the vault loot before players collected it.
• Bank heists now lock before daily restarts and safely pay out active vault loot when a restart begins.

Bank heists move players out during restart recovery

• Before this fix, a player reconnecting inside a closed bank could risk being boxed in after it rebuilt.
• Bank heists now move players out before restart cleanup and before locked doors return after cooldown.

Life5 Jun 2026

Clearer locked screen for VIP quests

• Before, opening VIP quests without the Presidential package showed a plain line of text.
• Now it shows a proper panel with the Presidential icon, the perks VIP unlocks, and how to get it.

Clearer locked screen for VIP quests

• Before, opening VIP quests without the Presidential package showed a plain line of text.
• Now it shows a proper panel with the Presidential icon, the perks VIP unlocks, and how to get it.

ATM deposit limits and money guidance updated

• Standard ATM deposits now allow $20,000 every 6 hours, with bank transfers capped lower at $7,500.
• New player guides now explain cash vs bank money, and the Life wiki matches the in-game wording.

ATM deposit limits and money guidance updated

• Standard ATM deposits now allow $20,000 every 6 hours, with bank transfers capped lower at $7,500.
• New player guides now explain cash vs bank money, and the Life wiki matches the in-game wording.

VIP clothing skinning works from inventory

• VIP players can now use /skin to reskin clothing from their inventory with skins they own.
• The command uses the existing VIP Skin Box access, so non-VIPs stay locked out.

VIP clothing skinning works from inventory

• VIP players can now use /skin to reskin clothing from their inventory with skins they own.
• The command uses the existing VIP Skin Box access, so non-VIPs stay locked out.

Economy balance tracking foundation

• Behind-the-scenes tracking now records major cash, bank, ATM, shop, and business-money flows.
• This gives future economy balance changes better real-server data instead of relying on guesswork.

Economy balance tracking foundation

• Behind-the-scenes tracking now records major cash, bank, ATM, shop, and business-money flows.
• This gives future economy balance changes better real-server data instead of relying on guesswork.

VIP clothing skin command shortened

• VIP clothing skinning now uses the shorter /skin command, matching the store and in-game VIP perk lists.
• The same Skin Box permission still controls who can use the command.

VIP clothing skin command shortened

• VIP clothing skinning now uses the shorter /skin command, matching the store and in-game VIP perk lists.
• The same Skin Box permission still controls who can use the command.

Business laundering clarity

• Business laundering boxes now show the exact cleaning rate, queued cash, and estimated clear time.
• Players can now understand how long larger cash stacks will take before they reach the bank.

Business laundering clarity

• Business laundering boxes now show the exact cleaning rate, queued cash, and estimated clear time.
• Players can now understand how long larger cash stacks will take before they reach the bank.

VIP clothing skinning targets the held item

• Before this fix, /skin item could confuse players by searching inventory names instead of the item in hand.
• VIP players now hold clothing and use /skin to see only owned Steam Workshop skins for that item.

VIP clothing skinning targets the held item

• Before this fix, /skin item could confuse players by searching inventory names instead of the item in hand.
• VIP players now hold clothing and use /skin to see only owned Steam Workshop skins for that item.

Property business setup loads again after the Rust update

• Before this fix, some property businesses could stall while waiting for bed data after startup.
• Property business setup now follows the updated server data format and can finish loading again.

Property business setup loads again after the Rust update

• Before this fix, some property businesses could stall while waiting for bed data after startup.
• Property business setup now follows the updated server data format and can finish loading again.

Shop wallet clarity

• Legal vendors now spend and pay clean bank money, while illegal and progression vendors stay cash-based.
• Shop cards and carts now show whether a transaction uses cash or bank before players check out.

Shop wallet clarity

• Legal vendors now spend and pay clean bank money, while illegal and progression vendors stay cash-based.
• Shop cards and carts now show whether a transaction uses cash or bank before players check out.

Life Rust update compatibility

• Before this update, several backend systems needed compatibility repairs after the Rust update.
• Life now reloads those systems cleanly on the updated wipe build.

Life Rust update compatibility

• Before this update, several backend systems needed compatibility repairs after the Rust update.
• Life now reloads those systems cleanly on the updated wipe build.

