Windows desktop · Linux VPS or this PC

Run the box from the same desk you raid from.

RustWarden is the control room for people who actually host — first wipe or the fifth. Point it at a Linux VPS or a folder on this PC. It puts SteamCMD, Rust Dedicated, Carbon, and the Warden suite on the machine, then you run players, console, kits, and sixteen mods from one window. The website is only download and billing.

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Current version v1.2.65 · Windows 10/11 · Free to start

Empty VPS → first joinSSH wizard installs deps, SteamCMD, Rust, Carbon, and systemd.
Already runningAttach RCON + SSH. Kick, ban, wipe, and sync mods without a browser panel.
This Windows PCCreate a local dedicated folder and run it from the same app.
Free → Pro when pop paysChat, Kits, Stats, Zones on one box. $19 unlocks the rest.

The desktop — not a browser panel

These are the real screens. Click a window to open it large. Every shot is the app a host actually uses on wipe night.

Live control

All plans

See the wipe without SSHing in.

The dashboard is what you leave up on a second monitor. Pop, peak, economy flow, Carbon health, and a broadcast bar for “wipe in ten.” Disable a mod here and it is removed from Carbon — not left sitting in a plugins folder.

  • Broadcast — say it to everyone without opening the console.
  • Save / console / wipe — the three buttons you actually hit on Thursday.
  • Mod dots — green means the plugin answered. Grey means it is off or the process is down.

Who is on the box

All plans

A player list that remembers last wipe.

Search the people who have joined, not a 40-line F1 dump. Playtime, K/D, notes for the duo you already warned, and a timeline of joins, chat, and deaths. Staff who should not have the owner key get scoped tokens.

  • Kick / mute / ban — from the row. Ban reason is written to the audit log.
  • Notes — “cheater alt” stays on the Steam ID after they change name.
  • Events + bans tabs — the same window, not three Oxide commands.

RCON

All plans

The console you meant to keep open.

Typed commands, coloured joins and deaths, and a search box when cargo chat explodes. Autocomplete for the commands you always mistype at 02:00. This is the dedicated process talking — not a web wrapper buffering it.

  • Filters — hide chat when you only care about errors.
  • Palette — jump commands without scrolling a wiki.
  • Clear — wipe the buffer without losing the connection.

WardenKits

FreeGameplay · Modded tab

Loadouts without editing a config on the box.

Players claim in-game. You build the kit here: belt, wear, main, cooldown, max claims, auto-give on spawn. Pair it with Gate for VIP and Economy if a kit should cost SC. Wipe day resets claims from one button.

  • Types — starter, cooldown, daily, VIP.
  • Give — admin grant from the app, preferred over inventory.giveto.
  • Enable switch — in the title. Off removes the plugin from Carbon.

WardenEconomy

ProGameplay · Modded tab

A shop the host can change mid-wipe.

Players earn SC by playing. You set prices, stock, and whether they can sell back. Paid kits, clan banks, and chat ranks that require a balance all read the same wallet. The ledger is there for the ticket after wipe night.

  • Shop / wallets / transactions / config — four tabs, one plugin.
  • Transfers — optional player-to-player with a minimum.
  • Push — live to Carbon. No dedicated restart.

WardenClans

ProGameplay · Modded tab

Official clans, without a second plugin war.

Players create clans in-game (J / Clan Table). You see the roster, the tag colour, and the bank. Officers withdraw when Economy is loaded. Friendly-fire warnings before someone dumps a teammate. This is Facepunch official clans — not a custom UI that forces the Modded tab by itself.

  • Bank — set or add from the card.
  • Sync official — pull what the dedicated process knows.
  • Config — max members, bank, ally chat.

WardenChat

FreeAdmin · Community-safer

Ranks and mutes without a chat plugin pile-up.

Prefix and colour by permission, playtime, or Economy balance. Filter repeats into a mute. Timed or permanent mutes show on the player row. Community-safer — it changes how people talk, not gather rates.

  • Ranks / filter / mutes / log / config
  • Announce mutes — or keep them quiet.
  • Priority — Owner beats VIP beats Whale.

