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Rust Console Commands

Console commands for the F1 menu or RCON. Source: a community-maintained export of Rust's own generated command metadata - treat this as a helpful reference, not an exhaustive one.

3,590 commands

Command	Description	Category	Type	Default	Permission
`hierarchy.cd`	(Generated) Changes the current hierarchy context to the named child GameObject, similar to the Unix cd command; allows drilling into nested scene objects	hierarchy	server		Admin
`hierarchy.del`	(Generated) Deletes the named GameObject from the scene hierarchy; use with caution as this permanently removes the object	hierarchy	server		Admin
`hierarchy.ls`	(Generated) Lists all GameObjects in the current hierarchy context, similar to the Unix ls command; used for navigating the scene hierarchy from the console	hierarchy	server		Admin
`hitnotify.headshot`		hitnotify	variable	`True`
`hitnotify.notification_level`		hitnotify	variable	`1`
`horse.population`	Population active on the server, per square km	horse	variable	`0`	Admin
`hotairballoon.minimumaltitudeterrain`		hotairballoon	variable	`25`	Admin
`hotairballoon.outsidedecayminutes`	How long before a HAB loses all its health while outside	hotairballoon	variable	`180`	Admin
`hotairballoon.population`	Population active on the server	hotairballoon	variable	`1`	Admin
`hotairballoon.serviceceiling`		hotairballoon	variable	`175`	Admin
`hurt`	Hurts your player by the inputted amount	Admin	None		Yes
`indirect_instancing.batches_per_worker`	How many batches each worker should process. This just controls how chunked the jobs are and how often the scheduler can intervene	indirect_instancing	variable	`64`
`indirect_instancing.buffer_upload_mode`	How graphics data buffers should be uploaded to the GPU: 0 = direct to render thread, 1 = indirect via graphics worker	indirect_instancing	variable	`1`
`indirect_instancing.cull_frustum`	Disable to skip frustum culling	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.cull_lod`	Disable to skip distance/LOD culling. This may cause all instances to be culled	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.cull_terrain`	Disable to skip terrain culling. (Currently disabled by default due to accuracy issues)	indirect_instancing	variable	`False`
`indirect_instancing.damage_bitscan_job`	Disable to perform scanning the damage bitmap synchronously on the main thread	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.debug`	Show on-screen debug info about the indirect instancing system	indirect_instancing	variable	`False`
`indirect_instancing.debug_motion`	Make the debug overlay highlight all moving instances with a yellow ball	indirect_instancing	variable	`False`
`indirect_instancing.debug_raycast`	Make the debug overlay include information about the object directly in front	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.enabled`	Enable/disable the indirect instancing system	indirect_instancing	variable	`False`
`indirect_instancing.fallback`	Disable to forcefully stop the fallback renderer from updating and submitting graphics commands	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.merge_damage`	Disable to skip merging/optimising damaged buffer regions before updating them on the GPU.	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.monsters`	Disable to never use multi-draw and never update monster meshes	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.motion_list`	Disable to skip updating the motion list	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.multi_draw`	Disable to never use multi-draw and never update monster meshes	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.non_monsters`	Disable to forcefully prevent per-mesh draw calls from being submitted	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.remove_null_transforms`	Enable to run an additional pass to remove null entries from the transform memory.	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.remove_queue`	Disable to skip processing the remove queue	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.render`	Disable to forcefully prevent the instancing system from submitting any graphics commands	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.reorder_commands`	Disable to prevent reordering the contents of the command args buffer	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.reorder_instances_job`	Disable to prevent reordering the contents of the instance data buffer	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.reorganise`	Disable to prevent reordering the contents of the command and instance data buffers	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_jobs`	Disable to forcefully prevent the instancing system from scheduling any jobs	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_aggregation`	How to schedule culling result aggregation jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_all`	Set scheduling behavior for all jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_frustum`	How to schedule frustum culling jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_lod`	How to schedule distance/LOD culling jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_reordering`	How to schedule reordering jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = single-threaded isolated	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_streaming`	How to schedule texture streaming jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_terrain`	How to schedule terrain culling jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = hybrid	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.schedule_mode_transforms`	How to schedule transform jobs: 0 = multi-threaded, 1 = single-threaded, 2 = single-threaded isolated	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.shadows`	Disable before joining a server to force all instanced objects to not have shadows	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.single_draw`	Disable to forcefully prevent per-mesh draw calls from being submitted	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.streaming`	Disable to completely skip calculating and applying streaming texture mip levels	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.streaming_fallback_fixed_distance`	If non-zero, this will enforce a fixed distance for all mip level calculations in the fallback renderer.	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.streaming_force_mip_level`	If != -1, this will force a fixed mip level as a result of all mip level calculations. It skips the actual calculation.	indirect_instancing	variable	`-1`
`indirect_instancing.streaming_instancing_fixed_distance`	If non-zero, this will enforce a fixed distance for all mip level calculations in the instancing renderer.	indirect_instancing	variable	`0`
`indirect_instancing.streaming_use_all_instances`	Disable to only consider culling survivors for mip level calculations	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`
`indirect_instancing.streaming_use_mesh_uv_distribution_metrics`	Disable to force all mesh UV distributions metrics to be 1	indirect_instancing	variable	`True`

This is a searchable reference of Rust console and admin commands, covering both commands available to any player and the admin/server-owner-only ones.

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