Rust Item Store: Reset Time, Prices & This Week’s Skins (2026)

Every Thursday a new batch of skins shows up in Rust, and a week later it is gone. That weekly shop is the Rust Item Store, and it is where almost every popular skin in the game started life, from garage doors to AK skins. If you have ever wondered when the store resets, why a skin you skipped now costs three times as much, or why some items you bought can never be sold, this guide has the answers.

This Rust item store guide covers what the store sells, the exact reset time in your time zone, how to buy, the current set with market prices, what happens to a skin after its week, and which store items you can trade or sell. For everything else about cosmetics, including how to apply them and the most expensive ones, see our Rust skins guide.

• What It Is
• Reset Time
• How to Buy
• This Week
• Prices
• Tradable or Not
• After the Week
• Recent Sets
• Tips
• FAQ

What Is the Rust Item Store?

The Rust Item Store is Facepunch’s official shop for cosmetic items. Nothing in it changes how an item works: a skinned garage door has the same HP as a plain one, and a skinned rifle has the same recoil. You pay for the look.

The store is really three shops in one:

The weekly limited skins are the part most players mean when they say “item store”. Artists submit them through the Steam Workshop, Facepunch picks a handful each week, and the artist gets a share of every sale. Once a limited skin’s week is over it never goes back on sale in the store, so the only supply left is whatever players already bought.

The permanent store arrived later. Facepunch added it to give new players a set of premium cosmetics that are always available, starting with the Nomad Suit (a hazmat suit skin), new lights, underwear and a used sofa. To keep those separate from the weekly skins, Facepunch made them untradable: they sit in your account and have no resale value.

When Does the Rust Item Store Reset?

The store resets every Thursday. The new limited set usually goes live by 20:00 UTC, and the previous week’s set leaves at the same moment. Some weeks it lands an hour or so earlier, so if you are after a specific skin from the current set, buy it before Thursday afternoon (UTC).

How to Buy From the Rust Item Store

You can buy store items in the game or on Steam. Both use your Steam account, and the item shows up in the same place either way.

1. Open the Item Store. Start Rust and click Item Store in the main menu, before you join a server. You can also open the Rust Item Store page on Steam in a browser.
2. Pick an item. The weekly limited skins, the permanent store and the packs are all listed. Each item shows its price and a preview.
3. Pay through Steam. Checkout goes through Steam, so you can use your Steam Wallet balance, a card or PayPal.
4. Use it. The item goes into your Steam inventory and shows up in game. Pick the skin in the crafting menu before you craft, reskin an item you already have at a Repair Bench, or use a Spray Can on something you have already placed.

This Week’s Rust Item Store (September 24, 2026)

The set that went live on Thursday, September 24, 2026 is on sale until the October 1 reset. It leans hard on armor: a full Apotheosis of War wood armor set, the Conquest metal face mask and chest plate, and Abyss gloves. The standout is the garage door skin, which is already listed on the market for well over its store price.

Market prices move every day, and prices during a skin’s store week are based on thin early listings, so treat them as a snapshot, not a forecast.

How Much Do Rust Item Store Skins Cost?

Facepunch sets a fixed price for each item for its week in the store. Most limited skins cost between $1.99 and $3.49. Big deployables like garage doors and furnaces tend to sit at the top of that range, while clothing and small items sit at the bottom. Packs and some premium permanent items cost more, often $9.99 or above.

Prices are in US dollars. Steam converts them to your local currency at checkout, so the exact number you see can differ a little by region.

Which Store Items Can You Trade or Sell?

This is the part that catches people out. Only the weekly limited skins become normal tradable items. Everything from the permanent store and every DLC pack is locked to your account forever.

What Happens After a Skin Leaves the Store

When the week ends, the skin disappears from the store and the Steam Community Market becomes the only place to buy it. From then on the price is set by players, not Facepunch.

• 7 day trade hold. Anything you buy from the store can’t be traded or listed on the market for 7 days after you buy it.
• 15% market fee. Every sale on the Steam Community Market loses 15% to fees, so a skin has to rise well above its store price before selling it makes a profit.
• Supply is fixed. Nobody can buy a new copy from the store once the week is over. Popular skins that sold few copies climb; skins that sold a lot, or that nobody wanted, often fall below their store price.

A few store skins have gone on to become some of the most valuable items in the game. The Punishment Mask, pulled from the store within hours in 2016, had a cheapest listing of around $2,250 in late September 2026. That is the rare exception: most skins end up worth less than you paid. To total up the skins you already own, see our Rust inventory value guide.

Recent Rust Item Store Sets

Here are the headline skins from the last few weekly sets and their lowest Steam Market listing on September 29, 2026.

The pattern is clear: door, shopfront and furnace skins that glow or have a strong theme hold their value best, and weapon skins from a popular set (Salvation, for example) do well too. If you use a double door or armored door on every base, those are the skins you will actually see the most.

Rust Item Store Tips

1. Buy what you’ll use. Treat store skins as cosmetics, not investments. Most end up cheaper on the market than in the store.
2. Check the market first. Older skins for the same item are often under $1 on the Steam Community Market.
3. Know the reset. The new set lands Thursday, usually by 20:00 UTC. Anything you want from the current set has to be bought before then.
4. Mind the 7 day hold. You can’t sell or trade a store purchase for a week, so you can’t flip a skin on day one.
5. Permanent means permanent. Permanent store items and packs can never be sold, so only buy them if you want them for keeps.
6. Reskin without crafting again. A Repair Bench changes the skin on an item in your inventory, and a Spray Can reskins items you have already placed, like doors and boxes.

Rust Item Store FAQ

Sources and Further Reading

• Official store: Rust Item Store on Steam
• Permanent store and its trade rules: Facepunch, Permanent Store
• Weekly store history and reset time: RustHelp, Weekly Rust Item Store
• Store history and market data: SCMM, Rust Item Store
• Market prices: Steam Community Market, Rust
• Applying, selling and the most expensive skins: whenisforcewiperust.com, Rust Skins