Steps to enable hardcore mode on your server
Via server.cfg
- Navigate to your server on the control panel
- Click on [Configuration Files] on the left hand side
- Open server.cfg
- Modify or add a new line: gamemode.set hardcore
- Hit Save & Exit and restart your server
Via Commandline Manager
- Navigate to your server on the control panel
- Click on [Commandline Manager] on the left hand side
- Click 'Select' or 'Selected' on your chosen Commandline and in the Additional Parameters enter: +server.gamemode hardcore
- Restart your server
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RUST Hardcore game mode changes:
- Disabled Rust+ Companion App and forcing complete anonymity and map information restriction on third-party player resources (encrypted maps)
- Removed the crawling feature from the Wounded system, reverting to players downed becoming completely prone and vulnerable
- Removed the Contact system entirely
- Removed the Team system entirely
- Removed the MLRS system entirely
- Removed the Mission system and removed NPCs
- Removed Drone Marketplaces from Outpost and Bandit Camp monuments
- Adds a limit of 5 sleeping bags or beds per character, per server – players may still give bags to others, but 1 bag slot will always be reserved to be placed by a player
- Removed navigational features such as the in-game map and compass
- Removed safe zone status — enter at your own risk.
- Removed safe zone hostility and the indicator icon located in the top right window corner
- Death screens transparency altered
- Redacted seed information from the F1 Info panel
- Disabled console commands: printpos, printrot, printhead, printeyes & printinput
- The Hardcore server tag has been made searchable in the server browser.
- Global chat was replaced with Local chat, visible to players within a 100-meter limit.
- Player blueprints are force wiped every first Thursday of the month.
- The scrap cost to unlock blueprints in the Tech Tree is increased.