Leak Suggests Rust May Be Getting a Pets Update, Above Ground Railway System

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While Rust does have its fair share of animal NPCs, they are largely vicious and would rather attack a player on sight than fetch a stick. There are some video games which have very notable animal companions, and given how difficult Facepunch Studios' open world title is, it perhaps wouldn't be too bad an idea to allow players to have in their employ a fairy sidekick. Well, there is a possibility that this could happen in a future update, which should please a lot of fans.

According to a recent video from YouTuber SHADOWFRAX, there's a chance that the studio behind Rust may indeed incorporate a pet system into the game. The information comes from the Facepunch commits page, and depicts a new category that mentions «pets.» There's currently not a lot of information on there at the time of writing, but there are a few comments and posts about something being developed or tweaked by some of the team, a number of which are blurred out, presumably to not give too much away at this stage.

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On top of that, there's also been a leak which may relate to a railway system. Last year, Rust did update with an underground railway network, but, according to the YouTube video, this latest development could be related to an above ground one. Custom maps do have these already, but speculations from the host suggest that the studio could officially add an above ground series of railway lines, and that it would possibly be procedurally generated. However, they do go on to say that such an implementation would be difficult as a rail network would need to take into account the generated terrain of the world.

Of course, there's very little to go on at this stage, especially with the railway idea.