Power Trip: what the August 2026 update changed at the monuments

Facepunch's August 2026 update, Power Trip, is the biggest change to how monuments relate to each other since the rail network. The headline: Power Plant is now restorable, and bringing it online feeds an island-wide electrical network that unlocks machinery, resources, events, and rewards across several connected monuments.

The headline changes

• Restorable Power Plant. Players can repair and restart the plant, making it the hub of a map-wide grid — and the most contested it has been in years.
• Player-maintained monuments. The update's theme: monuments players switch on and keep running, including the new Satellite Crash site and Dome pumping mechanics.
• Bar games and social fixtures continue the "Common Ground" direction from July's update.

What it means for keycard runs

We re-verified our monument guides after the patch. The keycard circuits themselves — cards, fuse counts, reader order — survived the update (every guide on this site carries its own verification stamp). What changed is the traffic: Power Plant is now a destination all wipe long, not just a card stop.