A new Rust update 1.80 is available on PS4 and Xbox One. According to the official Rust Console 1.80 patch notes, the latest update introduces rideable horses, new equipment, and a mission system. Apart from this, Rust patch 1.80 also improves gameplay and enhances monument layouts.
Previously, a major Rust Halloween update 1.64 added a new event, changes and improvements. Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are experiencing several issues while playing the game. Today’s Rust version 1.80 will fix a few of these issues.
Read more details below.
Rust Console Update 1.80 Patch Notes – August 31, 2023
New Content and Features:
- Rideable Horses.
- Horse dung no longer spawns in the wild. Horses will produce it naturally.
- Horse equipment like double saddles, horse armor, horse shoes, and saddle bags.
- Two new safe zones – the Ranch and Large Barn.
- New monument layouts.
- New default blueprint – The Hitch and Trough.
- New NPC mission system.
- Sharks can now be found in the water and they are hostile towards the players.
- New weapon – The Speargun.
Gameplay:
- Reduced instances of the audio crash by deactivating certain game sounds.
- Player’s own footsteps sound is now disabled in the game.
- Fixed a bug allowing players to surf on projectiles.
- Fixed a bug causing sleeping players to take damage and be affected by status effects and hazards.
- Fixed a bug causing rapid depletion of Hunger and Thirst mechanics.
- Starvation and Dehydration statuses now cause incremental damage correctly.
- Fixed a bug causing Radiation damage to continue after debuff has disappeared.
- Fixed FPS drops when hitting objects with bullets.
- Fire effects no longer slow players in PvE.
- The Produce Exchange vendor now sells Scrap.
- HV Rockets now match the Steam version.
- Changed Bolt Action and L96 rifle controls to match the Steam version.
- Heavy scientists’ accuracy with M249 now matches the Steam version.
- Improved yield of bone fragments from Scientist’s body.
- Scientists’ projectiles now collide with sleeping players.
- Scientists can no longer hit each other with friendly fire.
- Scientists no longer disappear when killed.
- Fixed spawning bug causing players to spawn at lakes or freshwater pools.
- Fixed glitch causing items to clip through junkpiles.
- “Alive for” timer is now accurate.
- Fixed bug causing players to turn invisible when dying in safe zones and not waking up from sleep.
- Players no longer ragdoll through items when killed.
- Improved invalid shots issue.
- Fixed exploit with Wooden Ladders.
- Chickens are now harvestable.
- Fixed bug causing players to clip through the floor when being climbed on by another player.
- Fixed bug causing players to walk through trees and not harvest them.
- Fixed visual bug causing player to appear drawing back a bow when swimming.
- Improved load times for Monuments.
- Improved build restrictions at Monuments.
- Monuments are no longer generated in a way that restricts player movement.
- Fixed bugs in Bandit Camp and Outpost where players could get killed without triggering aggro timer.
- Fixed bug causing teleportation when auto-swimming in front of the Cargo Ship.
- Various fixes to monument rendering, placement, and visuals.
- Various fixes to object clipping, disappearing, and placement.
Miscellaneous:
- Improved load times.
- Improved build restriction at monuments.
- Monuments are no longer generated in a way that would restrict the player being able to travel around them.
- Fixed a bug causing players to get killed in Bandit Camp and Outpost without triggering aggro timer.
- Fixed a bug causing players to teleport when auto-swimming in front of the Cargo Ship.
- Ceiling lights and light switches in Check Point Building are now correctly placed.
- The Airfield Tunnel now renders properly.
- Fixed a bug causing part of the underground tunnel in Airfield to be misplaced on the terrain surface.
- Fixed invisible train at Power Plant monument.
- Fixed a bug causing Sewer Branch to not connect to terrain.
- Rocks around the Sewer are more consistent and no longer block exits.
- Fixed a bug causing crates to spawn stacked at the Trainyard.
- Locked Crates no longer get stuck on the lamp post in Trainyard.
- Bodies are now lootable in Trainyard.
- Fixed a bug causing players to phase through the wall at Launch Site.
- Fixed a visual issue causing a blinding haze around the Bandit Camp.
- Fixed a bug causing bandits to all face the same direction at the Bandit Camp.
- Fixed visual flicker in the gambling room when looking at the chair.
- Fixed a bug causing players to be looted through the Blue Keycard room wall in the Water Treatment Plant.
- Cargo Heli Drop now drops crates more evenly to monuments across the map.
- Fixed a bug causing players to move erratically whilst standing on top of a moving conveyor belt in Quarry Monument.
- Sheet metal at Quarries now no longer resembles wood at a distance.
- The Hobo Barrel at the Outpost no longer floats.
- Fixed a bug causing boxes found the the Tugboat in Small Harbor to clip.
- Fixed visual issue with fire particles at Large Oil Rig.
- Scientists are no longer able to walk through crates at Oil Rig.
- Fixed a bug causing the Satellite Dish to become see-through.
Download free Rust version 1.80 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.