Blocked robbery prompts hidden

• Before this fix, some vendors that could not be robbed still showed a robbery interaction prompt.
• Those vendors now keep normal shop access without showing the robbery prompt.

Shop wallet labels are clearer

• Equipment Store purchases now use carried cash instead of bank money.
• The shopping cart now labels totals as TOTAL CASH or TOTAL BANK so empty carts do not look like your balance is zero.

Shop wallet rules updated

• City service vendors now use carried cash for purchases and payouts.
• Weapons vendors now use bank money, while illegal dealers take bank for buys and pay carried cash for sales.

New tactical crate loot added

• Elite and locked crate rolls now include the newest tactical armor pieces from the latest Rust update.
• Locked crates can now roll the M16A2, while elite crates can roll the new BDU outfit pieces.

Original5 Jun 2026

VIP clothing skinning works from inventory

• VIP players can now use /skin to reskin clothing from their inventory with skins they own.
• The command uses the existing VIP Skin Box access, so non-VIPs stay locked out.

VIP clothing skinning works from inventory

• VIP players can now use /skin to reskin clothing from their inventory with skins they own.
• The command uses the existing VIP Skin Box access, so non-VIPs stay locked out.

VIP clothing skin command shortened

• VIP clothing skinning now uses the shorter /skin command, matching the store and in-game VIP perk lists.
• The same Skin Box permission still controls who can use the command.

VIP clothing skin command shortened

• VIP clothing skinning now uses the shorter /skin command, matching the store and in-game VIP perk lists.
• The same Skin Box permission still controls who can use the command.

VIP clothing skinning targets the held item

• Before this fix, /skin item could confuse players by searching inventory names instead of the item in hand.
• VIP players now hold clothing and use /skin to see only owned Steam Workshop skins for that item.

VIP clothing skinning targets the held item

• Before this fix, /skin item could confuse players by searching inventory names instead of the item in hand.
• VIP players now hold clothing and use /skin to see only owned Steam Workshop skins for that item.

Original Rust update compatibility

• Before this update, several backend systems needed compatibility changes after the Rust update.
• Original now carries those compatibility repairs so the updated wipe build can reload cleanly.

Original Rust update compatibility

• Before this update, several backend systems needed compatibility changes after the Rust update.
• Original now carries those compatibility repairs so the updated wipe build can reload cleanly.

New tactical crate loot added

• Elite and locked crate rolls now include the newest tactical armor pieces from the latest Rust update.
• Locked crates can now roll the M16A2, while elite crates can roll the new BDU outfit pieces.

Life3 Jun 2026

Convoy cargo now drops Titanium Ingots

• Before this fix, convoy cargo could drop plain High Quality Metal instead of the Life crafting material.
• Convoy cargo now uses Titanium Ingots with the correct custom item skin.

Police clock-in now keeps handbook and team access

• Before this fix, first-time officers could receive police gear but stay in their old team without handbook access.
• Clocking in as police now keeps the officer tag and police handbook access active after rank setup.

Police duty now repairs missing handbook and team access

• If an active officer ever loses the police role group, the server now restores the officer tag and handbook access automatically.
• The repair only applies to players already on duty or in the police job, so normal civilians are not promoted.

Indoor visibility no longer blocks object placement

• Before this fix, the indoor visibility helper could leave a carried light attached to you and block object placement.
• Indoor visibility now uses native night vision indoors, so dark rooms brighten without blocking placement.

Drug effect overlays no longer break item use

• Before this fix, one drug effect could fail because its screen overlay was missing from the Life setup.
• Consumable drug effects now keep applying cleanly even if an overlay entry is missing.

Custom NPC death tracking is more stable

• Before this fix, some custom NPC deaths could hit a server error while recording who attacked a player.
• Custom NPC death tracking now handles missing weapon state safely instead of interrupting the death log.

Checkpoint laptop capture prompts now stay on the laptop

• Before this fix, checkpoint capture prompts could appear outside the bunker instead of on the laptop.
• Checkpoint capture prompts now stay tight to the laptop while the capture area and rewards stay the same.

