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How to change hot air balloon decay in Rust

Type hotairballoon.outsidedecayminutes 360 in the server console so a hot air balloon left outside takes 6 hours to decay. Default is 180 minutes.

hotairballoon.outsidedecayminutes

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

hotairballoon.outsidedecayminutes <minutes>

Examples

hotairballoon.outsidedecayminutes 360

Balloons last 6 hours outside.

Arguments

minutesRequired
Time to decay fully while outside.

What it does

Balloons decay when stored outdoors. Raise it if players complain that parked balloons vanish too fast.

The game's own description: How long before a HAB loses all its health while outside

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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