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# Rust server

Create and configure a Rust game server on RHQ Game Hosting.

Your Rust server runs on our game panel (Pterodactyl). It installs automatically after purchase.

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### Open the panel

Log in to the game panel with the link in your service email and select your Rust server.
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### Start the server

Press **Start**. The first start downloads the game files and can take several minutes. Wait until the console shows that the server is running.
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### Set the basics

Open the **Startup** tab and set the server name, description, maximum players, world size and seed.
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### Join

In Rust press **F1** and type:

```
client.connect YOUR_SERVER_IP:28015
```

Replace the IP and port with the ones shown on the **Console** page of your server.
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## Ports

| Port    | Protocol | Use                   |
| ------- | -------- | --------------------- |
| `28015` | UDP      | Game connection       |
| `28016` | TCP      | RCON (remote console) |
| `28082` | TCP      | Rust+ companion app   |

Your assigned ports are always visible in the panel and may differ from these defaults.

## Plugins (Oxide/uMod)

Install Oxide from the **Startup** tab (or upload it through the **Files** tab), then put plugin `.cs` files into `oxide/plugins` and they load automatically.

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After a Rust forced wipe (first Thursday of each month) update the server before starting it, otherwise players cannot connect.
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