Question about Skin Controller and Facepunch DLC compliance

I hope you’re doing well. I’m reaching out regarding an important update from Facepunch that will directly impact plugins like Skin Controller 2.0.13 starting August 7th, 2025.

Facepunch has updated their Community Server & Hosting Guidelines and will begin enforcement on August 7th. The key change is that servers are no longer allowed to grant access to Facepunch DLC or official Rust skins to players who have not purchased them.

This means:

Plugins that allow players to use skins they don’t own (e.g., via a skin menu or controller) will no longer comply with these rules.

Servers using these plugins risk being delisted from the server browser or banned.

Question:
Do you plan to release an update or alternative version of Skin Controller to comply with these new guidelines? For example:

Limiting skin access only to those the player actually owns (using Steam ownership checks).

Or providing a “compliant mode” where only free skins are available.

This change affects many server owners who love your plugin, so any guidance or updates would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your time and all the work you put into the Rust modding community.

14 hours ago, Gold Mysterious said:

I hope you’re doing well. I’m reaching out regarding an important update from Facepunch that will directly impact plugins like Skin Controller 2.0.13 starting August 7th, 2025.

Facepunch has updated their Community Server & Hosting Guidelines and will begin enforcement on August 7th. The key change is that servers are no longer allowed to grant access to Facepunch DLC or official Rust skins to players who have not purchased them.

This means:

Plugins that allow players to use skins they don’t own (e.g., via a skin menu or controller) will no longer comply with these rules.

Servers using these plugins risk being delisted from the server browser or banned.

Question:
Do you plan to release an update or alternative version of Skin Controller to comply with these new guidelines? For example:

Limiting skin access only to those the player actually owns (using Steam ownership checks).

Or providing a “compliant mode” where only free skins are available.

This change affects many server owners who love your plugin, so any guidance or updates would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your time and all the work you put into the Rust modding community.

A huge + to this! Please provide an update for these changes so we can keep using this plugin. Other SkinController skin alternatives have already pushed updates for this sort of thing

Already in progress  Will publish as soon as fully tested. 

Changed Status from Pending to Not a Bug