Here are some things that server owners might want to know is coming on the September 3 force wipe:

• Building:
  • Player count-based upkeep tax added to Tool Cupboards, with attempted carve-outs for small groups, player hotels, etc.
• Items:
  • Boat Building Plan research cost decreased
  • Composters reworked to act like furnaces/ovens
  • Heavy Plate Helmet and Semi-Auto Pistol (P2) crafting costs increased
  • Hazmat Suit and HMLMG crafting costs decreased
  • Homing Launcher and SAM Site targeting improved
  • Honey Bandage item added
  • Longsword attack speed and damage buffed
  • Most throwing weapon stack sizes reduced to 3-4
  • Pie duration selectively buffed
  • Prisoner Hood BP known by default
• Monuments:
  • Dome pumps limited to 1000 crude oil each
  • Drone marketplace now has an internal battery that requires charging from Power Plant grid power
  • Heavy monument blockers added to red keycard doors; destroy with explosives or wait 24 hours
  • Lesser monument blockers added to the outsides of some monuments; mine for metal/stone, may respawn?
  • Radioactive water buffed
• Resources:
  • Rare High Quality Metal nodes and collectables (pickups) added
  • Swamp tree wood yield increased from 300 to 1000
• Vehicles:
  • Attack Helicopter and Hot Air Balloon armor now progressively falls off with damage
  • Car handling changed
• Modding breakage:
  • CanAcceptItem and CanAcceptBackpackItem hooks are broken in at least Carbon staging at the moment
  • Composter rework has caused the Oxide OnComposterUpdate hook to be deprecated in favor of OnOvenCook
  • HelicopterDebris.tooHotUntil has been removed in favor of using a timed invoke with delay specified by HelicopterDebris.coolDownTime constant
  • Satellite crash event crates changed from TimedUnlootableCrate entity type to LockedByEntCrate type used by Bradley/Heli crates

Disclosure: I’m the developer behind Pulse Admin.

The problem I wanted to solve wasn’t sending more console commands. It was giving administrators reliable context without making the administrator part of the incident.

Pulse Admin’s observation workflow gives an administrator a rotating cover identity and removes the observer from untrusted clients’ network views. The administrator appears offline to players, while the observation session remains visible to authorised staff through the audit log.

That observation can then become an evidence-led case containing native anti-cheat signals, player reports, combat events, movement replay, recordings and Investigation Hammer checks.

The wider workspace also includes:

• A cloud-connected RCON relay

• A live 3D island and player map

• Compact and expanded Companion app workspaces

• Player cards and moderation controls

• Plugin inventory and deployment tools

• Fleet broadcasts, bans and audit history

• Importing existing BattleMetrics bans, notes and flags

• Public server events, shop activity and player/server rankings

I made a three-minute overview showing how the pieces fit together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2mcaMIsbsI

I’m not advertising a Rust server or recruiting for a community here. I’m looking for honest feedback from people who actually administer Rust servers:

1. Would private observation like this be useful to your moderation team?

2. What evidence do you need before acting on a cheating report?

3. Which parts of your current admin workflow feel most fragmented?

4. What would you need to see before trusting a cloud-connected admin tool?

Critical feedback is welcome. I’d rather find the weak points during beta than after release.

Production note: the narration and some cinematic transitions are AI-assisted. The product workflows shown represent the current beta.

I have an RCE server through G-Portal and we use Helios as our Discord bot. I've heard about server owners being able to turn down the stability so that building is easier, but stability isn't fully disabled. Is this true? If so, how can I change that setting? All I've been able to find is the on/off toggle in G-Portal.

Hey friends,

My cousin and I want to play rust just the two of us on a PVP server.

What service should I use to rent? I did a quick search and multiple show up.

Any recommendations for just two players? We watched Peanut’s stream and need to give this game a go.

For those that didn’t know the convar to activate power plant all the time is

“powergrid.simulatepowerplantfuses”

followed by a space and then the number of fuses you want it to simulate being installed. I run a few pve servers and have tested this and it works.

Just figured I’d share so if anyone was wondering you CAN do it and do not need a plugin.

So I'm upgrading my hardware soon anyway, but I noticed on my server that there is a quick but very noticeable lag spike right before Deep Sea spawns. This is the only time my server FPS really drops as well. Is this something other servers are experiencing?

Mevent and OxideBro released a plugin that consisted of my code ran through AI. This is after OxideBro has pirated my plugins and bragged about it.

When confronted, Mevent stated only 30k lines were copied for “backwards compatibility”. After going public with the evidence, Mevent has now backpedaled and apologized, but only after it had been removed from all platforms.

Unfortunate to see from this community, especially from someone who has access to customer plugins and suppose to be preventing piracy, not contributing to it.

Beware of Mevent and Oxide Bro - These members should be removed from all platforms.

For proof, feel free to DM myself or Mr Blue, who has done several comparisons of the plugins.

Previous conversations with Mevent:

OxideBro bragging about pirating my plugins:

Facepunch has disabled the ability to download them, and I really enjoy digging through old builds. I wanted to play around with one on a local server.

