In-game admin panel
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Everything you open RCON for,
without leaving the game.
PowerfulAdmin is an admin panel that lives inside Rust. Fourteen pages in the sidebar cover players, permissions, plugins, the live console, ConVars, a working server map and your own buttons. Four more tools work out in the world, on whatever you happen to be looking at. Every page and every action has a permission of its own, so a junior moderator gets what you hand them and nothing else.
/padmin opens it. After that it is point and click, or a key you bound yourself.
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New in 1.2.0
Five things this version adds
Config editor
Open any plugin from the Plugins page and edit its config as a form. Booleans become switches, numbers and strings become fields, an object becomes a group, an array opens in its own window. Save writes the file and can reload the plugin for you.
Lang editor
The same form for language files. Copy the open language into a new code to start a translation, delete one you no longer need, or add a key and push it into every localization at once.
Map objects
Cupboards, bags and stashes on the map used to be dots. Click one and a menu opens with the owners and their avatars, a teleport, a remote inventory, and a destroy behind a confirmation.
Economy
If you run Economics, ServerRewards or IQEconomic, the player card shows the balance and lets you add to it, take from it or set it. Reading and changing are separate permissions.
Hammer & hints
The hammer edits container contents instead of only listing them, its action menu moved to a radial you open by holding E, and its HUD can be dragged. Tooltips were added across the sidebar, the actions and the toggles.
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The sidebar
Fourteen pages, plus whatever docks in
The panel reopens on the page you left. Add-ons appear in the same sidebar, use the same permission system and follow the theme the admin picked.
Dashboard
Live console
Players
Vanish
ESP
Server map
Binds
Permissions
Logs
Plugins
ConVars
Quick buttons
Appearance
Settings
Bans DLC
Freeze DLC
Whitelist DLC
Your own sections land here too, through the API at the bottom of this page
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Out in the world
Walk up to it and deal with it
Most moderation starts with you standing in front of a base, a player or a locked crate, not in a menu. Four tools cover that, and none of them asks the admin to install anything on their client.
Vanish
You leave the world properly: networking, colliders, entity queries and the game's own AI target list. NPCs stop shooting and forget you were standing there. Radiation, cold, wetness, hunger, thirst and drowning stop touching you, and everything is restored the way it was when you switch Vanish off. A silhouette for other admins, auto vanish on connect, opening locks and noclip riding along are all optional, and each has a permission.
Admin hammer
Hold a hammer, look at anything, and the HUD reads out the owner, position, health, upkeep, power, who is authorized, the code lock codes and what is in the container. Hold E to pick an action from the radial menu, then Shift+LMB runs it: delete, delete with gibs, delete the whole linked structure, edit the container contents, or on a hackable crate unlock it now and set its timer to any value you type.
Inspect
Look at a player and act on them without typing a name. E opens their inventory, RMB opens their full card. A hint on screen keeps telling you which key does what.
Server ESP
The server draws it with the engine's own debug draw and sends it only to admins who hold the permission. Players and sleepers carry their name, HP and held item. Loot, boxes, cupboards, bags, traps, stashes, NPCs, scientists, turrets and vehicles each get their own colour. You set the radius, the opacity and the text size, and enemy, team and admin are coloured apart.
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The player card
One card per player, awake or asleep
A searchable, paginated roster of everyone the server has ever seen. The card holds the SteamID, live status, current session and total playtime, total Rust hours from the Steam API, groups, first and last seen, the balance if you run an economy plugin, and the IP behind a permission of its own. Under that sit the actions.
Heal
Kill
Strip
Kick
Ban
Freeze
Mute
Teleport
Inventory
Spectate
Give
Blueprints
Modifiers
Vitals
Permissions
Notes
Show on map
Each of these has its own permission
Give is a cart, not a single item. Search the item list, stack up what you want, edit any quantity by clicking the number, then send the lot. Vitals reads the real limits off the prefab, so a raised max HP or a frozen metabolism survives death, respawn, reconnect and wipe.
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The map
The server map, drawn inside the panel
The island and the Deep Sea, with zoom. Layers go on one at a time, so you look at what you came for and nothing else.
Layers
Players, sleepers, cupboards, bags, stashes, cars, horses, air, shops, events and map notes. Cars, boats, submarines, trains, horses and player helicopters each have their own icon and an arrow showing where they are heading. The cargo ship, the cargo plane and the chinook are on the map with the rest.
Click an object
Cupboards, bags and stashes open a menu that names the owners and shows their Steam avatars. From there you can teleport to it, open its inventory from where you are standing, or destroy it behind a confirmation. Each of the three actions has a separate permission, so a moderator can be allowed to look without being allowed to delete.
