What's New in Rust's "Devblog 102" Update

Devblog 102, dated March 2016 in our records, is a curiosity from Rust's weekly-devblog era: an entry with essentially nothing to report. In the days when Facepunch published a devblog every single week, some weeks were spent entirely on behind-the-scenes work — and this was one of them. The patch changelist for the week literally read "nothing".

A Quiet Week on the Island

No new features, no balance changes, no fixes worth listing — that's genuinely the whole story of this one. Weeks like this usually meant the team was heads-down on larger projects that weren't ready to ship, with the devblog serving as a progress check-in rather than patch notes. For players at the time, the servers simply kept running as they were.

The Workshop Kept Moving

One part of Rust never took a week off: the skin pipeline. This stretch of 2016 is tied to workshop cosmetics like The Peace Pipe and The Swampmaster, part of the steady drip of community-made items that would eventually grow into Rust's enormous skin economy. If you want to see how those early skins have fared on the market since, our skin tracker has the history.