WardenStats

FreeAdmin · Community-safer

A board that survives a crashed dedicated.

Kills, deaths, KDR, headshots, streaks, playtime, and farm by wood / stone / metal / sulfur / HQM. Optional streak chat. Reset one player or the wipe. No gather-rate changes — Facepunch-safer than a “2x stats” plugin.

  • Cross-wipe — keep lifetime numbers if you want.
  • Sync — pull from Carbon when RCON is up.
  • Profile — click a row, see the person.

Carbon, not Oxide

All plans

The catalogue is uMod. The suite is ours.

Install Copy Paste or Stack Size from uMod. Upload your own .cs. Reload without bouncing the dedicated. WardenCore and the sixteen Warden plugins do not show up as deletable junk in that list — they live behind the dashboard toggles.

  • Check updates — see what uMod has moved.
  • Config — open the plugin config from the row.
  • No Oxide — Carbon only, on purpose.

Evidence

All plans

When two admins disagree, the trail is here.

Filter joins and deaths while the pop is high. Open the raw server log when Carbon printed something ugly. The audit tab is for staff actions — kick, ban, mod toggle — so a Studio box with three operators does not turn into a blame chat.

  • Export — JSON or CSV when you need it off-box.
  • Player column — jump back to the profile.
  • Types — join, leave, death, chat, admin, save.

WardenZones

FreeGameplay · Modded tab

Combat rules on the map, not in server.cfg.

Draw an ellipse, set PvP, PvE, or Safe, rotate it, push. Outpost stays a sanctuary. Launch stays a fight. Everything else is your global default. Facepunch server.pve stays off.

  • Types — PvP free-for-all, PvE blocks player damage, Safe blocks all.
  • Live — add or move a zone without bouncing the dedicated.
  • Free — one of the four starter mods.

WardenEvents

ProGameplay · Modded tab

Heli when the pop is right — not when the file says so.

Thursday 19:00 UTC, or right now from the trigger tab. Carbon answers success or fail. You choose the event. The app does not surprise the lab.

  • Schedule — day and clock, or every day.
  • Trigger — fire one when 40 people are on.
  • Log — who pressed it, and whether it landed.

WardenGate

ProGameplay · Modded tab

VIP that expires without you grepping Oxide.

Create the group, drop a Steam ID on it, set 30 days. Kits, chat ranks, and spawn zones read the same name. Trial VIP falls off on its own.

  • Groups / players / config
  • Timed or permanent
  • Push all when Carbon missed a grant.

WardenSnapshot

ProAdmin · Community-safer

The button you want at 17:55 UTC.

Full wipe, map only, BPs, or a custom mix. Snapshot the identity folder first. Roll back a bad seed from the same window. Players never see the plugin.

  • Schedule sits on the dashboard clock.
  • Snapshots — pre-wipe and “that seed was trash.”
  • Restore wallets, BPs, stats, clans, kits — pick which.

Host disk

All plans

cfg without opening WinSCP.

Shortcuts into configs, plugins, data, and server identity. Upload a .cs. Open a json. WardenCore and the sixteen suite files do not show up here — those live behind the dashboard toggles.

  • Linux SSH or this PC
  • RCON-only attaches cannot browse disk — on purpose.
  • Hidden suite so an operator does not delete Core.

Loot, spawn, map pins, progression, guard, broadcasts, entity caps, and the staff audit trail.

Host ops — the work around the wipe

The screens above are day-to-day. This is how the box gets there, stays updated, and comes back after a bad seed.

Deploy

SSH wizard

Point Warden at a Linux VPS. It installs packages, SteamCMD, Rust Dedicated, Carbon, WardenCore, the plugins you left on, start.sh, server.cfg, UFW, and a systemd unit.

  • Fresh box or resume a Warden install
  • Game, query, and Rust+ ports opened
  • Redeploy updates the stack without wiping the world

This PC

Local Windows dedicated

Create a folder on this machine and run Rust Dedicated from the same app. Useful for a smoke box, a test wipe, or hosting without a VPS.