Heat
PVP and raid heat build up from kills that actually happened and explosive damage that actually landed, over a window you set. It shows where the server is loud right now rather than guessing.
Side panel
A player search next to the map, and a card for whoever you picked with the same actions as the full player card. Hold Shift and place a map note to teleport straight to it.
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Server control
The parts you used to need RCON for
Live console
Server output as it happens, filtered by category, with a command line and history. It can be switched off entirely for everyone in Settings.
Permissions
Every permission on the server, grouped under the plugin that owns it. Toggle per user or per group, create and delete groups, set a parent group, and search across thousands of entries. PowerfulAdmin's own permissions can be locked so nobody edits them from inside the panel.
Plugins
Load, unload and reload anything on the server, then open its config and language files as a form and edit them without touching the filesystem. Editing is a separate permission from reloading, so an admin can restart a plugin without being able to rewrite it.
ConVars
Edit the server ConVars that matter, grouped and searchable. The panel keeps them in its own cfg file and applies them again on boot, so a restart does not quietly undo your work.
Logs
Commands, chat, joins, leaves, errors and warnings, colour coded and capped at a number you choose. Companion plugins write into the same log through the API.
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Make it yours
Bend it to how your team works
Quick buttons
Your own console commands as buttons, each with an icon, a colour, an optional confirmation and a permission of its own. You decide where a button shows up: the player card, the map, the dashboard or the floating widget.
Binds
Ready bind lines for the panel, Vanish, god mode, noclip, ESP, the hammer, inspect and the map. Type the key you want, select the generated line, Ctrl+C, paste into F1. One key toggles both ways.
Appearance
Three themes, Rust, Midnight and Plum, chosen per admin. Fonts are picked per slot, the window can be dragged, and the ESP text size is adjustable. Fonts without Cyrillic are marked in the picker.
Notifications
Panel messages go through Notify or NCP if you have either installed, or through chat, or nowhere at all. You pick the provider in Settings and the add-ons follow it.
Storage
SQLite by default, and it needs no setup. MySQL is there for networks that share data between servers, JSON for people who prefer files. Moving between them is one click in Settings and the data comes along.
Discord
An optional companion plugin ships in the same archive. Two way chat relay, feeds for bans, actions and errors, a bot with a live status line, and roles that decide who may run commands from Discord. It is set up in game, not in a config file.
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Permissions
Twenty seven of them, and that is the point
A trial moderator can be given Vanish, the player card and nothing else. A head admin gets the lot. The panel greys out what an admin cannot reach instead of hiding it, so nobody has to guess why a page is missing.
powerfuladmin.use
Open the panel at all
powerfuladmin.players
Player page and player cards
powerfuladmin.map
Map page
powerfuladmin.map.teleport
Teleport to an object on the map
powerfuladmin.map.loot
Open an object's inventory from the map
powerfuladmin.map.remove
Destroy an object from the map
powerfuladmin.esp
ESP page and the overlay itself
powerfuladmin.vanish
Vanish
powerfuladmin.vanish.unlock
Open locked doors and boxes while vanished
powerfuladmin.hammer
Admin hammer
powerfuladmin.hammer.codes
See code lock codes in the hammer HUD
powerfuladmin.hammer.loot
Edit container contents with the hammer
powerfuladmin.plugins
Plugin page, load and reload
powerfuladmin.plugins.edit
Edit plugin configs and language files
powerfuladmin.economy
See a player's balance
powerfuladmin.economy.edit
Change a player's balance
powerfuladmin.console
Live console page
powerfuladmin.perms
Permission manager
powerfuladmin.logs
Logs page
powerfuladmin.convars
ConVar editor
powerfuladmin.quickbuttons
Create and edit quick buttons
powerfuladmin.settings
Settings, storage and Discord
powerfuladmin.godmode
God mode toggle
powerfuladmin.noclip
Noclip toggle
powerfuladmin.viewip
Reveal player IP addresses
powerfuladmin.candisablevitals
Edit player vitals and metabolism
powerfuladmin.countableondashboard
Counts toward the admins online figure
On top of that, every action in the player card carries powerfuladmin.player.NAME, and every quick button you create carries powerfuladmin.quickbtn.NAME. You do not have to grant them one by one on day one: pa.setup <steamid or name> in the server console hands a player the whole set at once.
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Commands
One in chat, three in console
There is nothing else to memorise. The console ones exist mainly so you can bind them to keys.
/padmin
Open the panel
pa.open <page>
Open the panel straight on a page, for example pa.open map
pa.toggle <feature>
Flip vanish, god, noclip, ESP, hammer or inspect. Called without a value it toggles, so one key does both directions
pa.setup <steamid|name>
Grant the full permission set to a player, once, on install
Install
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Drop the plugin into your scripts folder. It loads and writes a clean config on its own. Oxide and Carbon both work.