Wanted stars fade much faster

• Before, wanted stars could linger for hours long after your last crime.
• Now wanted stars fade within minutes of staying out of trouble.

Oil rig locked crate returns sooner

• Before, the oil rig locked crate could vanish for hours after a loot, and restarts could hide it too.
• Now the locked crate returns in about 20 to 45 minutes, and restarts no longer lock it away.

VIP quest tab explains how to unlock it

• Before, players without VIP saw a blank VIP quests tab with no explanation.
• Now the VIP quests tab shows it unlocks with the Presidential package.

Scuba tanks and backpacks no longer clash

• Before, you could not equip a scuba tank with a backpack on, and jail could leave the backpack slot stuck.
• Now you can wear a scuba tank and backpack together, and your backpack returns and re-equips after jail.

Securing a heist now works properly

• Before, police filled the securing bar with robbers still inside, and it did not stop the vault crate opening.
• Now securing only finishes once wanted robbers leave, and it shuts the vault crate.

Bank vaults reset faster after a robbery

• Before, a robbed bank vault took 4 to 5 hours to reset and become robbable again.
• Now bank vaults reset in about 1 to 2 hours after a robbery.

Life1 Jun 2026

Life town NPCs no longer show stray map labels

• Before this fix, some Life town NPCs could appear on the map with generated labels like CZ-721.
• Those vendor and service NPCs now stay hidden from the map while their normal interactions still work.

Claim hideouts at the computer

• Taking a gang hideout is no longer automatic. Go to the hideout computer and press CAPTURE to claim it for your gang.
• The on-screen capture bar is gone and kills no longer build progress; the re-capture cooldown and hideout limit still apply.

Business property startup waits for property restore

• Before this fix, Life restarts could check business properties before their beds finished restoring.
• Business setup now waits and retries during startup, preventing noisy failed setup checks.

Business property startup reporting is clearer

• Before this update, restarts could make existing laundering boxes look like none were set up in staff checks.
• Startup reporting now separates reused boxes from newly created boxes, so business property checks are clearer.

Hideout prompt stability

• Before this fix, hideout prompt text could throw console errors when players disconnected or loaded nearby.
• Hideout interaction prompts now skip players who are not fully ready, keeping the prompt refresh quiet.

Life economy log writes are more stable

• Before this fix, busy balance updates could collide while writing economy audit logs and throw server errors.
• Economy log writes now run one at a time, keeping balance-change tracking stable during busy periods.

Life vehicle dismount decay checks are safer

• Before this fix, some Life vehicle dismounts could hit a server-side decay tracking error.
• Vehicle decay now handles missing rider or tracking state safely when players leave cars.

Original1 Jun 2026

Ground loot reloads cleanly

• Before this fix, a reload during ground-loot refresh could leave a stale refresh running after unload.
• Ground-loot refreshes now stop cleanly across reloads so the server avoids that null-reference error.

Cash balance logging is safer

• Before this fix, heavy balance updates could collide with the server's cash log writer.
• Cash logging now writes in order so balance changes stop causing sharing-violation errors.

Original NPC light checks now fail safely

• Before this fix, a rare NPC light-state check could throw a server-side timer error in the background.
• NPC light checks now recover quietly instead of leaking that one-off stability error into the logs.

Original weapon price updates now use active shop items

• Before this fix, some weapon sales could point price updates at a weapon Original does not sell.
• Weapon shop price updates now only reference active shop items, keeping related sale prices clean.

Life31 May 2026

Page arrows now render correctly across premium menus.

• Skills, market, medic, kits, and similar screens now show clean left and right page arrows.
• Life gang perk pages no longer show broken symbols when moving between perk pages.

Lumberjack task payouts and late-game contracts have been corrected.

• Birch plank deliveries now pay the proper cash amount for the full processing requirement.
• Late-game crude oil and oak log contracts no longer drop backward in workload or payout.
• Max-level lumberjack contracts still pay cash without granting extra job XP.

Purchase text no longer covers the Real Estate menu

• The floating buy prompt now hides while the Real Estate app is open and returns when you close it.

