Rust console commands

Sets the server name that players see in the Rust server browser.

Sets the maximum number of players that can be connected to the server at the same time.

Sets the size of the procedural map in meters per side.

Sets the seed for procedural map generation; each seed and size pair makes a different map.

Toggles PvE mode, in which players cannot damage other players.

Kicks a player from the server, with an optional reason shown to them and in chat.

Bans a connected player by name, with a reason and an optional duration.

Makes a Steam64 ID a server owner, the highest admin level (auth level 2).

Writes the current settings, owners, moderators and bans to the server's config files.

Scales all decay damage: 1 is normal, 2 doubles it, 0 turns decay off.

Toggles instant crafting, so every craft finishes with no wait.

Sets how many simulation ticks per second the server runs.

Shuts the server down cleanly.

Schedules a server restart with a countdown and an optional message to players.

Prints the server's game version, build number and branch.

Makes a backup copy of the server's identity folder.

Sets the description text shown on your server's page in the server browser.

Sets the game mode the server runs, such as vanilla, softcore or hardcore.

Sets the URL of the banner image shown at the top of your server's browser page.

Sets the server identity, the folder name under server/ that holds saves, config and map data.

Sets the local IP address the server binds to, or all interfaces when left empty.

Sets the URL of the logo image shown next to your server in the server browser.

Sets the server's message of the day text.

Sets the UDP game port that players connect to.

Sets the UDP port the server answers Steam server browser queries on.

Reloads serverauto.cfg and server.cfg from the cfg folder and applies their values.

Saves the current world to disk immediately.

Sets how often, in seconds, the server automatically saves the world to disk.

Sets the comma-separated tags that the server browser uses to filter and label your server.

Sets the website link shown on your server's page in the server browser.

Prints the wipe timer status: next wipe date, schedule and time remaining.

Sets the day of the week the wipe timer counts down to, from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday).

Sets the hour of day for the wipe timer, with decimals for minutes (14.5 = 2:30 pm).

Sets the timezone the wipe timer uses, as a TZ database name like Europe/London.

Makes you, as an admin, invisible to other players.

Starts recording a server-side demo of a connected player.

Stops a running server-side demo recording for a player and saves the file.

Destroys every entity placed by one or more players, given by Steam64 ID.

Toggles the in-game admin panel for admins.

Bans a player by Steam64 ID, even when they are offline.

Lists all banned players with their Steam IDs, names and ban reasons.

Kicks every connected player, with an optional reason.

Makes a Steam64 ID a server moderator (auth level 1).

Mutes a connected player so they cannot send chat messages.

Removes moderator status from a Steam64 ID.

Removes owner status from a Steam64 ID.

Kicks a player silently, without announcing it in chat.

Gives a Steam64 ID permission to skip the connection queue when the server is full.

Puts you into spectator mode, optionally following a specific player.

Teleports you to a player, or teleports one player to another.

Teleports you to the centre of a map grid square such as A1 or B3.

Teleports you to the marker you placed on your in-game map.

Teleports a player to your current position.

Teleports you, or a named player, to exact world coordinates.

Removes a ban for a Steam64 ID so the player can join again.

Removes a chat mute from a connected player.

Shows the recent combat log: who hit whom, with what, for how much damage.

Prints every tool cupboard on the server.

Refills health, food and water for you or the named players, reviving them if downed.

Kills your own character, the usual way to get unstuck or respawn quickly.

Kills a specific player instantly by name, Steam64 ID or bot name.

Prints a compact table of connected players with ping and network stats.

Picks a downed player back up from the wounded state.

Lists players who are offline but still in the world as sleepers.

Prints the connected players with Steam ID, name, ping, connection time and address.

Shows the members of a player's team with Steam ID, name, online status and leader.

Resets a player's blueprints to the default set, removing everything they learned.

Unlocks every craftable blueprint for a player.

Toggles whether players drop their backpack as a separate loot bag when they die.

Wakes up every sleeping player on the server at once.

Sets the maximum number of players in a team; 0 disables teams.

Toggles whether downed players can crawl while waiting to be revived.

Toggles whether players drop their inventory when they die.

Sets how many minutes a player can be idle before being kicked; 0 turns it off.

Sets who the idle kick applies to: nobody, non-admins only, or everyone including admins.

Scales how fast metabolism ticks; lower values slow hunger and thirst.

