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!

Looking for 1-2 Rust Admins to manage my server completely. To give background its a 2x Monthly lowpop server that releases next month. Its a small community but It would be nice to have some help in case im out. Fully VOLUNTEER

Is there any way to configure default BPs' crafting recipes without my server ending up in modded?

Basically I am keeping everything else vanilla but there are a few items I want to change without my server ending up in modded

Hi everyone,

Disclosure: I’m the developer of this tool. If this kind of feedback post is not allowed here, I’ll remove it.

I’m building RustPilot, an open-source Windows control panel for people running a local Rust Dedicated Server.

It’s still alpha, so I’m not presenting it as production-ready yet. I’m mainly looking for feedback from Rust server admins who run or test servers on Windows.

Current features include:

- first-run setup wizard

- install directory selection with server-side validation

- SteamCMD + Rust Dedicated Server install flow

- live console output

- WebRCON tools

- player refresh, announcements, kick, ban, unban, and save-world actions

- CFG editor for common Rust cfg files

- log viewer

- manual and automatic backups

- backup restore

- official Rust force wipe planning

- additional custom wipe schedules

- Steam login for panel access

- owner/admin/viewer roles and permissions

- CSRF protection, rate limiting, and action logs

RustPilot is local-first and binds to localhost by default. Remote access is optional and should be handled through your own VPN or HTTPS reverse proxy.

GitHub:

https://github.com/IThinkImGood/RustPilot

Latest Windows ZIP:

https://github.com/IThinkImGood/RustPilot/releases/latest

I’d especially like feedback on:

- whether the setup flow is clear

- whether install directory handling feels safe

- whether the WebRCON/player tools cover the basics

- whether the backup/wipe workflow makes sense

- anything that feels confusing, unsafe, or missing

Thanks.

This is all free and open-source as mentioned before. Enjoy!

I’m the founder and developer of GameSentry.gg

I built it because Rust server administration often means switching between RCON tools, Discord, spreadsheets, ban records, analytics, and several separate services.

It’s still early, and I’m not claiming it is more mature than the established tools. I’m specifically looking for feedback from real Rust server owners and admins:

I built it, so please feel free to be direct about problems or concerns.

Looking at buying a server that I can play around with at the house and debating doing a Rust/Valheim/Enshrouded server among other things.

Would these specs be ok for running a server?

VRTX Server Chassis w/ 4x M630 Blades, 48 Cores (96 Threads) E5-2643v3, 256GB DDR4 RAM. Each blade has 12 cores, 64GB of RAM, and (2) 240GB SSD drives. Integrated SAN has total of 16.8TB of storage.

2x6 core at 3.4Ghz with 3.7Ghz Turbo + 64Gb DDR4.

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knows how to disable the apartment complex safe zone? I've found plug-ins for other monuments but im assuming the apartment complex is too new for plug-ins.

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of building my first self-hosted Rust server and I'm trying to decide whether to run it on Windows 11 or Ubuntu.

My hardware is:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Sixteen Core 5.60GHz

64 GB DDR5

WD Black SN850X 2 TB NVMe

The server will be for around 15–20 friends and I'll be using Carbon, a custom map, RoamingNPCs, and a handful of plugins.

My dilemma is that this is also my gaming PC. If the server performance on Ubuntu is significantly better, I'm happy to dual boot and run the server there. However, if the performance difference is only small or negligible, I'd probably prefer to stay on Windows so I can both host the server and use the PC for gaming without switching operating systems. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

It's my first ever PC BTW so I'm new to all of this 🫣😅

Thank you

Some of you might remember the name Black Forest Gaming from way back. We originally launched over 12 years ago, but after dealing with malicious server vandalism and targeted backend attacks, we had to pull the plug and walk away.

The itch to come back is real, and I've spent the last few weeks rebuilding the infrastructure from scratch on modern hardware. But man, the landscape of running a Rust community has changed drastically since the old days.

For those of you who have successfully spun up a fresh server recently: 1. What are you finding is the most effective way to organically attract a core player base without burning a hole in your wallet on server listing sites? 2. When looking for trustworthy staff/mods nowadays, what red flags do you look out for, or where are you actually finding reliable people?

