Linking your in-game name

01How it works

You can sign in and browse without linking. The first time you open a server, connect a server, or start a Premium purchase, Surge asks for your in-game name. This applies to admins and players alike.

1. 1Sign in with Discord.
2. 2On the Link your in-game name page, type your Rust Console name exactly as it appears in game.
3. 3Press Link account.
4. 4You land on your dashboard, linked.

You only do this once. The same link works on every Surge server, now and in the future. Your points and rewards still stay on each server separately and never carry over.

Names with spaces are fine. Type the whole name, including the numbers at the end. Rust can also hide a word in a name (for example DIE may show as stars in chat or on the player list). Link the name as you see it on your profile, and Surge still matches you in game.

02Why it matters

Surge uses your linked name to know which player in game is you. Without it, a lot of things simply cannot work:

• The player dashboard. Players cannot open it at all until they have linked.
• Use my Location buttons. In Custom Events, Pvp Event and Docked Cargo, these read where your linked character is standing. You need to be linked and online on that server.
• Management Team. The owner can only find and add people who have linked their name. Anyone who has not linked yet will not show up in the search.
• Joining PVP events from the website. The Join Event button uses your linked name to pull you into the arena.

03Getting players linked

The easiest way is your server's player link. Copy it from the server card on the Servers page and post it in your Discord. Players open it, sign in, link their name, and your server is added to their favourites. They can also search from the player dashboard once they type two letters of the name.

04Getting it right

Linked the wrong name? Ask a server admin to unlink it (Player List, Unlink User). You will be asked to link your correct name next time you open Surge, and your balance, spins, prizes, challenges and raid alarms all carry over to it. Each name can only be linked to one Discord account, so unlinking is also how a name someone else took by mistake is freed up.