The RUST Boar Population Command and Variable
The RUST boar population command and variable allows server admins the ability to specify how many boars will spawn across the server. Setting the variable to a higher value will increase the number of boars that automatically spawn, while a lower value will decrease them. The variable’s setting is specific to each square kilometer (km) across the map.
A few practical reasons for using the RUST boar population command and variable:
- Increasing the number of boars that spawn across the map
- Decreasing the number of boars that spawn across the map
- Stopping boars from spawning completely
- Greatly increasing the difficulty of surviving on the island of RUST
- Reducing the chances of starvation for players across the island of RUST
- Reduce the strain and increase the server’s performance
- Controlling the server’s overall entity counts
- Use the boar population command to set up a boar hunting season
- Create a special server event for “boar mating season”, run on timed scripts
Who can enter the RUST boar population command and variable
The RUST boar 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 boar population command and variable.
RUST boar population command and variable
- Use this command to get or set the current number of boars that spawn automatically in the RUST game world.
- This variable defaults to
5on vanilla-based servers. - After issuing this command, it will immediately change the game world’s setting, without the server restarting.
- 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 boar population value
boar.population
On success the console will display:
boar.population: "5"
Setting the boar population value
boar.population “4”
On success the console will display:
boar.population "4"
Stop the boar population from spawning
boar.population “0”
On success the console will display:
boar.population "0"
