The RUST Horse Population Command and Variable
The RUST horse population command and variable allows server admins the ability to specify how many horses will spawn across the server. Setting the variable to a higher value will increase the number of horses that automatically spawn, while a lower value will decrease them. The variable’s setting is specific to each square kilometer (km) across the map. In addition to this command, the Ridable Horse Population Command was introduced in the June 6th, 2019 update. This command and variable have effectively replaced this command.
A few practical reasons for using the RUST horse population command and variable:
- Increasing the number of horses that spawn across the map
- Decreasing the number of horses that spawn across the map
- Stopping horses from spawning completely
- 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
Who can enter the RUST horse population command and variable
The RUST horse 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 horse population command and variable.
RUST horse population command and variable
- Use this command to get or set the current number of horses that spawn automatically in the RUST game world.
- This variable defaults to
0on 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 command does work from RCON platforms and doesn’t require being logged into the game server.
Getting the current horse population value
horse.population
On success the console will display:
horse.population: "0"
Setting the horse population value
horse.population “4”
On success the console will display:
horse.population "4"
Stop the horse population from spawning
horse.population “0”
On success the console will display:
horse.population "0"