  • No remote Windows deploy — on purpose
  • Same RCON, players, and mods as a VPS
  • Hyper-V and bare metal both fine

Already up

Attach the box you have

Add host, RCON, and SSH. Warden talks to the live process. You do not migrate the world to use the app.

  • Identity: hostname, tags, logo, banner
  • Official / Community / Modded with a disclaimer
  • Start, stop, restart, save from the UI

Files

The dedicated folder

Browse server, carbon, cfg, and logs over the same connection. Warden suite files stay hidden so an operator does not delete Core.

  • List, open, upload
  • cfg and identity without WinSCP
  • Works on Linux SSH and local Windows

World

Map builder + zones

Preview seed and size, biomes, roads, rivers, monument blacklist. Overlay WardenZones (PvP / PvE / Safe) before you wipe. Config writes to world.configfile.

  • Ellipses with rotation, live over RCON
  • Leave Facepunch server.pve off
  • Global combat outside the ellipses

WardenSnapshot

Wipe manager

Pick a UTC wipe window. Snapshot world + cfg, restore a bad seed, reset kit / stats / economy / clan / progression flags without SSHing in by hand.

  • Schedule on the dashboard clock
  • Players never see this plugin
  • Pro — the button you want at 17:55 UTC

Updates

Rust, Carbon, Warden

Pull the next dedicated build, Carbon, backend, and plugin suite from the app. The Windows client updates itself when a new installer is published.

  • Stack update without a re-image
  • Reload plugins only, when that is enough
  • In-app updater for 1.2.x clients

Staff

Tokens and audit

Scoped tokens for people who should not have the owner key. Viewer is GET-only. Operator can change game data. Admin cannot mint more tokens.

  • Audit log for kick, ban, toggle
  • Studio player intelligence on the account
  • Steam or a licence token to sign in

Integrations

Discord, docs, account

Docs live in the app. The account portal is billing and Steam. The website does not run your server — the desktop does.

  • Portal at /warden/portal
  • Jump palette (Ctrl+K) across every page
  • Light and dark, Inter throughout

Sixteen Carbon mods. One suite.

Free unlocks Chat, Kits, Stats, and Zones. Pro lights the rest. Toggle what actually runs on the box. Carbon only — no Oxide.

WardenChat

FreeCommunity-safer

How chat looks and who can talk. Rank prefixes, colours, a word filter, mutes, and a live log — from the app, not a config file.

  • Prefix and colour by permission, playtime, or SC balance
  • Blocked words, with a mute path for repeats
  • Timed or permanent mutes on the player row
  • Search chat history without grepping the dedicated log

WardenKits

FreeModded tab

Starter and VIP kits built in the UI. Players claim in-game. Cooldowns, wipe-day resets, optional Economy prices.

  • Items, amounts, belt / wear / main, no JSON
  • Permission group, wipe-only, or paid with Economy
  • Admin give from the app
  • Reset claims when you wipe, one button

WardenStats

FreeCommunity-safer

Kills, deaths, KDR, headshots, playtime, streaks, and farming. Synced so the board still loads when the process is down.

  • Lifetime and wipe stats on the profile
  • Combat and per-resource farm boards
  • Optional streak announcements — no gather.rate
  • Reset the board without touching the world save

WardenZones

FreeModded tab

Elliptical PvP, PvE, and Safe zones with rotation. Pushed live over RCON. Leave Facepunch server.pve off and let Zones own combat rules.

  • PvP free-for-all, PvE blocks player damage, Safe blocks all
  • Place and rotate on the map builder overlay
  • No restart when you add or move a zone
  • Global default combat outside the ellipses

WardenEconomy

ProModded tab

In-game shop and wallets. Default currency is SC. Players earn by playing; you set prices, stock, and wipe rules.

  • Buy and sell, toggle stock without a restart
  • Set, add, or wipe one wallet or everyone
  • Paid kits, clan bank, chat ranks that need a balance
  • Transaction ledger after a wipe-night dispute

WardenClans

ProModded tab

Official Facepunch clans: owner / officer / member, a private channel, tags in global, and a bank that talks to Economy.

