Gameplay features

Beyond telemetry, CerebRUST ships a set of optional gameplay modifications. They live under Configure → Gameplay mods in your server’s left-hand menu, one page per mod, with a dot on each tab showing whether it is on.

Everything here is off by default

Installing CerebRUST changes nothing about how your server plays. Every feature on this page starts disabled and stays that way until you deliberately enable it.

Like all settings, toggles apply live — within about 15 seconds, no reload.

Gather rates

Per-source, per-resource gather multipliers from 0.5× to 5×, in 0.5 steps, laid out as a grid: resources down the side, methods across the top.

• Pickup — items picked up off the ground (hemp, loose ore)
• Nodes — hitting rocks and trees
• Quarry & Excavator — mining quarries, and the Giant Excavator

	Pickup	Nodes	Quarry & Excavator
Wood	✅	✅	—
Stone	✅	✅	✅
Metal	✅	✅	✅
HQ Metal	✅	✅	✅
Sulfur	✅	✅	✅
Cloth	✅	—	—

A dash means Rust does not produce that resource that way — quarries and excavators yield no wood, and cloth only comes from picking hemp — so there is nothing to set.

So a 3× node rate with a 1× pickup rate is a perfectly valid combination, and often what you actually want.

Stack sizes

Raise the maximum stack size of any item in the game.

This used to be part of gather rates and shared its on/off switch. It is now its own mod, so you can run vanilla gather rates with big stacks, or multiplied gather with vanilla stacks — whichever you actually want.

Eleven items are listed by default, all at their vanilla sizes so nothing changes until you raise one:

Item	Default
Wood, Stones, Metal Ore, Metal Fragments, Sulfur Ore, Sulfur, Cloth, Scrap, Charcoal	1000
High Quality Metal, High Quality Metal Ore	100

Add whatever else you like. Search for an item by name and it is added with its vanilla stack size prefilled, ready for you to raise. If an item is too new to be in our list, type its shortname directly — it still works, and it will start showing its proper name once our list catches up.

Stack sizes revert when you turn the mod off

Turning stack sizes off restores every item to its vanilla stack. Stacks already in the world that are bigger than vanilla are left alone — you just cannot add to them until they drop below the limit.

Furnace boost

Speeds up smelting, with fuel burning proportionally faster. Multiplier is 1–4.

The one to watch after a Rust update

Furnace boost does not simply speed up the vanilla furnace — it replaces Rust’s smelting loop entirely with its own. That makes it the most fragile feature here: a Facepunch change to how ovens work can silently break it.

After every monthly Rust update, light a furnace and confirm it smelts before trusting it. Also, do not run it alongside another smelting plugin — they will fight.

Auto fuel

Evenly splits ore across furnace input slots and automatically adds fuel from the player’s inventory when they insert ore. Pure quality-of-life; no settings.

Blueprint share

When a player researches a blueprint or unlocks one from the tech tree, their teammates get it too. No settings.

Stack recycling

Recyclers process a full stack in one cycle instead of 10% per tick. No settings.

Turret auth

Keeps auto-turret authorisation in sync with the tool cupboard’s auth list, so authorising someone on the TC also authorises them on the base’s turrets.

Setting	Default	Notes
Clear grace seconds	—	5–120. Grace period before an auth clear takes effect

The grace period exists to stop a momentary de-auth from instantly turning a base’s own turrets on its owners.

SAM auth

Player-placed SAM sites ignore empty vehicles, and vehicles occupied by someone authorised on the TC. Stops your own SAMs shooting your minicopter, and stops them wasting ammo on abandoned vehicles. No settings.

Sort button

Adds a Sort button to storage containers the player owns. No settings.

Chat commands

Two are always available, with no setting:

Command	Does
/pop	Reports the current player count
/time	Reports the in-game time

Two more are off by default and enabled under Gameplay mods:

Command	Setting	Does
/takelead	takelead	Lets a team member claim leadership — useful when the leader is offline
/testgenerator	testgenerator	Lets players buy a small generator for scrap

/testgenerator has two extra settings: the scrap cost (default 20,000) and whether to broadcast the purchase server-wide (default on).

Always-on, not configurable

These run regardless, because they only fire on events that have already happened:

• Targeting alerts — when a turret or SAM on a base acquires a hostile lock, everyone authorised on that base who has linked Discord gets a DM naming the grid it happened in and whose turret or SAM fired. It deliberately does not say who was detected. One alert per base per five minutes, not one per turret.
• Raid tracking and combat logging — raid damage and PvP hits are recorded for the raid timeline.
• Monument puzzle resets — when a monument’s card puzzle re-locks, the server is told in chat and the same line goes to your public events Discord channel. See below.
• Keycard swipes — recorded for the Card Swipes leaderboard. Staff-visible only; nothing is said in chat.

None of these change gameplay; all are observation.

Monument puzzle resets

Since Rust’s Pivot Or Die update, monument card puzzles re-lock on a timer rather than staying open for the rest of the wipe. CerebRUST watches for that and announces it:

The puzzle at Water Treatment Plant has reset.

It goes to server chat and to your public events Discord channel, the same as a Bradley spawn or a Chinook drop.

It names the monument, not the card colour

The reset is detected at the monument, not per card room — a monument with both a green and a blue puzzle gives one signal, not two. Rather than guess a colour, the message names only what we can actually tell you.

The detector checks every 30 seconds, so the announcement lands within about half a minute of the reset. On a plugin reload, monuments that are already mid-reset are not announced — otherwise every reload would spam the server.