Easier to see inside dark buildings

• Step into a dark building and a soft light now follows you so you can see, instead of being left in the pitch black.

Becoming a cop now puts your gang on hold

• Take the police job and you temporarily leave your gang so you can't fight for it while on duty, and you rejoin automatically when you go back to civilian.
• If a gang leader joins the police, leadership passes to another member while they're away and returns to them when they come back.

Your gang keeps its name when the leader leaves

• Before, a gang could lose its name if the leader left the group. Now the gang name and leadership automatically pass to the next member.

Offline gangs no longer earn from hideouts

• A captured hideout now only pays out while at least one gang member is online, instead of earning around the clock with everyone logged off.

See clearly when diving

• Diving underwater now brightens the water around you so you can actually see, instead of swimming blind in the dark.

Police now have an in-game earnings and how-to-quit guide.

• Open the Jobs Department and pick the Police Guide tab to see exactly how officers earn cash and XP.
• It also explains how to leave the force, and the handbook payout numbers were corrected to match the game.

Phone app bar now stays on-screen when you have lots of apps

• Before, unlocking many phone apps could push the right-most app icon off the edge of the screen.
• Now the app row splits into pages you flip with the left and right arrows, and the app you're using always stays in view.

Clearer property messages

• Before this fix, some property actions could show internal message labels instead of readable text.
• Property purchases, rent payments, and ownership limit warnings now show clear player-facing messages.

Gang perks now each have their own icon

• Every perk in the gang menu now shows its own icon instead of all sharing one placeholder, so the perk list is far easier to read at a glance.

Going on or off police duty no longer kills you or wipes your inventory.

• Joining the police job now stores your civilian gear safely and issues your loadout; clock off from the police laptop to get it all back.
• Ranking up no longer kills you, and police gear is auto-removed from anyone who is not on duty.

Fixed a logout error and systems broken by a Rust update

• A recent Rust update quietly broke how some systems shared your player ID, causing a logout error and a few silent failures.
• Those are fixed - logging off is clean again and the affected systems work as intended.

Store robbery alarm sound is working again

• The alarm that broadcasts to nearby players during a store robbery plays again after a recent breakage.
• It was hit by the same player-ID change; the alert now reaches everyone in range as intended.

Every Life perk now shows its own icon in the perk menu.

• Perks used to share a single grey placeholder image, making them hard to tell apart at a glance.
• Now perks across the citizen, thug, mobster and law-enforcer trees each show their own distinct icon.

Hideout capture now has a clearer on-screen meter and kill rewards.

• Capturing a hideout now shows a clean progress bar that turns green, amber or red as the fight swings for or against you.
• Killing an enemy while taking a hideout now adds those capture points onto your on-screen kill rewards in orange.

Killing an on-duty officer now pays a cash bounty

• The reward scales with the officer's rank and is paid straight into the killer's bank balance.
• Officers no longer drop their police gear when they die, and respawn with their kit instead.

Original31 May 2026

Every perk in the perk menu now has its own unique icon.

• Perks all used to share a single grey placeholder image, so they were hard to tell apart at a glance.
• Now every perk across the farming, smuggling, ninja and guerrilla trees shows its own distinct icon.

Tutorials now speak their guidance aloud

• New-player tutorials used to be silent text cards; now each one speaks its guidance aloud as it appears.
• A calm or gruff narrator voices each tip to match the moment, so new players hear what to do, not just read it.

More features fixed after the recent Rust update

• A few more systems that quietly stopped working after the recent Rust update are back to normal on Original.
• This continues the cleanup of features that lost track of player IDs after that update.

Life30 May 2026

Page arrows now render correctly across premium menus.

• Skills, market, medic, kits, and similar screens now show clean left and right page arrows.
• Life gang perk pages no longer show broken symbols when moving between perk pages.

Lumberjack task payouts and late-game contracts have been corrected.

• Birch plank deliveries now pay the proper cash amount for the full processing requirement.
• Late-game crude oil and oak log contracts no longer drop backward in workload or payout.
• Max-level lumberjack contracts still pay cash without granting extra job XP.

