Rust Friends with Benefits patch notes (July 3, 2025): New party system, deployable snapping, and more

The Rust Friends with Benefits patch notes for July 3, 2025, are live. The latest update brings some interesting quality-of-life changes to the game, including a newly revamped party system, deployable snapping, Outpost missions, and much more. It definitely feels like it's geared towards fine-tuning the player experience rather than adding a lot of major content.

This article lists everything included in the Rust Friends with Benefits patch notes.

Rust Friends with Benefits patch notes for July 3, 2025

Features

New Main Menu Party system
New mission to unlock an Outpost spawn point
New deployable snapping system
Storage tanks added to Abyss DLC pack

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Improvements

Improved Procedural erosion
Turrets in peacekeeper mode now display a holster warning to offending players (like the old safe zones)
Optimized Turrets aiming calculations on the server
Applied new camera viewmodel animation to most older held items
Patrol Helicopter will only flee up to 1 grid tile
Patrol Helicopter will always flee towards a monument
Patrol Helicopter flee location is now shown on the map
Patrol Helicopter will no longer flee if attacked from a monument
Can now invite Friends to team from inventory (including offline players)
Can now invite players to team from RMB chat popup
Weapons are now holstered when surrendering
Added “fps.startlogging”, outputs a csv of frametimes (“stoplogging” to stop)
Spray Can now reskin large objects (external gates/walls) from further away
“Quit” command is no longer saved in F1 history between sessions
Added UI sounds slider (affects headshot sounds)
Improved performance when there are a large number of water bodies in the world
Wire slack controls now have dedicated keybinds
Can now bind mouse wheel movement to keybinds
Removed driftwood from buildable cave sections
Upped texture resolution on the Fridge in the Workshop from 1024 to 2048
The `lookingat` command now provides more useful information
Added `killbees` admin command
Snakes now handle LOS visibility better client-side

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