Rust Livestock Update (October 2026): Cows, Sheep, Milk and the Biofuel Generator

Rust's October update, called Livestock, came out on October 1. It is the biggest farming update the game has had. Here is what is new and what it means when you play.

Cows and sheep

You can now find and raise two farm animals: cows and sheep.

• Cows give milk. Sheep give wool.
• Both drop dung, and both can be killed for meat, bones and leather.
• Like plants, they have genetics. You can breed them to get better animals.

New food: milk, cream and pies

Milk is a new ingredient.

• Raw milk can sit in a fridge for 4 hours, then you can turn it into skimmed milk and cream.
• Add milk to tea and the tea lasts longer. Add cream and the tea gets stronger.
• New meat: beef and mutton.
• New meals: Shepherd's Pie and Beef Pie.

Sell your animals

You can sell grown animals to the NPCs at the Stables. You get a random offer based on the animal's genetics.

• You can say no three times. After that, the vendor won't buy from you for 15 minutes.
• Wool works the same way. The reward is bigger the more wool you bring, up to 400 at a time.

Biofuel Generator

This new deployable turns raw or spoiled meat into Low Grade Fuel. You have to stir it by hand about every 30 minutes. You can hook it up to IoT to get a ping when it needs you. How much fuel you get depends on how much food value goes in.

Small animals

Frogs, rabbits, squirrels, sea turtles, crabs and jellyfish now live in the world. They are just for looks. Facepunch made them cheap to run so they won't hurt your FPS.

Power rooms at 13 monuments

New locked loot rooms now sit at 13 monuments, including Airfield, Launch Site, Missile Silo, Water Treatment and Military Tunnels. You open them with Heavy Fuses from the Power Plant.

• Heavy Fuses now last longer on quiet servers. At 10 players or fewer they last 4x as long. At 100+ players it goes back to normal.
• The small fuse box moved outside the Power Plant building. You reach it through a broken window.

Sandbags and the Bandit Camp helipad

• Sandbags now stack up in four stages, getting taller each time, and the last stage is a pillbox. Crafting costs less. Found sandbags come in bundles of 4, and a stack holds up to 20.
• The Bandit Camp helipad needs the community to put in resources before the air vehicle vendor works. That slows down early-wipe helicopters for everyone.

Fixes and speed

• Grenades, C4 and satchels now feel instant even on high ping. The game guesses the throw on your screen, and the server fixes it if it was off.
• A new Rust Render Pipeline replaces the old Unity one, for better performance. You can switch back in the experimental settings for one month.
• Big memory savings, from about 100 MB up to 450 MB in some cases.
• Animation work saves about 1 ms per frame on a 100-player server.
• Crashes now upload on their own, so Facepunch can fix them faster.
• Over 40 bug fixes, including boat clipping, campfire cooking speed and Oil Rig radiation timing.

Also new

• A refreshed Machete model and animations
• 11 new achievements
• Every kind of ladder hatch can have Workshop skins
• The Plague Doctor Hazmat Suit DLC
• A cleaner country picker in the server browser

What's next

The Halloween update is coming October 22. It needs a server and client update.

Source: Facepunch's official Livestock update notes at rust.facepunch.com.