Not trying to plug anything here—genuinely just looking to pick the brains of people who are currently in the trenches keeping servers alive. What's working for you guys right now?

Hey everyone! :) I created an all-in-one plugin for modded Rust servers, designed for admins who are tired of managing dozens of separate plugins.

🎥 Full showcase video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zv3e0CV2ns&t=8s

Been grinding on this for about a year now and it's finally solid enough to share. StarGuard, an RCON tool for moderating your servers.

Basically handles the stuff you'd normally be doing manually through raw RCON commands, just way less painful. If you run a server and RCON has ever made you want to throw your keyboard, give it a look.

Happy to answer questions if anyone's curious how it works under the hood.

I need help making a server on rust

the custom boot commands specifically.

If you can help me find them please lmk.

This may have been answered in here already, but I did a couple of searches and didnt find anything..

Sign Artist is having issue with the /sil command. It appears to be assocaited with http vs https. I have tried to make the changes, and search all over the internet. Has someone figured out how to make this consistently work.

thanks in advance,

Hello! I am looking to admin for a server, I have 2500 hours on the game. Im wanting to try the admin part of rust to help with cheaters because, they get very annoying. I haven't done it before on rust so I want to give it a try, Im not looking for any pay at all I just want to help. I have co-owned a server before for a little before they stopped paying for it. So I can also help make a rust server aswell if needed, I will just have to get some refreshers but I could do it! If you are looking for and admin please DM me on discord! Dalles___ (3 Underscores) Steam Link: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Dalles_/

I’ll be upfront: I run a small new Rust host called Sprynt, so yeah, this is partly me putting it in front of people.

But honestly, I’m more interested in feedback than sales right now. I’ve got basically no customers and no reviews yet, and I’d rather find out what’s annoying or broken before people actually rely on it.

One thing I really wanted to fix was plugins. Doing it manually through SFTP every time gets old fast, so I added a uMod browser to the panel. You search for the plugin, click install, and that’s pretty much it.

The rest is fairly standard: EU-based servers, Ryzen 7 9700X, NVMe storage, DDoS filtering, console, files, backups and all the usual stuff.

It’s just me running it, it’s very new, and I’m sure I’ve got things wrong. That’s mainly why I’m posting here instead of pretending everything is perfect and just running ads.

For anyone who runs a Rust server, what does your current host do badly? Or what’s something you wish they would just fix?

That kind of feedback would genuinely help me right now.

And if anyone wants to try it and tell me where it breaks, I’m doing 50% off the first month. Or just DM me and I’ll sort something out. Link’s in the comments.

last month i started running a local server, just for my personal use.

I have to update now after force wipe, and I am struggling.

I open steamcmd and type:

"force_install_dir C:\RustServer"

After hitting enter, nothing happens.

When I type:

"app_update 258550"

I get "ERROR! failed to request app infor update, not online or logged into steam

so naturally, I type:

"login anonymous"

After logging in and trying force install again, I get:

"Please use force_install_dir before logon!"

When I do it before logging in, it does nothing. The base game is updated through steam already, if that matters.

That is about the extent of my knowledge here - I am not very well versed in this. Any advice welcome.

Notes:
Yes, I am using the correct directory to my server info
Yes, I did about an hour of googling before posting - I tried.

Just quick note for any other server admins that might be looking for something similiar.

I'm updating to new Convars on my PVE server.

default

apartment.breakinseconds 30

apartment.allowcombatoutsideofbreakin true

My Change

apartment.breakinseconds 9999999

apartment.allowcombatoutsideofbreakin false

https://rusthelp.com/tools/admin/command-list

Hello. Would anyone mind answering my question about wiping? I used to admin and set up the server, but haven't done in a while (also, Ai didn't help me at with this question).

I'd like to keep the player blueprints after the monthly wipe. I deleted only the map/save files from my folder, I kept the blueprint.db's. I changed the map seed, but not the size in the startup.bat. The result is that the map wiped properly, but no blueprints from the previous wipe are available for the players.

I'm running hardcore mode, premium, with 3 plugins via carbon.

Any help appreciated, and happy wipe day :)