Rust’s latest Crafting Update has introduced new workbenches, farming mechanics, food systems, and crafting changes that will significantly impact how players survive and progress. If you’re looking for a detailed breakdown of every new feature, crafting recipe, and stat boost, you’re in the right place.
At Aero Rust, we always stay ahead of updates to ensure our modded Rust server offers the best gameplay experience while keeping balance and progression fun and fair. Let’s dive into everything you need to know about the new Rust crafting updates and how they’ll affect your strategy.
New Cooking Workbench – Expanded Crafting for Food
The Cooking Workbench is a brand-new deployable that allows players to craft a wider variety of food recipes. This workbench replaces the Mixing Table for cooking and introduces a more realistic and rewarding approach to food preparation.
What’s New with Cooking?
- Real-time Cooking Animations – Food now cooks visually in real-time on grills, campfires, and cooking stations.
- New Recipes & Ingredient Requirements – Some foods require specific combinations of ingredients, making farming and hunting more important.
- Better Food Buffs – Cooked food now offers increased healing, stamina boosts, and resistances.
All New Pies & Their Buffs
Eight new pie recipes have been added, each offering unique survival benefits. These pies can be crafted at the Cooking Workbench using ingredients found in the world.
- Chicken Pie: Gives a chance for better genes from crops for 5 minutes when planting seeds
- Apple Pie: Provides 15 minutes of 100% better night vision, enhancing visibility of node sparkles and bright X’s on trees
- Pumpkin Pie: Provides a boost to hunger, health, and hydration and increases max health for 10 minutes
- Hunter’s Pie: Provides a boost to hunger, health and hydration, and reduces bleeding for 15 minutes
- Fish Pie: Provides a boost to hunger, health, and hydration and increases base comfort level for 1 minute
- Pork Pie: Provides a boost to hunger, health, and hydration and improves healing rate from other sources for a short time
- Bear Pie: Applies “Digestion Boost” effect, doubles effect of harvesting Teas but halves their duration.
- Bread loaf: Eating it provides a small boost to health and hunger for 2 minutes
New Chicken Coop – Raising Your Own Food
Rust now lets players raise their own chickens for a steady supply of eggs and meat. This adds farming mechanics that reward players who invest in long-term survival.
How to Use the Chicken Coop
- Find a Chicken Egg – Gather eggs from wild chickens.
- Build & Place a Coop – Construct a Chicken Coop at your base.
- Raise the Chickens – Provide food, water, sunlight, and care to keep chickens healthy.
- Harvest Eggs Regularly – Once matured, chickens lay eggs consistently.
Managing a chicken farm will give players a reliable food source and make surviving more sustainable in the long run.
Beekeeping & Honey Production – A New Resource System
Bees are now part of Rust’s ecosystem, introducing new risk-reward mechanics for players looking to harvest honey.
How to Collect Honey in Rust
🐝 Find a Natural Beehive – Located on Oak Trees.
🔥 Use Fire or Smoke to Reduce Bee Attacks – Bees will defend their hive if disturbed.
🍯 Harvest Honeycomb – Collect honeycomb and Beehive Nuclei for crafting.
Build Your Own Beehive
- Crafted using Beehive Nuclei found in the wild.
- Produces honey over time depending on temperature and exposure.
- Harvest honeycomb for crafting food & medical supplies.
Bee Grenade – A Deadly New Weapon
- Crafting Recipe: 1 Empty Grenade, 3 Honeycomb, 1 Beehive Nucleus
- Effect: Releases a swarm of bees, attacking nearby players.
Fire and water neutralize bees, making Bee Grenades a strategic weapon for ambushes.
New Engineering Workbench & Hopper System
Rust now has an Engineering Workbench that specializes in:
🔧 Water, Electrical & Industrial Systems
🔋 Advanced Circuitry & Base Automation
🏗️ Efficient Industrial Setup for Faster Crafting
New Hopper System – Automate Your Base
- Automatically collects loot from nearby dropped items.
- Auto-harvests corpses for meat, fat, and bones.
- Works with storage boxes & industrial pipes for automation.
This update helps advanced base builders optimize resource gathering and automation.
Additional Rust Crafting Updates & Quality of Life Improvements
✔️ Meat Spoils Over Time – Raw meat lasts 6 hours, cooked meat 24 hours unless refrigerated.
✔️ Neon Signs Use Less Power – 50% power reduction for better base efficiency.
✔️ Wood Armor Costs Less – Lower crafting requirements for early-game protection.
✔️ Over 40 Items Have Faster Crafting Times – Less time waiting, more time playing.
✔️ New Plant Genetics Toggle – Hide genetic details for a cleaner farming interface.
Why Play on Aero Rust After the Crafting Update?
At Aero Rust, we’ve optimized our modded Rust server to make the new crafting updates even better.
🔥 Faster Smelting & Recycling – Helps balance longer crafting times.
🔧 Instant Authorization for Team Members – Less hassle for secure bases.
🚫 Active Anti-Cheat & Admin Moderation – No hackers, no unfair gameplay.
💰 Earn & Spend Aerocoins – Buy kits, weapons, and supplies without pay-to-win mechanics.
Join Aero Rust & Experience the Best Rust Modded Server
The new Rust crafting updates have made gameplay more strategic and immersive. Whether you’re a PvP expert, a builder, or a farmer, these changes will impact how you play.
At Aero Rust, we make sure every update enhances the experience while keeping gameplay fast, fun, and fair.
🎯 Ready for the best Rust experience? Join Aero Rust today!
