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Setting Up Your Rust Server
Rust Server Not Showing in Community/Modded List
Rust servers hosted by RAMShard are automatically added to the Community or Modded server list in Rust, depending on if your server is modded or un-modded. If your server is not appearing in this list, it is usually caused by one of multiple common reasons. If your server is not appearing in the Rust server lists, it can usually be solved with one of the following steps: Update your Rust server - If Rust is not up to date, the server will not appear. Our system will automatically update
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How to Increase Item Stack Limits
In Rust, the default item stack limit is 100. If you wish to increase this, you will have to use an Oxide plugin. This article assumes you already have Oxide installed. If you need help with installing Oxide, you can find our tutorial here. In this example, we will increase the stack limit to 10,000. To do this, you can follow these steps: Download the Stack Size Controller plugin, located here. The
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How to Manually Install Oxide on Your Rust Server
To install Oxide on your server, you can follow these steps: On the Oxide website (https://umod.org/games/rust), click download next to "Linux build" (Direct download). The file should download as Oxide.Rust-linux.zip. _Note: It is important you download the Linux version, as our servers run Linux, even though you may us
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How to Add a Custom Map to Your Rust Server
If you want to use custom maps on your Rust server, you'll need to use the RustEdit Oxide extension. Download the RustEdit Oxide extension, located here. The file you downloaded should be called Oxide.Ext.RustEdit.dll. On your control panel, navi
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Rust: How to Mute/Unmute Players
Mute and Unmute are 2 examples of commands that do not work in the in-game console. To proceed with muting and unmuting players, you must use an RCON client. If you do not know how to set up RCON, you can find our tutorial here. How to Mute a Player To mute a player, you can follow these steps: Connect to your server via RCON. From within the RCON console, type mute "player_name_or_steam_id" . Push Notifications must be enabled for th
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How to Install Oxide Plugins on Your Rust Server
This article guides you through the process of installing plugins to your Rust server. You will need to install Oxide on your server before continuing. If you need assistance doing so, you can find our guide here. If you want to install plugins on your Rust server, you can follow these steps: Find your desired plugin on the UMod Press Download on the right-hand side.
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How do I connect to my Rust server?
Getting Started Connecting to your Rust server is quite simple. Though in order to do this, you need to add the server as a favorite server on Steam. Adding A Favorite To add a favorite server, at the top of the Steam application, click View, then click into where it says Servers. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2f7c46d
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How to Change Your Server Description, Header Image and URL
To change your server description, header image and URL, you can follow these steps: Stop your server, navigate to Files > FTP File Access and log in using your control panel password. Under /server/my_server_identity/cfg, create a new file called server.cfg. If you do not have the following lines, add them: `server.url "link-to
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Rust: How to Setup RCON
There are multiple tools you can use to setup RCON with a Rust server; however, we recommend using RustAdmin. To setup RCON using RustAdmin, you can follow these steps: Download the RustAdmin Desktop Client, located here. Once RustAdmin is downloaded, extract the ZIP file and run RustAdmin.exe. Switch to the Configuration tab and set the follow
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How to Ban or Unban a Player
Banning a Player Method 1: Player Name To ban a player who is currently connected to the server, you can follow these steps: Press F1 to open the console. Type ban "player_name" "optional_reason" Ensure you replace with the Steam ID of the player you wish to unban. Note: For unbanning, do not wrap steam_id in quotes or it will not work. Unbannin
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How to Increase Gather Rates
If you wish to increase gather rates for resources in your server, you will need to use an Oxide plugin. This article assumes you have Oxide installed. If you need help with installing Oxide, you can find our tutorial here. For this example, we will change the gather rate of all resources by 10. To do this, you can follow these steps: Download the Gather Manager plugin, found here. The file should download as GatherManager.cs. 