Rust July Wipe: Common Ground Adds Clans, Rentable Shops, and Raid Windows
The July 2 force wipe delivered the Common Ground update, introducing an official clan system, rentable shops and an apartment complex, doubled resource gathering, and scheduled raid windows.
Headline feature
Common Ground was built around making group play and server economies feel more structured. The biggest addition is an official clan system: players can now craft a clan table, place it in their base, and use it to formally create and manage a clan, available as early as a Tier 1 workbench. This replaces a lot of the informal Discord and sticky note approach groups have relied on for years with something built directly into the game, letting clans track membership and coordination without leaving Rust itself.
Rentable shops and apartments
On the economy side, the update introduced rentable shops and a new apartment complex monument, giving players and groups a way to establish a legitimate commercial presence rather than relying purely on base vending machines scattered across the map. This pairs naturally with the clan system, since organized groups now have both the social structure and the physical space to run something resembling an in-game business.
Resource rates and raid windows
Facepunch also doubled base resource gathering rates, giving twice as much ore, wood, food, and animal loot from the same actions, a change that should speed up early wipe progression noticeably. The more structurally significant change, though, is the introduction of raid windows, which limit when normal raiding can take place. By default, raiding is open from 6pm to 9pm local server time, meaning offline raiding outside that window is no longer possible on servers using the default configuration. This is a meaningful shift for anyone who plays casually and has historically dreaded logging in to a wiped base after a long day at work.
Cosmetics
The Glowing Wallpaper Pack also launched alongside the wipe, a cosmetic DLC bundle with 27 wall, floor, and ceiling wallpaper designs including neon patterns, glowing graffiti, and glow in the dark carpet options for players who want their base to stand out visually.
What this means for the wipe
This is a wipe aimed squarely at making group organization and casual play less painful. The clan system gives groups real tools instead of workarounds, doubled resource rates speed up the early grind, and raid windows fundamentally change base defense planning since players finally know exactly when they need to be online and watching their base. Expect base designs and defense schedules to shift heavily around the new raid window mechanic in the weeks following this wipe.