Not all games have an easy-to-use server browser or a join by IP feature ingame. This can make it difficult to immediately find your server ingame. Thankfully Steam provides a feature with it's desktop client to allow you to monitor and join your server. First make sure your server is Online. If it is marked as Offline or Started it will not be discover-able....
Firstly, you will need to install an RCON program on your PC. We recommend RustAdmin for ease of use. Enable the Web RCON setting, and enter an RCON password via your Game Settings -> Advanced within NodePanel. Rust RCON settings Save and restart your server. Configure Rust Admin to access your server's RCON: Click the Configuration tab Select the WebRcon option under RCON...
What is a "Steam ID"? Just about everything that is on Steam's game launcher has a unique ID number associated with it, like the license plates on cars. Every game, every mod in the workshop, every community group, and every player account. Many games can use those Steam ID numbers for player accounts to quickly and easily identify players on your server. Those...
This article will show you how to install and setup a whitelist Umod/Oxide plugin if you want to have a private Rust server. Install Umod/Oxide, if you have not already You will of course, need to install the Umod/Oxide plugin framework on your Rust server. Here at Nodecraft, we have added that as a choice in our One-Click installer for you. After...
What is an "RCON" tool? Rust has no console by default, so there's no normal way to issue commands to the server from inside the game, or from the Nodecraft control panel. To issue commands to the server, you will need to use what is called an "RCON" tool, which stands for "remote console". Without the RCON tool, the server is...
Many of the special features added by plugins in the game Rust will not automatically work for players or groups, unless special "permissions" are given to use them. You do this by connecting to the server with an RCON tool, and giving special commands to the server, which are used by an entire permissions system that is built into the uMod/Oxide plugin framework. When...
