COMPATIBILITY WITH FACEPUNCH NEW POLICY
VERY IMPORTANT
Rust / Server Plugins
BetterTC
Tool Cupboard ManagementRust Plugin
Upgrade. Repair. Reskin. Make your base your own.
Bring your most-used Tool Cupboard features together in one interface inspired by Rust’s item store. Automate building upgrades and repairs, manage authorizations, and personalize buildings, external walls, wallpapers and your TC.
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Automated upkeep tasks Upgrade and repair with TC resources |
Personalized buildings Skins, wallpapers and external walls |
Permission profiles Configure access, speed and costs |
01 / Video demo
See BetterTC in action
Take a look at BetterTC’s interface and building management features.
02 / Skin ownership
Compatibility with Facepunch’s server policy
Facepunch’s policy prohibits granting paid skins or DLC to players who do not legitimately own them. BetterTC includes ownership validation for building skins, TC skins and wallpapers.
- Building skins: all available choices remain visible, but players can only apply skins they own or skins that are free.
- Wallpapers: only free, custom and owned wallpapers are visible. More custom wallpapers are planned.
- TC skins: only owned skins are visible and selectable.
Read Facepunch’s official server policy
Ownership checks are enabled with the following bypass option set to false:
"Bypass DLC ownership check (⚠ only allowed on creative/test servers per Facepunch rules)": false
⚠ Very important
Keep the bypass disabled on ordinary public PvP and PvE servers. Facepunch only permits temporary exceptions on servers specifically set up to test game mechanics, for testing purposes. A creative or training label alone is not an exemption. Misuse may result in delisting or other sanctions.
03 / Building management
Let the TC do the work
Automatic upgrades
Upgrade building grades using resources directly from the TC. Select the default appearance or an eligible building skin, and use the information button to estimate the materials required. Configure upgrade speed and costs through permission profiles.
Automatic repairs
Repair the building and supported deployables, including doors, trapdoors, windows and boxes, with resources from the TC. Configure a cooldown after recent damage to help prevent repair abuse during raids.
Automatic reskinning
Change a building’s appearance without manually replacing each piece. Players can switch from a skinned grade back to its default appearance when they prefer. The Container skin’s multicolor selection can also be disabled to reduce client rendering load.
Building downgrades
Allow players to return to a lower building grade when their base becomes too expensive to maintain. Downgrading charges resources as a fresh upgrade to the selected grade; it is not a free conversion. Disable this feature if it does not fit your server, or retain a separate administrator-only downgrade override.
04 / Building skins
Keep the available skins up to date
The skin update checker adds newly available construction skins and their options to the configuration.
05 / External walls
Change the look. Preserve the damage.
Reskin stone external walls with their adobe or ice variants, or switch wooden external walls to Frontier and back. Supported external gates can also be reskinned to their available variants. The original wall’s health is preserved, so reskinning a damaged wall does not repair it.
Recommended setting:
"Only reskin on wall of the same grade": true
Keep this enabled to use external wall reskinning as an appearance change. Disabling it allows wood-to-stone and stone-to-wood changes without a resource charge, because this wall system has no cost mechanism.
06 / Wallpapers & TC skins
Personalize the details
- Automatically place eligible wallpapers on walls, ceilings and floors. New game wallpapers are added to the list automatically.
- Use included custom wallpapers and add your own through the admin wallpaper commands.
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Configure placement on both sides of walls, including exterior sides.
Apply wallpapers to both sides of a wall, including the exterior side when configured.
- Place wallpapers on boats with /wpb after sitting at the boat’s steering wheel.
- Let players change their TC’s appearance or deploy a TC with a skin, according to their permissions and ownership.
Tool Cupboard skin selection
Choose an eligible TC skin from the interface, or deploy a TC using the selected skin. BetterTC carries over the cupboard’s authorizations, contents and lock when replacing its appearance.
Manual wallpaper tool menu
Hold the wallpaper tool and open BetterTC’s selector with /wp or the configured input button. The default input is the middle mouse button. This menu must be enabled in the configuration and requires bettertc.wallpaper.toolmenu.
Wallpaper rotation hammer
Administrators can obtain a special wallpaper hammer with /wphammer. Hit a wallpapered floor or foundation with this hammer to rotate its wallpaper: 90° on square pieces and 120° on triangles.