  • Create, invite, kick, promote in-game
  • Deposit and officer withdraw when Economy is loaded
  • Clan channel plus optional tag in global
  • Friendly-fire warning before a team dump

WardenEvents

ProModded tab

Schedule or fire world events from the app: heli, cargo, Bradley, airdrop, convoy. Logged with success or fail.

  • Day-of-week or daily UTC time
  • One-shot from the UI when the pop is right
  • Who fired what, and whether Carbon accepted it
  • You choose the event — the app does not surprise the lab

WardenGate

ProModded tab

Carbon permission groups as first-class objects — VIP, MVP, staff — with optional expiry. Other Warden mods read the same groups.

  • Add a Steam ID to a group from the app
  • Timed VIP that drops itself
  • Gate a kit or chat rank on the same group name
  • Warden creates the group if it is missing

WardenGuard

ProCommunity-safer

Structure rules, raid-hour windows, and TC auth browsing. Aimed at cheaters and trolls — not a silent anti-raid all week.

  • Who can damage whose buildings
  • Time-windowed raiding, UTC
  • List and remove cupboard auths over RCON
  • Run protection, hours, both, or neither

WardenBroadcast

ProCommunity-safer

Rules and reminders on a timer or at a clock time. Facepunch allows informing players — this is the announce layer, not a hard block.

  • Every N minutes, ASCII chat only
  • Fire at a UTC time (wipe warning, restart)
  • Dashboard broadcast bar for right now
  • Disable a message without deleting it

WardenLoot

ProModded tab

Override vanilla loot by container prefab. Chance, quantity ranges, and a global multiplier. Profiles you can toggle.

  • crate_normal, elite, barrels — substring match
  • Item, chance, min/max stack
  • Optional wipe of default contents first
  • Push live to Carbon, no dedicated restart

WardenSpawn

ProModded tab

Named spawn zones with weighted points. First join, respawn, or both. Optional Gate group so VIP lands at a different beach.

  • Pick from a live player position — no typed coords
  • Weights to bias a town or keep it rare
  • First join vs death respawn
  • Gate permission can lock a zone

WardenMap

ProModded tab

Persistent F1 map markers — name, colour, radius. Re-spawned on boot. Custom UI, so Facepunch wants the Modded tab.

  • Shops, raidable, clan halls
  • Optional circle on the map
  • RCON rebuild without a restart
  • Does not hijack the death skull

WardenProgression

ProModded tab

XP from kills, headshots, gather, and playtime. Default curve to 100. Skill points spent in-game. Gather bonus lives here — vanilla has no gather.rate.

  • Combat, nodes, time in-game
  • Spend points from /skills
  • Who is actually progressing this wipe
  • Reset XP without touching kits unless you ask

WardenLimits

ProModded tab

Hard entity and building caps. Facepunch Community rules allow informing, not preventing — this is a Modded-tab feature.

  • Turrets, tools, deployables per player or team
  • Per Steam ID overrides from the app
  • Find, restore, exempt, or demolish leftover TCs
  • Live config, no restart

WardenSnapshot

ProCommunity-safer

Admin backups for wipe day. Players never see it. Snapshot the identity folder, restore, or throw it away from the app.

  • World + cfg before you pull the trigger
  • Roll back a bad wipe or a bad map seed
  • Pair with the dashboard wipe clock
  • Does not change gather, combat, or UI for players

Plans

Start free on one box with Chat, Kits, Stats, and Zones. Unlock the full suite when the pop justifies it.

Free

£0/mo

One server. The four starter mods.

  • 1 dedicated server
  • Chat, Kits, Stats, Zones
  • Desktop app + Steam login

Studio

$49/mo

Unlimited boxes. Same suite, more hosts.

  • Unlimited servers
  • Everything in Pro
  • API / white-label flags

Current release

Download RustWarden v1.2.65

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Windows 10/11 · The website does not run your server. Use the app against your own VPS or this PC.