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Run pa.setup with your name or steamid once in the server console.
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Type /padmin in game. You are in.
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Optional, later, in Settings: switch to MySQL, connect Discord, add a Steam API key for Rust hours, and copy your binds out of the Binds page.
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Add-ons
Bans, Freeze and Whitelist, sold separately
Three companion plugins drop into the sidebar and share the card, the permissions and the storage backend. They are extras rather than missing pieces: everything above this line works without them.
PowerfulBans
Timed and permanent bans in their own database, reason templates, per role duration caps, ban history and login enforcement. Runs standalone too.
PowerfulFreeze
Freeze a player where they stand while you talk to them, from the card, the map or the world, with live countdowns and three freeze modes.
PowerfulWhitelist
Closed server whitelisting with JSON, SQLite or MySQL storage and its own standalone commands.
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Before you buy
The questions that actually get asked
Will it lag my server?
It is built not to. Objects are pooled and buffers reused, only the element that changed repaints instead of the whole panel, saves are debounced, state is cached behind signatures, and ESP, inspect and the map run on intervals you can tune. Nothing runs for an admin who is not looking at it.
Is the ESP a cheat?
There is no client mod involved. The server draws it through the engine's own debug draw and sends it only to admins holding powerfuladmin.esp. Take the permission away and it stops existing for that admin.
Can a junior moderator abuse it?
Only as far as you let them. Every page has a permission, every action in the player card has one, every quick button you make has one, and the plugin's own permissions can be locked so they cannot be edited from inside the panel.
Do I need a database?
No. SQLite is the default and needs no configuration. MySQL is there for networks that want shared data, JSON for people who like plain files, and moving between them is one click in Settings.
Do I have to set up Discord or a Steam API key?
Neither. Discord is optional and configured in game when you want it. The Steam key only fills in the total Rust hours figure on player cards. Without it that one line reads n/a and nothing else changes.
Can I manage players who are offline?
Yes. Teleport to a sleeper, heal them, strip them, edit the inventory, mute, change permissions. Only the actions that need a live connection are disabled while a player is away.
Oxide or Carbon?
Both. On Carbon the panel's internal commands are protected on top of that, so nothing outside the panel can call them, while the public ones stay open for your binds.
What language does it speak?
English and Russian out of the box, and every string lives in a language file. Adding another locale is a translation rather than a code change, and you can now do it from inside the panel.
I write plugins. Can I hook into it?
Yes, and the section below shows how.
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For developers
Your plugin, inside the panel
Any plugin can register its own sidebar section and draw inside the panel, in the player's language and in whichever theme the admin picked. Bans, Freeze and Whitelist are built on this same public API, so it gets exercised on every release.
[PluginReference] private Plugin PowerfulAdmin;
var definition = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
["id"] = "mystats",
["icon"] = "assets/icons/star.png",
["category"] = "nav.cat.tools",
["permission"] = "myplugin.view",
["title"] = (Func<BasePlayer, string>)(p => "My Stats"),
["hint"] = (Func<BasePlayer, string>)(p => "Kills, deaths, playtime"),
["open"] = (Action<BasePlayer>)OpenSection,
["cardRows"] = (Func<string, List<string[]>>)CardRows,
["settings"] = (Action<BasePlayer, CuiElementContainer, string, int>)DrawSettings,
["settingsHeight"] = (Func<BasePlayer, int>)(p => 180),
["popupActions"] = new Dictionary<string, Action<BasePlayer, ulong, string>>
{
["ban"] = OnBan
}
};
PowerfulAdmin.Call("API_AddSection", definition);
Only id is required. Every other key is optional, and the permission is registered for you if no plugin has claimed it yet. Read API_SectionContext on every render to get the parent layer, the body size, the padding, the player's language and the full theme palette, because the admin can switch themes while your page is open.
API_AddSection(def)
Register or replace a section
API_RemoveSection(id)
Unregister, call it in Unload
API_OpenSection(player, id)
Send a player to your section
API_SectionContext(player)
Geometry, language and palette for rendering
API_ReopenPanel(player)
Reopen the panel where it was
API_RefreshPlayerCard(steamId)
Repaint a player card after your data changes
API_RefreshSettings(player)
Repaint the settings page after saving a value
API_Notify(player, message, isError)
Notify through the admin's chosen provider
API_Log(message, category)
Write a line into the Logs page
API_KnownPlayers()
Every player the server has seen
API_RustHours(steamId)
Total Rust playtime from the Steam API, cached
Support, updates and feature requests
Bugs get fixed and requests get read. LR Development Discord
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