Configure the cloth cost of automated wallpaper placement. Building placement uses cloth from the TC; boat placement uses cloth from the player’s inventory. The no-cost wallpaper permission waives placement resource costs.
Set "Wallpaper Damage": false to protect wallpapers from melee and ammunition damage. C4 and rockets can still damage them.
07 / Authorization & inventory
Manage access from the cupboard
Authorized player list
Show who is authorized on the TC, optionally including Steam IDs and Online, Sleeping or Offline status through the player-status permission. Hide administrators with the configured option and allow individual authorization removal with a separate permission.
Automatic TC locks
Use separate permissions to automatically attach a locked key lock or code lock when a TC is deployed. Code locks use a generated code, authorize the deploying player and notify them of the code; the notification masks it in streamer mode. The code-lock permission takes priority when both lock permissions are assigned.
Additional TC storage
Configure which additional item types the TC accepts: gunpowder, sulfur, sulfur ore, explosives, diesel barrels, CCTV cameras and targeting computers. Each item type has its own switch. Select a general inventory filter: Resources, ResourcesAndComponents or All. The ResourcesAndComponents mode also accepts supported building and utility tools.
08 / Interface & integrations
A panel that adapts to your players
- The panel keeps a consistent size across player UI scaling settings.
- Buttons rearrange automatically according to the functions the player can access.
- Authorization lists and construction skins support pagination. Building options can be automatically sorted by grade, or retain the configured order.
- Configure whether players can disable automatic construction effects.
- Most interface images load directly from the game client.
- Carbon servers use the built-in Image Module; Oxide servers use ImageLibrary.
- Configure game tip, chat and optional Notify or UINotify alerts, plus button colors and positioning.
TiersMode and TCLevels
When TiersMode is installed, BetterTC reads its maximum unlocked building grade for the upgrade menu. When TCLevels is installed, BetterTC adds a button to open its Tool Cupboard level-upgrade menu.
09 / Permissions
Choose the functions each player can use
Assign feature permissions and configure the standard and advanced profiles to match your server. Grant the no-cost permissions carefully.
| Permission | Purpose |
|---|---|
| bettertc.admin | Admin update checks; also used to hide administrators from the authorization list when configured. |
| bettertc.authlist | Show the authorized-player list button. |
| bettertc.playerstatus | Show Online, Sleeping or Offline status in the authorization list. |
| bettertc.deleteauth | Revoke individual player authorizations. |
| bettertc.use | Use the standard speed and cost profile defined in the configuration. |
| bettertc.vip | Use the advanced speed and cost profile defined in the configuration. |
| bettertc.repair | Access automatic building repair. |
| bettertc.repair.nocost | Repair without resource costs. |
| bettertc.reskin | Access automatic building reskinning. |
| bettertc.reskin.nocost | Reskin without resource costs. |
| bettertc.upskin | Show building upgrade options with skins. |
| bettertc.upwall | Access external wall reskinning. |
| bettertc.upgrade | Access building upgrades. |
| bettertc.upgrade.nocost | Upgrade without resource costs. |
| bettertc.wallpaper | Access wallpaper placement. |
| bettertc.wallpaper.nocost | Place wallpapers without resource costs. |
| bettertc.wallpaper.custom | Show custom wallpapers. |
| bettertc.wallpaper.toolmenu | Access the manual wallpaper tool selector when enabled. |
| bettertc.tcskinchange | Change the TC skin. |
| bettertc.tcskindeployed | Deploy a TC with a skin. |
| bettertc.autolock | Automatically add a locked key lock when deploying a TC. |
| bettertc.autocodelock | Automatically add a locked code lock with a generated code when deploying a TC. |
Skin-related permissions do not replace paid-content ownership checks.
