Rust’s paid catalog is best understood as a set of social props, playable toys, downloadable music, and visual themes. It gives a group more ways to decorate a base, communicate, perform, or restyle familiar equipment; it does not sell a separate progression path. That makes the exact product names matter, especially when “Assault Pack” appears in an older list.
Start with the product category
The official Rust store and Steam DLC page currently list five standalone products:
- Instruments: 10 playable musical instruments, including MIDI support.
- Sunburn: 15 summer-themed items built around photography, beach props, and water play.
- Voice Props: recording, playback, communication, lighting, dance, and music equipment.
- Soundtrack: 29 downloadable tracks in FLAC and MP3.
- Warhammer 40,000 Pack: a licensed visual theme for selected clothing, weapons, and storage.
These products are separate from Rust’s rotating or permanent item store. The store also sells themed packs and individual skins, including visual replacements for existing weapons and armor. A DLC pack can add an item you deploy or play with; an item-store pack generally changes the appearance of something Rust already has. Neither category is a substitute for learning the game’s survival loop.
Sunburn is the social pack
Sunburn’s value is concentrated in activities that make a base or beach a destination. Its 15 listed goodies are:
Sunburn adds beach props and photography to Rust’s social spaces.
- Instant Camera
- Three Photo Frames
- Four swimwear-themed underwear skins for male and female characters
- Water Gun with four skins
- Water Pistol
- Boogie Board with six skins
- Inner Tube with seven skins
- Above Ground Pool
- Paddling Pool with four skins
- Beach Recliner with eight skins
- Beach Parasol with eight skins
- Beach Table
- Beach Towel with seven skins
- Sunglasses with eight skins
The camera and frames are the most distinctive part: they let you turn the disposable events of a wipe into something you can display. The pools, floats, and water weapons do the opposite—they create a reason to stay in one place and interact when nobody is farming, raiding, or defending. Sunburn suits groups that treat Rust as a social sandbox as much as a survival game.
Instruments and Voice Props turn a base into a venue
Instruments is for players who want to perform. Its 10 instruments are the Wheelbarrow Piano, Junkyard Drum Kit, Xylobones, Plumber’s Trumpet, Sousaphone, Cowbell, Canbourine, Jerry Can Guitar, Shovel Bass, and Pan Flute. MIDI-compatible keyboards and devices are supported, so the pack can accommodate an actual player rather than only a decorative setup.
The Wheelbarrow Piano is one of the ten playable instruments in the Instruments Pack.
Voice Props extends that performance layer into communication. Its main tools are:
- Cassette Recorder and three cassette lengths for recording audio
- Boombox and Portable Boombox for playback and radio streams
- Megaphone and Microphone Stand for projecting a voice
- Music Light, Music Lasers, Disco Floor, and Connected Speaker for a powered dance space
- Mobile Phone, plus three dance gestures and seven achievements
The practical distinction is control: Instruments lets you make music, while Voice Props lets you capture, broadcast, and route sound around a base. That is useful for announcements, jokes, warning systems, and team rituals—not for improving a rifle or a wall.
Keep the Soundtrack outside Rust; wear Warhammer inside it
The Rust Soundtrack is a downloadable listening product, not an in-world item pack. It contains 29 tracks, more than an hour of ambient music, and files in FLAC and MP3, composed and mastered by Alex Rehberg. It is the straightforward choice if you want Rust’s atmosphere while you are away from the server.
The Warhammer 40,000 Pack gives familiar Rust equipment a licensed Death Korps of Krieg theme.
The Warhammer 40,000 Pack is an in-game visual set. Facepunch’s official description lists the Death Korps of Krieg Hazmat Suit, Backpack, Shotgun, Chainsword, and Storage Containers. Those are themed versions of familiar Rust equipment and storage, so the pack’s appeal is visual consistency rather than a new equipment tier.
An assault-rifle skin is not an Assault Pack
The current official Rust DLC listings do not include a standalone product called “Assault Pack.” That label is best treated as a stale wiki entry, not as a product to search for. Facepunch’s item store does contain themed packs with assault-rifle skins, including the Abyss, Arctic, and Jungle packs, but those are separate store products and do not establish an Assault Pack DLC.
Use the product category as your buying rule:
- Want photos, pools, and beach props? Look at Sunburn.
- Want instruments or MIDI performance? Look at Instruments.
- Want recorded audio, radios, phones, or a dance setup? Look at Voice Props.
- Want music files for outside the game? Look at the Soundtrack.
- Want a coordinated military look for existing gear? Look at Warhammer 40,000.
If the listing says “Assault Pack,” verify it against the official Rust store before treating it as Rust DLC.