📘 Rust – Patch Notes: Naval Update

🛠️ Main Features

• Deep Sea: New explorable ocean zone with dangers and rewards.
• Floating Cities: Floating cities serving as new points of interest.
• Tropical Islands: Islands rich in loot, resources, and threats.
• Ghost Ships: Ghost ships with rare loot and PvE challenges.
• Modular Boats: Player-built modular boats.
• New Oil Rig Scientist AI: New scientist AI for oil platforms.
• Scientist Boat AI: Enemy AI controlling armed boats.
• PT Boat: Fast hostile patrol boats.
• Refreshed RHIB Art: Visual improvements to RHIBs.
• Naval Themed Missions: Maritime missions and events.

🔧 New Tools & Systems

• Planner Viewmodel: New view for building placement.
• ServerProfiler Immediate Capture API: Server performance capture tool.
• New server convars: paintballstandarddamage and paintballoverallssdamage.

📈 General Improvements & Fixes

• Tech Tree now opens on the rightmost branch by default.
• Improved tooltips for disabled items.
• deleteentitiesbyshortname now functions correctly.
• Adjustments to vehicle and helicopter systems.
• UI improvements (menus, vending machines, map interactions).
• Various object placement and bug fixes.

🧠 Massive Performance Optimizations

Major internal system rewrites to reduce server load:

• Furnaces & cooking: Significant CPU reduction.
• Industrial system: Fewer expensive iterations in complex bases.
• Relationship system: Optimized calculations.
• Player colliders: More efficient queued updates.
• Parenting volumes: Reduced cost for boats and floating objects.
• Entity spawning: Fewer lag spikes during mass spawns.
• Auto turrets & mounted weapons: Reduced network load.
• Buoyancy: Multithreaded calculations.
• Physics engine and collision improvements.

🎁 Extras

• Twitch Drops tied to the naval event.
• Steam promotion linked to the patch release.

📌 Context

• Update delayed to ensure stability and optimization.
• Extensive work done on the staging branch before release.
• Technical preparations integrated into previous patches.