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Maintaining Order: Professional Administration

In the high-stakes, competitive environment of Rust, toxicity and cheating can rapidly dismantle a community’s reputation and player base. As a server owner, you must be prepared to swiftly and decisively remove problematic players using their SteamID64 (a unique 17-digit identifier). This ensures that offenders are permanently restricted from rejoining your world under that specific account. The FREAKHOSTING Game Panel provides multiple interfaces for executing these critical moderation tasks.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Time

5 Minutes

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Identifying the Offender

To issue a valid ban, you must retrieve the player’s primary network identifier.
  • BattleMetrics Integration: Locate your server, find the specific player’s profile in the activity log, and copy the numerical string in the Steam ID field.
  • External Lookup: If you only possess their profile URL, utilized a tool like SteamID.io to retrieve the 64-bit ID (e.g., 76561198012345678).

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The Administrative Banning Process

Choose the interface that best suits your current operational environment.
The most direct method for active moderators.
  1. Press F1 to open the developer overlay.
  2. Execute the following command: banid <SteamID> "<Reason>"
  3. important Finalization: You MUST execute the command writecfg immediately after. If you neglect this step, the ban will reside only in temporary memory and will vanish upon the next server restart.

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IP Banning vs. Account Restrictions

While Rust supports the banip command, it is frequently considered less reliable than SteamID bans due to the prevalence of dynamic IP addresses and VPN usage. For persistent offenders using multiple “Alt” accounts, we recommend deploying specialized Oxide modifications such as SmartGuard or VPNBlock to identify and intercept suspicious connection signatures automatically.

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Last Updated: January 2026 | Rust: Moderation tools verified.