Scales time to kill in PvP: 2 makes fights last twice as long, 0.5 half as long.

Toggles the wounded state, where fatally hurt players go down instead of dying at once.

Sets how many seconds a player corpse stays in the world before it despawns.

Toggles fog of war, which keeps the map covered until players explore it.

Toggles hiding the player's own position marker on the in-game map.

Sets which map the server loads, such as Procedural Map, Barren or a custom map.

Sets a download URL for a custom map file that the server loads instead of a generated map.

Toggles whether players can open the in-game map.

Sets how many markers each player can place on the in-game map.

Toggles radiation flooding monuments to push players out before their puzzles reset.

Toggles radiation at monuments.

Passes a world generation config string straight to the procedural map generator.

Lists every monument on the map with its type, name and world position.

Renders a high resolution PNG image of the current map.

Sets the daily upkeep cost fraction for blocks in the first, smallest upkeep bracket.

Sets how many hours an unprotected sheet metal building block takes to decay fully.

Sets one decay duration in hours for everything, overriding the per-grade values when above 0.

Sets how many hours an unprotected stone building block takes to decay fully.

Sets how many hours an unprotected armored (high quality metal) building block takes to decay fully.

Sets how many hours an unprotected twig building block takes to decay fully.

Sets how many hours an unprotected wood building block takes to decay fully.

Runs a decay tick on every entity on the server right away.

Sets how often, in seconds, the decay system runs; the default is 600 (10 minutes).

Toggles upkeep, where resources in the tool cupboard protect a base from decay.

Sets how long, in minutes, a base stays protected after its tool cupboard is destroyed.

Sets how fast protected objects heal back up; 1 heals at the rate they would decay.

Sets how fast objects decay when they are inside a building; default 0.1.

Sets how many minutes of protection one upkeep payment covers; default 1440 (24 hours).

Sets how many minutes a hot air balloon left outside takes to lose all its health.

Sets how many seconds a player is locked out of a code lock after too many wrong codes.

Sets how many wrong codes a player can enter on a code lock before being locked out.

Toggles whether players can upgrade building blocks to armored (high quality metal).

Scales the resource cost of upgrading building blocks to sheet metal.

Toggles whether players can upgrade building blocks to sheet metal.

Scales the resource cost of upgrading building blocks to stone.

Toggles whether players can upgrade building blocks to stone.

Toggles whether players can upgrade building blocks to wood.

Sets how many auto turrets can work near each other before they interfere and shut down.

Toggles whether auto turrets shoot everyone, including players authorized on them.

Toggles building stability; with it off, structures never collapse from lack of support.

Recalculates stability for every building block in the world.

Repairs every item in your inventory to full condition.

Removes every dropped item lying on the ground across the server.

Fills the container you are looking at with random items, optionally from one category.

Clears a player's inventory, optionally only the belt, clothing or backpack.

Gives a saved loadout to a player.

Gives you an item by its short name, with optional amount, condition and skin.

Gives an item to every connected player.

Gives you a blueprint item for the named item.

Gives you an item by its numeric item ID instead of its short name.

Gives an item to another player by item short name and amount.

Lists all loadouts saved on the server.

Saves your current inventory as a named loadout on the server.

Sets how much scrap it costs to research blueprints at a research table.

Toggles food spoiling, where food goes bad over time unless kept cold.

Sets how many seconds dropped items stay on the ground before despawning.

Sets an extra scrap tax, in percent, on tech tree unlocks at a level 1 workbench.

Toggles whether NPCs and animals ignore players completely.

Kills every animal on the server.

Kills every scientist and other human NPC on the server.

Toggles NPC spawning; with it off, scientists and other NPCs do not spawn.

Scales the health of all NPCs: 1 is normal, 2 doubles it.

Toggles AI decision making; with it off, all NPCs and animals freeze in place.

Toggles putting NPCs far from players to sleep to save server CPU.

Sets how many bears spawn per square kilometer of map.

Sets how many boars spawn per square kilometer of map.

Sets how many minicopters spawn in the world; 0 means none.

Sets how many modular cars spawn around the map.

Sets how many wild ridable horses spawn per square kilometer.

Sets how many scrap transport helicopters spawn in the world; 0 means none.

Fills every spawn group, such as monument loot and NPC groups, to its maximum.

