October 2026: Livestock Update
The current Rust season ends on November 5, 2026. 12 days left.
Season ended This Rust season has ended. The next season's dates appear here as soon as the publisher confirms them.
In your time zone 19:00 UTC on Nov 5
| Location | Local time | Local date |
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| Los Angeles | 11:00 PST | Nov 5 |
| Chicago | 13:00 CST | Nov 5 |
| New York | 14:00 EST | Nov 5 |
| São Paulo | 16:00 GMT-3 | Nov 5 |
| London | 19:00 GMT | Nov 5 |
| Berlin | 20:00 CET | Nov 5 |
| Moscow | 22:00 GMT+3 | Nov 5 |
| New Delhi | 00:30 GMT+5:30 | Nov 6 +1 day |
| Singapore | 03:00 GMT+8 | Nov 6 +1 day |
| Tokyo | 04:00 GMT+9 | Nov 6 +1 day |
| Sydney | 06:00 GMT+11 | Nov 6 +1 day |
The end date is the publisher’s own timestamp, taken from an official announcement or the in-game season panel.
Facepunch Studios confirmed the end of the last 2 Rust seasons we tracked with 27 and 13 days' notice (newest first), measured from our daily record of this page. How accurate our estimates are.
Rust October 2026: Livestock Update ends on November 5, 2026 (verified October 24, 2026). November 2026 Update starts on November 5, 2026. Rust does not run seasons; it runs wipes. Facepunch ships a monthly update on the first Thursday of every month, and that update forces a simultaneous map and blueprint wipe on every server with no opt-out. The current cycle is the October 2026 Livestock Update, the game's biggest farming pass in years: tameable cows, bulls and sheep arrive with Animal Fences and Gates to pen them, a full chain of beef, mutton, milk, cream and wool, and new recipes from Beef Pie to Brioche Bread. It also adds a Biofuel Generator, Powergrid Lootrooms and a four-stage Sandbag Barricade rework. The countdown above runs to the next force wipe, on the first Thursday of November.
The next Rust force wipe hits Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 19:00 UTC (2:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM PT, 20:00 CET). Facepunch Studios ships a monthly update on the first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UK time (18:00 UTC during British Summer Time, 19:00 UTC after the UK clocks change in late October), and that update forces a map wipe on every Rust server. Blueprint wipes are up to each server's owner unless Facepunch forces a global one.
The current cycle is the Livestock Update, the October 2026 patch, which launched October 1, 2026. It is the game's biggest farming pass in years, adding tameable cows, bulls and sheep, Animal Fences and Gates to pen them, a full food chain of beef, mutton, milk, cream and wool, a Biofuel Generator, Powergrid Lootrooms and a four-stage Sandbag Barricade rework.
Facepunch named the October patch the Livestock Update. It centres on animal husbandry and farming, adding a whole production chain rather than a single monument or biome.
The update adds tameable cows, bulls, calves, sheep and lambs, plus smaller critters and swimmers across the map. New Animal Fence and Gate deployables let you pen and breed them, and a livestock vendor at Large Barn sells the starting stock. Animals produce resources over time rather than only on slaughter, so a working pen becomes a renewable food and materials source.
Livestock yields Raw, Cooked and Spoiled Beef and Mutton, Milk, Skimmed Milk, Cream and Wool. New recipes include Beef Pie, Shepherd's Pie and Brioche Bread, along with Creamy, Milky and Rich variants of the existing teas and pies. Facepunch has flagged Cream as an unusually strong consumable, so the dairy chain is worth building out early in a wipe.
A new Biofuel Generator turns organic output into power. Sandbag Barricades are reworked into four stackable stages, each taller than the last, with the final stage a pillbox. Powergrid Lootrooms add a new loot location, and the patch runs the usual round of balance and quality-of-life changes alongside the farming systems.
Rust has no battle pass, seasonal currency or ranked ladder, so nothing expires except the world itself. The force wipe is the deadline.
Every server must wipe its map when the monthly patch lands, because the update changes the network protocol. Bases, deployables, livestock pens, loot in boxes and everything on your character go with it. Blueprints are different: many servers wipe them on force-wipe day, but outside the occasional update where Facepunch forces a global blueprint wipe it is the server owner's choice. Check your server's description for its schedule.
Skins, DLC items and anything else in your Steam inventory are untouched by any wipe.
The November 2026 update is confirmed only in the sense that its date follows Facepunch's fixed rule: every monthly patch ships on the first Thursday of the month and forces the wipe, which puts the next one on November 5, 2026 at 19:00 UTC. Its name and contents have not been announced.
Facepunch normally teases changes on X and in its news posts during the week before, pushes the patch to the staging branch on wipe morning so Steam beta players can preview it, and publishes the full notes on rust.facepunch.com/news when servers restart.
Rust runs on monthly force wipes shipped by Facepunch on the first Thursday of each month at 19:00 UK time (18:00 UTC during British Summer Time, 19:00 UTC in winter). The cycle before the Livestock Update was the September 2026 Update (September 3 – October 1, 28 days), preceded by the Heavy Fuse Update (August 6 – September 3, 28 days), Common Ground (July 2 – August 6, 35 days), Built Different (June 4 – July 2, 28 days), and Upgrade Hard, Raid Harder (May 7 – June 4, 28 days).
Some community servers wipe more often (weekly BP wipes, biweekly map wipes), but every server must wipe on force-wipe Thursday when the monthly patch drops.
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Rust October 2026: Livestock Update ends on November 5, 2026 (verified October 24, 2026). November 2026 Update starts on November 5, 2026.
The next Rust force wipe is Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 19:00 UTC (2:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM PT). Facepunch ships a mandatory monthly update on the first Thursday of every month that wipes every Rust server simultaneously.
Facepunch's monthly force wipe lands at 19:00 UK time: 18:00 UTC during British Summer Time (2:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM PT, 20:00 CEST), shifting to 19:00 UTC after the UK clocks change in late October. The countdown above tracks it to the second.
Rust force wipes fall on the first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UK time (18:00 UTC in summer, 19:00 UTC in winter). Upcoming dates: Nov 5, 2026, Dec 3, 2026, Jan 7, 2027, Feb 4, 2027, and Mar 4, 2027. There are no exceptions and no opt-out for community servers.
The current cycle is the October 2026 Livestock Update, which launched October 1, 2026. It is the game's biggest farming pass in years: tameable cows, bulls and sheep, Animal Fences and Gates, a food chain of beef, mutton, milk, cream and wool, new recipes such as Beef Pie and Brioche Bread, a Biofuel Generator, Powergrid Lootrooms and a reworked Sandbag Barricade. It ends when the November 5, 2026 force wipe hits.
The next monthly Rust update lands with the November 5, 2026 force wipe. Facepunch typically reveals each month's headline feature on its staging branch and devblog about a week before the wipe, so the November patch's marquee item is not yet detailed. This page updates once it is announced.
No. Rust does not use a battle pass model. Facepunch sells cosmetic skins separately (in-game store and Steam Marketplace) but there is no time-limited seasonal pass to complete.
Rust October 2026: Livestock Update ends at November 5, 2026 at 19:00 UTC. In local time that is 14:00 EST on Nov 5 in New York, 11:00 PST on Nov 5 in Los Angeles, 19:00 GMT on Nov 5 in London, 20:00 CET on Nov 5 in Berlin, 04:00 GMT+9 on Nov 6 in Tokyo. Every conversion is derived from the official UTC timestamp, so cities east of UTC can already be on the following calendar day when the season closes.
Last checked October 24, 2026 Maintained by Salvador Jesus