10 / Commands
Add custom wallpapers
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
| /addwp <skinid> <Wall|Floor|Ceiling> | Chat: add a custom wallpaper for the selected surface type. |
| addwp <skinid> <Wall|Floor|Ceiling> | Console: add a custom wallpaper for the selected surface type. |
| /wpb | Chat: place wallpapers on boats; first sit at the boat’s steering wheel. |
| /wp | Chat: open the manual wallpaper menu while holding the wallpaper tool; requires bettertc.wallpaper.toolmenu. |
| /wphammer | Chat: give yourself the wallpaper rotation hammer; requires bettertc.admin. |
| wphammer | Player console: give yourself the wallpaper rotation hammer; requires bettertc.admin. |
| wphammer <playername or steamid> | Server console: give the wallpaper rotation hammer to a selected player. |
Adding wallpapers from chat or a player console requires bettertc.admin. Example for a wall wallpaper:
/addwp 3356517390 Wall Console equivalent: addwp 3356517390 Wall
11 / Configuration
Selected configuration options
This excerpt covers the settings supplied with this description, including ownership checks, raid blocking, repairs, wallpapers and permission profiles. It is not the complete configuration file, and these supplied example values may differ from the defaults in your installed version. Edit the configuration generated by your installed BetterTC version.
{
"Check for updates when loading": true,
"Bypass DLC ownership check (⚠ only allowed on creative/test servers per Facepunch rules)": false,
"Use NoEscape Plugin": false,
"Use RaidBlock Plugin": true,
"GUI Buttons TC - Color Default": "0.3 0.40 0.3 0.60",
"GUI Buttons TC - Color Active": "0.90 0.20 0.20 0.50",
"GUI Buttons TC - OffsetMin": "280 621",
"GUI Buttons TC - OffsetMax": "573 643",
"GUI Buttons TC - AnchorMin": "0.5 0",
"GUI Buttons TC - AnchorMax": "0.5 0",
"Alert Gametip": true,
"Alert Chat": true,
"Alert Notify Plugin": false,
"Notify: select what notification type to be used": {
"error": 0,
"info": 0
},
"Color Prefix Chat": "#f74d31",
"Show Admin Auth List": false,
"Show SteamID Auth List": true,
"Upgrade Effect": true,
"Colour Selection MultiColor Option": false,
"Reskin Enable": true,
"Reskin Wall Enable": true,
"Only reskin on wall of the same grade": true,
"Reskin Wall TC Distance (Default: 100)": 100.0,
"Deployables Repair": true,
"Repair Cooldown After Recent Damage (seconds)": 30.0,
"Downgrade Enable": true,
"Downgrade only Owner Entity Build": false,
"Upgrade only Owner Entity Build": false,
"Upgrade / Downgrade only Owner and Team": true,
"Wallpaper Enable": true,
"Wallpaper placement Cost (Cloth)": 5,
"Wallpaper Damage": true,
"Wallpaper both sides": true,
"Force both sides including external sides": true,
"Cooldown Frequency Upgrade (larger number is slower)": {
"bettertc.use": 2.0,
"bettertc.vip": 1.0
},
"Cooldown Frequency Reskin (larger number is slower)": {
"bettertc.use": 2.0,
"bettertc.vip": 1.0
},
"Cooldown Frequency Repair (larger number is slower)": {
"bettertc.use": 2.0,
"bettertc.vip": 1.0
},
"Cooldown Frequency Wallpaper (larger number is slower)": {
"bettertc.use": 2.0,
"bettertc.vip": 1.0
},
"Cost Modifier for repairs": {
"bettertc.use": 1.5,
"bettertc.vip": 1.0
},
"Allow Items in TC Inventory": {
"gunpowder": false,
"sulfur": false,
"sulfur.ore": false,
"explosives": false,
"diesel_barrel": true,
"cctv.camera": true,
"targeting.computer": true
},
"Downgrade Admin": true,
"Use BetterTC Wallpaper Tool Menu (requires bettertc.wallpaper.toolmenu permission)": true,
"BetterTC Wallpaper Tool Menu input button (FIRE_THIRD = middle mouse button)": "FIRE_THIRD",
"Item Category Filter (Resources, ResourcesAndComponents, All)": "Resources",
"Auto Sort Items by Grade": true
}
12 / Known issue
Unexpected default blue wallpapers
If default blue wallpapers appear randomly, check whether TruePVE or a similar plugin is protecting wallpaper damage. Disable that wallpaper protection in the other plugin and use BetterTC’s own wallpaper protection instead.
BetterTC’s protection reduces damage, especially from melee attacks, but does not block all damage.
13 / Support
Questions, ideas or a problem to report?
Contact ninco90 on Discord for questions, suggestions or assistance.
Custom server configuration is also available for an additional fee if you would like the plugin set up around your preferences.