Hello! I'd like to know what monuments are fine to exclude on a 3500 size map here in 2026. I have a low pop server so I require a small map, but obviously too many monuments leaves little room to build.

hi i have a hybrid pve/pvp server and i was wondering if anyone knew of a safe plugin i could use to track online and offline players.

i see on videos where people can see names and where they are looking from across the map and im interested in something along the lines of that.

thanks in advance!

Hey all as the title says. We have just built a small rust server for our community in OCE. Just looking for feedback and possibly some help around how to make it better and what plugin are a must. If you are willing to guide us and help us grow we would love that. Thanks for your time.

/yHDcsH87K6

Is our discord.

Hi all,

I know better loot exists. My issue is I want vanilla loot but components and scrap are 2x and I can remove custom junk.

I’ve also tried magic loot and the junk list doesn’t seem to work. Better loot the issue is I must have the prefabs enabled to remove junk and do 2x but then the tables aren’t vanilla.

I just want it to be simple 2x.

Update: We’ve already found someone to work with. Thanks to everyone who reached out!

Update: Primarily looking for an existing/working server with active online players (with economy, shop, donation system already set up). Open to a from-scratch build as a secondary option.

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to either buy a ready-made Rust server project or find a developer to build one for me.

What I need:

- Fully set up server with admin panel (Pterodactyl or similar)

- Shop plugin with payment integration

- Donate system

- Additional plugins for economy/QoL (open to suggestions)

Budget: Open to offers

Timeline: ASAP

Looking for serious offers only — please share pricing, what's included, and examples of previous work if you're offering to build one.

Contact me on Discord: miracleofsoul

Anyone running a local Rust Server onboard a M1 iMac, can load Asahi Linux instead one MacOS. Updating to a newer Mac and would like to setup local server for a small group of friends.

Hey all, anyone else still use RCON.IO and have issues since yesterday? I was abruptly logged out and shown a 404 error. Was like this most of the day on Monday the 17th. Sometime in the afternoon a new website popped up, boasting of a new RCON with untold powers...accompanied with a message about it being "Free For Now" until they decide to start charging. I logged in to this new version and entered my credentials, it does not work. Noticed a link for the old version. That did not work. I tried reaching out to them on Discord...I was responded to like this was my first time seeing the internet. Yes...all of a sudden the saved IPs, ports and passwords I've had saved for YEARS in my browser that no longer work simply MUST be being entered incorrectly.

Hey all, anyone else still use RCON.IO and have issues since yesterday? I was abruptly logged out and shown a 404 error. Was like this most of the day on Monday the 17th. Sometime in the afternoon a new website popped up, boasting of a new RCON with untold powers...accompanied with a message about it being "Free For Now" until they decide to start charging. I logged in to this new version and entered my credentials, it does not work. Noticed a link for the old version. That did not work. I tried reaching out to them on Discord...I was responded to like this was my first time seeing the internet. Yes...all of a sudden the saved IPs, ports and passwords I've had saved for YEARS in my browser that no longer work simply MUST be being entered incorrectly.

I'm currently in the process of making the ultimate all-in-one Admin Toolkit for Rust. It will include everything, for example:

• simple vanish
• player activity
• player moderation
• entity-owner tools
• tc authing
• auth clearing
• owner assigning
• entity transform tools
• remove tools
• staff logging
• trash clearing
• time/weather options
• entity/dropped item/npc counts
• RAM report
• uptime
• reports
• radar
• server tools
• private messaging
• inventory management
• watchlist/kick/ban logs
• discord integration
• and much more

All in a simple dashboard, and admin toolgun.

I'm showing this hoping to get feedback on whether this would be useful to some of you guys, and some features you wish you could have, that aren't present in the many current admin plugins we have access to.

Here are a few early screenshots of the plugin dashboard:

Hey everyone,

I made a small free plugin called Turret Reskinner that lets server owners customize the skins used by safe-zone turrets around the map.

You can configure different skins for different monument groups, including places like Bandit Camp, Fishing Villages, Ranches and other safe-zone locations. Outpost can also be configured separately.

The plugin only targets the intended safe-zone turrets and leaves player-owned turrets alone. Setting a skin back to 0 restores the original appearance.

It supports both Oxide and Carbon.

I mainly made it because I wanted a simple way of giving safe zones a bit more visual identity without having to manually mess with the turrets every wipe.

It’s completely free if anyone wants to try it:

Turret Reskinner - Rust Plugin by duff | RogueDepot

I use binds to craft my kits, med and ammo. It saves me so much time running out of base..

So I made a tool to make the binds for me

I thought you guys might like it!

