The RUST Bear Population Command and Variable
The RUST bear population command and variable allows the server admins the ability to specify how many bears will spawn across the server. Setting the variable to a higher value will increase the number of bears that automatically spawn. The variable’s setting is specific to each square kilometer (km) across the map.
A few practical reasons for using the RUST bear population command and variable:
- Increasing the number of bears spawning across the map
- Decreasing the number of bears spawning across the map
- Stopping bears from spawning completely
- Greatly increasing the difficulty of surviving on the island of RUST
- Reduce the strain and increasing server performance
- Controlling the server’s entity counts
- Use the bear population command to set up a bear hunting season
- Create a special server event for “bear mating season,” run on timed scripts
Who can enter the RUST bear population command and variable
The RUST bear population command and variables can be issued and configured on vanilla RUST servers by RUST admins and moderators only. Non-admin players on vanilla RUST servers cannot use the RUST bear population command and variable.
RUST bear population command and variable
- Use this command to get or set the current number of bears that spawn automatically in the RUST game world.
- This variable defaults to
2on vanilla-based servers. - After issuing this command, it will immediately change the game world’s setting, without the server needing to restart.
- Be sure to use sane values. Otherwise, it can have a drastic performance impact on the server.
Note that this RUST admin command does work from RCON platforms and doesn’t require being logged into the game server.
Getting the current bear population value
bear.population
On success the console will display:
bear.population: "2"
Setting the bear population value
bear.population “4”
On success the console will display:
bear.population "4"
Stop the bear population from spawning
bear.population “0”
On success the console will display:
bear.population "0"
