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JasonChang55 · 3rd January 2015

Rust’s Development
There are two different versions of Rust. When the game is launched in Steam players are asked if they want to Play Rust or play the Experimental Version. The version that launches with ‘Play Rust’ is the version that most people know about and are currently playing. It is currently the most stable. However, the Experimental Version is the focus of the development team, and it will eventually take over from the main version when it has sufficient features and when the majority of players have moved over. We do not have a timescale for that.

Experimental is a complete rewrite of Rust. It isn’t just a patch or an update. We’ve spent the past few months remaking the game from the ground-up, re-building it to enable us to fulfil our ambitions in a way that was impossible with the original release. This isn’t unusual: games get rebooted all the time, but we’re in Early Access and there’s no way to hide that, nor would we want to. It’s part of the process. We want to get the message out that we are working on Rust, just not on the version the majority of players are experiencing.

What Will Change?
The goal is to first get the experimental version to the same level of playability as the main game, but there are already fundamental differences that we’re excited about. We will update this list as development continues.

Procedural maps with a variety of landscape features, including caves and growing trees.
Swimming.
Cannibalism.
Faster, slicker UI written in HTML.
You can loot sleeping players, including adding and removing clothes (people seem fascinated by this).
Ballistic weaponry, so bullets are affected by the environment.
Biomes and weather cycles.
Doors with physical keys. You can lose the key…
Monuments.
Keep Up-To-Date On Rust’s Development
There’s a Friday update that details the work the team has done at this site. It covers everything. This week is good if you’re interested in the building aspect. If you’d like to be reminded of updates, sign-up to the mailing list and we’ll mail you about once a month, as well as when we hit the occasional milestone or make something amazing. Make sure you let us know who you are.

As you can probably tell, this hasn't been updated in a while. My friend was asking about the experimental version (hes thinking of buying it) and I got really confused and explained that experimental has been out for alot longer then he has known of the game and he linked me the page. He was wondering stuff like when or if they already moved over because he saw the devblogs and it took me awhile to catch on that the page was outdated. This isn't a rant or anything, just letting you guys know that there are outdated aspects in the site.