To use: You select all the items and amounts that you want the bind to craft. You select your preferred keybind. You copy the command and drop it in console! :)

Looking for help with spinning up a server on my zimaos server, does anyone have a docker compose with oxide

Has anyone tried this tool? It looks promising.

https://www.rustserveradmin.com/

August force wipe lands on Thursday, August 6. Here are the major changes that I think might be relevant to fellow server owners. Sorry for the extreme detail, but I expect there would be a lot of questions otherwise:

Items

• Auto Turret HQM crafting cost increased to 25, up from 10
• Game Room DLC added
• Heavy Fuse item added, with approximately 10% chance of appearing in brown and green crates
• Modular Car Lifts can now be used to extract Crude Oil from tanker modules
  • The process is currently confusing - may initially require a Water Jug in your inventory
• Stone Sculpture item added (DLC?)
• Thruster Module item added
  • Acquired from mining crashed satellites
  • Players can recycle into Explosives
  • Explosives amount depends on durability
  • Durability depends on fuel remaining after player maneuvers

Maps/World

• Procedural map generation now more aggressively places monuments
• Satellite Crash event added
  • Called from Launch Site
  • Crash sites are highly radioactive (51 rads)
  • Spawns satellite debris and 3 flaming crates
  • Debris field map icon shown (like with Bradley / Patrol Helicopter)
  • Crates contain HQM, Tech Trash, Cameras, and/or Laptops
  • Satellite debris can be mined for Solar Panels and Thruster Modules
• Some telephone poles along roads have been modified
  • Can be climbed by players without a ladder
  • When Power Plant is active, transformers produce power, plus a 100Hz humming sound
  • Players can attach wires to transformers via a Wire Tool
  • Connections are protected by Tool Cupboard building privilege
  • Cannot be connected to Root Combiners
• Water spigots spawn in random locations on procgen maps
  • Players can attach hoses to them via a Hose Tool
  • When Power Plant active and Water Treatment valve is opened, taps produce water

Modding

• Breaking changes have been made to BaseCombatEntity.EntityBuildCost
• The game's JSON library has been updated
  • May cause strange plugin behaviors such as writing extra data alongside x/y/z coordinates
• Added support for parenting ddraw items to a net ID
  • My require manual removal even when the parent is killed
• Added support for CUI-based radial menus

Monuments

Airfield

• Computers have been added to the main aircraft control tower
  • When Power Plant is active, players can insert regular or heavy fuses to charge terminals
  • One fuse inserted charges Supply Drop, two fuses charges CH47
  • Once full charge is reached on CH47 terminal, its button calls a Hackable Crate
  • Once full charge is reached on Supply Drop terminal, Supply Drops will occur twice as often until battery fully discharges

Launch Site

• Satellite control panel added to largest office building
  • When Power Plant is active, players can pay 12 Tech Trash 10 Tech Trash and 1 MLRS Aiming Module to cause a satellite to crash near a specified location
  • Players can make a limited number of adjustments to the crash location
  • Crash locations reportedly avoid bases
  • Triggering a crash starts a 10 minute countdown

Oil Rigs

• Timer switches added to hackable crate rooms
  • When Power Plant is active, players can flip switches to activate Crude Oil pumps at The Dome
  • Switches are additive, so activating both produces even more Crude Oil

Oxum's Gas Station

• Garage door can now be raised/lowered via a switch
• Low-Grade Fuel powered generator added
• Vehicle lift insided the garage is now functional
• When Power Plant or onsite generator is active, players can now open/close the garage door and raise/lower/use the vehicle lift

Power Plant

• 2 Heavy Fuse panels added to green room
  • Players can insert Heavy Fuses to activate Power Plant grid power
  • Fuses cannot be removed, and attempting to do so causes players to take damage
  • Power level increases with number of fuses inserted; not sure yet what all is affected by different levels
  • Lights above panels indicate current power level
  • Fuses last for 9600 seconds by default (powergrid.fuselifespanseconds convar)
• Red Recycler added to green building, near replacing the green recycler
• Extra loot added to blue room that can only be accessed when Power Plant is active

The Dome

• Spiral staircase towers are now around a meter shorter
• Crude pumps added to the base of one of the towers
  • When Power Plant is active and switches are enabled at one or both Oil Rigs, pumps fill with Crude Oil
  • Players can extract crude from the pumps by using a Hose Tool to connect them to a vehicle's tanker module

Water Treatment

• Gearbox added to parkour tower
  • When Power Plant is active, players can insert gears and turn water valve
• One concrete water tank modified
  • Arm spins when valve is open
• Water spigots added next to concrete water tank
  • Players can drink water and/or fill jugs from them

Recyclers

• Red recycler:
  • Only works when Power Plant is active at max level
  • When Power Plant is active, operates at 75% efficiency
• Green recyclers:
  • Now default to only 50% efficiency, down from 60%
  • Efficiency increases back to 60% when Power Plant is active
• Safe zone recyclers:
  • No changes (aux03 branch experiments were abandoned by Facepunch)

so I just started a server and I got a discord going and everything but now i’m struggling to find people to be interested in the server i’ve joined about every rust community and i’ve promoted it a bunch. i’ve already tried discord,facebook, and reddit but none of them seem to work.

also completely off topic but i do need 2-3 admins that would be interested it has 0 pop but dm me if interested

I have long history with Rust and procedural servers, but end of first monthly with custom map is looming and I am starting to panic that will it work on wipe day as new players need it to be accessible on day one or it dies.

So, what would be the most common pitfalls to avoid? Thanks in advance!