Fills every population spawner to its target density right now.

Sets the upper population density scalar for resources, animals and loot spawns.

Sets the lower population density scalar used when few players are online.

Sets the player count the spawn system treats as the baseline when scaling spawn rates.

Sets how strongly spawn group rates grow with the number of players online.

Respawns the loot in every loot container on the server.

Sets how often, in seconds, population spawners refill resources and animals.

Sets how many wolves spawn per square kilometer of map.

Toggles the Bradley APC at Launch Site.

Sets how many minutes after its destruction the Bradley APC respawns.

Sets how many minutes a cargo ship event lasts.

Toggles the automatic cargo ship event.

Lists all server events with their enabled state, delays and last trigger time.

Enables or disables one named server event.

Sets the maximum time in seconds between automatic runs of a named event.

Sets the minimum time in seconds between automatic runs of a named event.

Sets how many seconds a locked crate takes to unlock once hacking starts.

Toggles the Halloween event, with themed loot, NPCs and mechanics.

Scales the damage of the patrol helicopter's guns: 1 is normal, 2 doubles it.

Calls in a patrol helicopter, optionally sent to a specific player.

Spawns a patrol helicopter right at your position.

Sets how many minutes the patrol helicopter stays out before leaving.

Sets the health fraction at which the patrol helicopter breaks off and flees.

Toggles automatic world events such as the patrol helicopter, airdrops and cargo ship.

Starts a cargo ship event right away.

Starts a Chinook (CH47) event aimed at your position.

Calls in a supply drop by plane.

Drops a supply crate on your position.

Toggles whether the Travelling Vendor can spawn on the ring road.

Toggles the Christmas event, with themed loot, trees and gift spawns.

Moves the in-game time forward by the given number of hours.

Sets the current in-game day of the month.

Sets how many real minutes daytime lasts on the server.

Toggles whether the time of day moves forward; with it off, time stays frozen.

Sets the in-game time of day as a decimal hour from 0 to 24.

Overrides the fog amount from 0 to 1; -1 hands control back to dynamic weather.

Sets the chance, from 0 to 1, that the dynamic weather picks fog.

Loads a named weather preset and applies it for all players.

Overrides the rain amount from 0 to 1; -1 hands control back to dynamic weather.

Sets the chance, from 0 to 1, that the dynamic weather picks rain.

Sets how many in-game hours after a wipe rain and storms are held back; 0 turns it off.

Prints the current weather state, including fog, rain, wind and cloud values.

Clears all weather overrides and returns to dynamic weather.

Sets the chance, from 0 to 1, that the dynamic weather picks storms.

Overrides the wind amount from 0 to 1; -1 hands control back to dynamic weather.

Sets the list of radio stations boomboxes can play on this server, as NAME,URL pairs.

Toggles text chat for the whole server.

Toggles global chat, where messages reach every player on the server.

Toggles local chat, where messages only reach players nearby.

Sets how far, in meters, local chat messages travel.

Sends a message to global chat as the player who types it.

Toggles writing all chat messages to the server log.

Prints the most recent chat messages to the console.

Sends a message to your team chat.

Sends a chat message to all players from the server console or RCON.

Turns voice range boost on or off for a player, so they can be heard further away.

Sets the port for the Rust+ companion app; the default in this build is 28082.

Sets the public IP address the Rust+ companion app should use to reach the server.

Caps the server's frame rate.

Toggles object pooling, which reuses objects instead of creating new ones.

Sets the IP address the RCON server listens on.

Sets the port the server listens on for RCON connections.

Toggles printing commands received over RCON in the server console.

Switches RCON between websocket (WebRCON) and the deprecated Source-style protocol.

Sets network encryption: 2 is on (recommended), 0 is off.

Prints the server's current frame rate.

Sets how many players can be connected from the same IP address at once.

Sets how many seconds without network traffic before a player is disconnected.

Searches all console commands and variables for the given text.

Deletes all entities with a given prefab short name, optionally within a radius of you.

Deletes entities by their network ID; several IDs can be given at once.

Lists all networked entities whose prefab name contains the given text.

Lists all networked entities within a radius of you.

Spawns an entity by prefab name, by default where you are looking.

Runs an admin action, such as kill, lock or unlock, on an entity by network ID.

Prints your current world position as X, Y, Z coordinates.