How to change bear spawns in Rust

Type bear.population 4 in the server console to spawn 4 bears per square kilometer. bear.population 0 stops bears spawning.

bear.population

Sets how many bears spawn per square kilometer of map.

bear.population <per_km2>

Examples

bear.population 0

No bears.

bear.population 4

Twice as many bears.

Arguments

per_km2Required: Animals per square kilometer.

What it does

Higher values mean more bears roaming the map. The default in this build is 2. New counts fill in over the next population ticks; set it to 0 to stop bears from spawning.

The game's own description: Population active on the server, per square km

Good to know

Run spawn.fill_populations to apply an increase right away.

Run it on your server

Type it in the server console or send it over RCON; admins can also use the F1 console in game. To keep a setting, run server.writecfg after changing it, or put it on the launch line as +name value.

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