Surge Documentation

01What Surge is

Surge is a server management tool for Rust Console. A bot stays connected to your server, and the website gives you a dashboard to control it. You turn things on, set them up the way you like, and the bot keeps them running in the background.

There are two sides to it. The admin dashboard is where you and your admins run the server. The player dashboard is what your community sees: kits, the store, games, the live map, events, the leaderboard, raid alarms, boost rewards, TikTok prizes, Player Insights and more.

02Getting set up

If you are brand new, this is the order most people go in. Each step has its own page in this guide.

1. 1Sign in with Discord.
2. 2Link your exact in-game name. You only do this once.
3. 3Connect your Rust server with the console details from your host. This unlocks the admin dashboard.
4. 4Optional: link your Discord server and pick an admin role so your staff can help out.
5. 5Open your server and start switching features on.

03Finding your way around

The Servers page lists every server you can manage, with live player counts, map, FPS, uptime and connection status. Click a server to open its dashboard.

Inside a server, the menu is split into five groups. Each group has its own colour, and every page inside it uses that colour too, so you always know where you are:

• Management (blue): the day to day stuff. Shortcuts, Player List, Role Lists, Server Information, Nuke Building, Dynamic Map, Discord Integration, Management Team, Admin Feed and TikTok Integration.
• Server Settings (purple): how the game itself plays. Building & Team, Modifiers and Multipliers (Loot-Farm-Gather, Cook and Smelt and Recyclers), Players and Gameplay, Item Restrictions, Blueprints, Custom Commands, Console, Wipe Configuration and My Settings.
• Features (green): the systems that make your server yours. Zorp, SRP, AutoKits, Economy, Challenges, Raid Alarm, Custom Zones, Custom Teleports, Home Teleports, Dynamic Text, Entity Spawning, Killfeed, Scheduled Messages, Leaderboard, Book A Ride, Skip Night, Information and Monitors.
• Events (pink): things that happen on a timer. Default Events, Custom Events, Pvp Event, Docked Cargo and Wicked Oil.
• Store (orange): your own web store where players pay real money for items, kits and vehicles. Store Setup, Store Design, Payments, Products and Orders.

Every page opens with a header that shows its group and icon, like Server Settings / Custom Commands. On a phone the same groups are shown as one list you can tap through.

Search. Tap the magnifying glass next to Admin dashboard (top right on a phone), or press Ctrl K (⌘ K on a Mac) anywhere, and start typing. It finds groups, systems and the tabs inside them, like Server Population or Cook and Smelt. It also understands what things do, so typing gather rate, welcome or player count works too, and it fixes typos for you. Press Tab to finish the suggestion, use the arrow keys to move, and Enter takes you straight there.

Next to every system you will also see a small plan icon: a gold crown means Premium only, the gold and cyan icon means it works on Free with more on Premium, and the cyan padlock means it is fully free. Free vs Premium explains them in full.

04Switching between admin and player view

Once you have admin access, the menu button in the top bar lets you jump between Servers, Get Premium, the Admin dashboard and the Player dashboard. It is handy for checking what your players actually see. While you are on the admin side, the same menu also has Documentation, which opens this guide (the Surge Index). You can open it from the Servers page too.

Your profile menu (click your avatar) shows your Discord name, your linked in-game name and your plan.

05About Surge Index

Surge Index is this help guide. Every part of the dashboard has its own page here explaining what it does, how to set it up and the things worth knowing before you switch it on.

Prefer watching? Open Surge Academy from the button at the top of this menu. It is a set of short videos for setting Surge up, grouped by topic. The written pages stay here for everything that is easier to look up.