Recent updates panel is back in sync

• Before this fix, newer Discord update posts could be missed by the in-game Recent Updates panel.
• The panel now reads the current update format and shows shorter changelog bullets in-game.

Custom-area NPCs and events spawn reliably after wipes

• Before this fix, NPCs at custom areas could fail to appear after a wipe until staff manually reset things.
• Now they spawn correctly as soon as the new map finishes loading, and event props no longer show up floating.

Original30 May 2026

Page arrows now render correctly across premium menus.

• Skills, market, medic, kits, and similar screens now show clean left and right page arrows.
• Life gang perk pages no longer show broken symbols when moving between perk pages.

Sulfur event overhaul

• The sulfur event now calls out its progress, ends with a hulking Sulfur Brute, and drops a hackable supply crate when you clear it.
• Rare sulfur storms roll occasionally with far bigger yields, heavier defenders, and two crates.

Recent updates panel is back in sync

• Before this fix, newer Discord update posts could be missed by the in-game Recent Updates panel.
• The panel now reads the current update format and shows shorter changelog bullets in-game.

Custom-area NPCs and events spawn reliably after wipes

• Before this fix, NPCs at custom town areas sometimes didn't appear after a wipe until staff manually reset things.
• Now they spawn correctly as soon as the new map finishes loading, and event props no longer show up floating.

Life29 May 2026

Vehicle storage now saves more reliably

• Before this fix, a parked vehicle could lose stored items if interrupted before the next server save.
• Vehicle storage now saves immediately when parked and stays linked through garage reloads.

Store robbery menu and police response

• Town shop vendors can now be robbed — aim at one and a menu appears (rob, open store, close).
• Robberies stay silent for the first 30 seconds — push past that and the alarm fires for x1.5 rewards.
• Once the alarm fires, nearby police can calm the clerk for 5 minutes to earn cash and Job XP.
• The officer who acts gets the full reward and other officers in the area get a smaller share.

Buying a property now wipes leftover signs and paintings

• Before, signs and paintings from the old owner stayed when you bought a property, and anyone could paint or lock them.
• Now buying a property clears them, and new signs and paintings inside can only be edited or locked by property members.

Convoy cooldown added

• Before this fix, players could finish a gang convoy and immediately start another with no time gate.
• Now a 10-minute cooldown applies after each successful convoy delivery before the next one can begin.

Post-capture lock added

• Before this fix, a gang hideout could be immediately recaptured the moment another gang finished taking it.
• Now there is a short randomized lock window (5 to 15 minutes) before any new capture or laptop use is allowed.

Drug buffs now boost what you collect

• Drug consumables already added tea-style buffs but the bonus was lost when you actually collected resources.
• Wood, ore, scrap, and drug-plant pickups now scale with your active drug buff inside and outside safezones.

Jail and arrest reliability pass

• Arrests no longer crash from bad spawn config, and escape item overflow now drops at your feet instead of vanishing.
• PVP declarations against jailed players are now blocked, and admin prison commands now reach offline targets.

Power tools are now rare, independent drops

• Chainsaw and jackhammer were a linked group drop in hackable crates. Now each is an independent ~5% chance.

Oil Rig scientist loot nerfed

• Oil rig scientists dropped MP5 rifles. Now they drop Thompson SMGs at 85% and weapon components in stacks of 2-3.

Oil Rig card puzzles restored

• Oil rig card puzzles were disabled for all players. Now the card and fuse puzzle must be solved to access elite crates.

Oil Rig recovery timer added

• Back-to-back oil rig hacks had no cooldown. Now after a crate event ends, both rigs recover for 2-6 hours.
• Cooldown is shorter when fewer players are online — one active event at a time, no instant restarts.

AK-47 is now rarer in crates

• AK-47 could drop from any crate freely. Now its weight is halved across hackable, supply, elite, heli, and bradley crates.

Vehicles on carlifts can now be lockpicked

• Lockpicking a car on a carlift was silently failing. Now it works, with a message if the car is part of an active convoy.
• Once a convoy mission ends, the vehicle can be lockpicked to claim any cargo inside.

Second convoy marker now appears correctly

• Starting a new convoy right after completing one left the first waypoint marker missing. Now it appears immediately.

