Rust’s October Livestock update expands farming with butcherable animals for meat, bones, leather, and fat, plus new fence and gate blueprints to build farms and breed for dung, milk, or wool.

A decay scaling system lengthens heavy fuse durability on low-population servers, while the power plant’s small fuse box is relocated for easier external access.

The Rust Livestock update is live now, with a Halloween event planned for October 22 that requires a server and client update to set the seasonal mood.

Technical improvements include a migration to a custom Unity render pipeline for better performance, with an option to switch pipelines during the transition.

After a wipe, players must break down and rebuild the Air Wolf helipad before using the air vehicle vendor, encouraging communal effort and delaying early vehicle access.

Decorative wildlife such as frogs, turtles, jellyfish, crabs, and squirrels are added, varying by biome.

Sandbags are redesigned to stack up to four rows for pillboxes, with lower crafting costs and higher stack caps; looted barricades now come in stacks of four.

Explosives gain client prediction for better responsiveness on high-ping servers, and the machete model plus animations are refreshed.

A biofuel generator converts meat (including spoiled or raw) into low-grade fuel, with higher calorific input yielding more fuel; spoiled meat can also be processed this way and requires manual stirring every 30 minutes.

Breeding adds genetics, with offspring inheriting parental genes that affect vendor value and production efficiency.

Loot rooms similar to the power plant appear at multiple monuments (airfield, junkyard, Radtown, trainyard, water treatment plant, nuclear missile silo), initially locked and needing heavy fuses to power up, with varying requirements by monument difficulty.

Players can sell fully grown livestock to ranches for randomized offers (up to two rejections and a 15-minute cooldown); wool can be traded in larger quantities via bulk deals.