The instant craft command and variable for quick crafting
The RUST instant craft command and variable are used to remove the required waiting period for all craft-able items. This is a server variable that is scoped only to admin and moderator players connected to the server. When this setting is enabled, admin and moderator players that begin to craft new items will notice the custom crafting times are no longer present. Crafted items will immediately move into their inventories, assuming they’re not full.
This setting can have a dramatic impact on the time spent by players on your server. It allows players to spend more of their session time on the other areas of RUST, such as farming, building, and PVP.
A few practical reasons for using the RUST instant craft command and variable:
- Advertise a unique aspect/setting of your RUST server known as “Instacraft”
- Permanently or temporarily remove the waiting time of crafting queues
- Increase player focus on other areas of RUST, such as building, farming, hunting, and PVP
Who can use the RUST instant craft command and variable
The RUST instant craft command can be issued on vanilla RUST servers by RUST admins and moderators only. Non-admin players on vanilla RUST servers cannot use the instant craft command. There are plugins available for modded servers, such as Crafting Controller, that allow for finer grain control over the crafting times and can be scoped to all players, not just admins and moderators.
How to use the RUST instant craft command and variable
Before initiating the RUST instant craft command:
- This setting can be issued as a command and take effect instantly. If you intend to set it permanently, be sure to add it to your startup configurations or server.cfg file
- Ensure admins and moderators understand the setting is active
- Consider updating your server’s “hostname” and “description” to include “Instacraft.”
- Players with crafting queues will be impacted by this setting as it does not require a server restart
The RUST instant craft command is issuable from the in-game console and RCON platforms. Press the F1 key to open the in-game console and type in the specific syntax listed below, then press the enter button.
RUST craft.instant command & variable (1 of 1)
- This variable is used to remove all crafting times, for admin and moderators only, making their crafting times instantaneous. All regular players will be on the standard crafting times.
- This setting defaults to false on Vanilla servers.
- This configuration must be set up in the server start-up script for the setting to persist through updates and server restarts.
Note that this RUST admin command does work from RCON platforms and doesn’t require being logged into the game server.
Get the server’s current configuration value
Use the command below to report the current configuration:
craft.instant
On success the console will display:
craft.instant: "False"
Enable instant craft on the server
Use the command below to enable instant craft:
craft.instant “True”
On success the console will display:
craft.instant: "True"
Disable instant craft on the server
Use the command below to disable instant craft:
craft.instant “False”
On success the console will display:
craft.instant: "False"