Gang Menu Display Fixes

• Gang menu panels, the location map, and mission cards could show as solid black; now they load their artwork correctly.
• The in-world capture text used to overlap the menu; now it hides while the gang menu is open and returns on close.

Tactical wooden cover added with 5-minute decay

• Added temporary wooden cover that vanishes after 5 minutes. Limited to 5 active per player.
• Cannot be placed inside properties, safezones, on roads, or where it would seal another player inside a building.

Mixing table recipe menu fix

• Fixed mixing tables that could open an empty placeholder menu instead of the real drug recipe list.
• The proper recipes now show every time you open a usable mixing table.

Account stats sync is quieter

• Routine account stat syncs no longer add repeated success lines to the server console.
• Account stats still update in the background and staff still see warnings if something fails.

Stats sync is more reliable

• Before this update, busy stat snapshots could time out before profile totals refreshed.
• Account profile stats now have more time to sync while free kit checks stay quick.

Menu button click sound

• Before, pressing a menu button gave no feedback; now every button press plays a soft click.
• The sound is just for you and keeps menus feeling responsive.

Police convoy

• A police convoy now roams the island every few hours - hunt it down, beat its guards, then capture it to crack the cargo.
• The captured armoured cargo is packed with a heavy weapons, ammo and gear haul - first crew to reach it wins big.

Original29 May 2026

Airfield Bradley follows refreshed wipe positions

• Before this fix, a map wipe could leave the airfield Bradley using an old patrol route after monument positions refreshed.
• The airfield Bradley now reloads onto the refreshed airfield route whenever those positions change.

Custom monument features now come online automatically after each wipe

• Before this fix, custom-monument NPCs and per-monument loot only came back after a manual reload following a wipe.
• Now those systems light up automatically as soon as the new map is built, with no operator step needed.

Heavy Machine Gun removed from the craftable list

• Before this fix, the Heavy Machine Gun could be crafted on Original despite other top-tier rifles being uncraftable.
• Now the Heavy Machine Gun is uncraftable on Original and only obtainable through normal in-game loot and shop paths.

Account stats sync is quieter

• Routine account stat syncs no longer add repeated success lines to the server console.
• Account stats still update in the background and staff still see warnings if something fails.

Stats sync is more reliable

• Before this update, busy stat snapshots could time out before profile totals refreshed.
• Account profile stats now have more time to sync while free kit checks stay quick.

Menu button click sound

• Before, pressing a menu button gave no feedback; now every button press plays a soft click.
• The sound is just for you and keeps menus feeling responsive.

Sulfur event fixes

• Before, dying near the sulfur event's guards could make your body and loot vanish - corpses are now safe.
• The sulfur gather bonus now picks a smooth random rate across its range instead of only the two extremes.

Life22 May 2026

Shortened Life server browser name

• Before this update, the browser name listed features in a cramped format.
• Life now presents the GTA Rust identity with cops, gangs, and heists in a shorter name.

Linked starter kits now use /claimkit

• Use /claimkit after linking your Steam account on the account site to redeem the starter kit.
• The old /claim kit path has been retired so starter kit claims stay tied to the account site.

Linked account kits now require Discord

• Players must sign in with Steam and link Discord on the account portal before /claimkit can grant the starter kit.
• /claimkit now explains when Discord still needs to be linked or the linked Discord has already claimed the kit.

Account stats are now connected to player profiles

• Current wipe totals can now sync into the account portal.
• The free kit link now points players to the dedicated link page.

Account stats sync is now active

• Current wipe totals now reach the account portal after the live sync check.

Job level rewards can now be previewed ahead.

• Before this update, the rewards strip only showed the nearest job level rewards in one fixed view.
• Players can now use left and right arrows to preview later job rewards without changing claim order.

Original22 May 2026

Account stats are now connected to player profiles

• Current wipe totals can now sync into the account portal.
• The free kit link now points players to the dedicated link page.

Account stats sync is now active

• Current wipe totals now reach the account portal after the live sync check.

Older changes live in the Discord update channels. Something look wrong after an update? Open a ticket in the Discord.