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Video gaming is presently in an arms race (or ought to that be ‘farms race’) to depict probably the most delectable digital meals attainable. It’s a race variously led by the Yakuza sequence, Final Fantasy, and most lately, Monster Hunter: Wilds, which contains a cheese naan so mouthwatering it triggered a gross sales surge of dairy-filled bread merchandise in Japan.
Now, brutal survival sim Rust is getting in on the culinary motion, with its arguably misnamed ‘Crafting replace’ putting an enormous emphasis on dwelling cooking. Described by developer Facepunch as bringing a “feast of adjustments” to the sport, it provides quite a few options devoted to the creation of haute delicacies.
First and foremost is the cooking workbench, a “new deployable that lets you cook dinner up some new meals recipes”. Items unlocked by the cooking workbench apparently provide stat and modifier bonuses, so there is a sensible purpose to don your chef whites (observe, don’t really don something white in Rust, except you wish to get shot).
The crafting replace additionally makes substantial adjustments to the act of cooking itself, with all meals objects getting a visible mannequin when positioned on cooking deployables, whereas that meals now “cooks in actual time”. You’ll see steaks brown, hen griddle, ribs crisp, and plenty of different meals verb in an alluring method. Likewise, meals spoils over time too, so you could be certain that meals is cooked or refrigerated to sluggish the decaying course of.
New meals objects you’ll be able to cook dinner embody bread, which comes bundled with the flexibility to develop and collect wheat, and a complete spectrum of pies, with every pie kind offering completely different stat and modifier bonuses. Cooking a pie additionally rewards you with an animation of your character wafting the recent pie odor towards their face, as you’ll be able to see within the replace’s launch trailer above.
Other new options embody natural teas you can also make to heat up or quiet down your character, a hen coop for domesticating wild fowl, an engineering workbench, and a “hopper” that may be hooked up to storage objects to suck up any close by dropped objects. This consists of any creature that’s killed in vary of the hopper, which will probably be “harvested” Fargo model. That’ll put you off your pie.
Anyway, now we have had the principle course and dutifully eaten our greens, we will transfer onto dessert. Rust is getting bees. BEES. The official greatest insect will create hives on wild oak timber, which you’ll be able to harvest for his or her scrumptious honeycomb (simply be certain that to put on a hazmat swimsuit so you do not get stung to demise). Bees can be farmed by constructing beehives, offering entry to what’s clearly the best online game weapon ever devised—the bee grenade.
This is, actually, only a jar stuffed with bees, which you’ll be able to lob at different gamers to make them *Eddie Izzard voice* COVERED IN BEES. Specifically, thrown swarms “will slowly create as much as 3 smaller Swarms to assault gamers in a close-by radius”. Bee swarms might be fought with fireplace and water, or by carrying a hazmat swimsuit. Alternatively, Facepunch suggests you “run just like the wind to get away”.
You can learn the complete particulars of the replace right here. I have never performed Rust in a really very long time, however I used to be sorely tempted to leap again in final month when Facepunch added siege weapons and swords in its primitive replace. Now the studio’s additionally added pies and bee grenades, that may simply be sufficient to drag me again in.
