Settings

The Settings dialog holds RustEdit's options. Open it with File›Settings.

How the dialog works

• The groups are on the left. Click one to see its settings on the right.
• Type in the Search settings box to find a setting. The list then shows the matching settings of every group. A group name or a setting name can match. Click a group to end the search.
• A change works at once. Some settings, such as the folders under Paths, need a restart. Notifications then says Restart RustEdit to apply the change to and the setting's name.
• A setting that is not at its default value has a reset icon at the end of its row. Click it (Reset to default) to put the default back.

RustEdit saves the settings when you quit and when you open a map. They are in Configuration/configuration.json in RustEdit's folder. The Map Generator group is in Configuration/map_generator.json.

warning

Only edit these files while RustEdit is closed. RustEdit writes them when it quits, so changes made while it runs can be lost.

AI Access

Lets AI apps use RustEdit's tools. See AI access.

Setting	Default	What it does
Allow AI Apps	Off	AI apps on this computer (Claude, Cursor and others) can use RustEdit's tools through MCP. Needs RustEdit Plus.
Port	47950	The port AI apps connect to, http://127.0.0.1: and the port, then /mcp. Only this computer can connect. 1024 to 65535.
Access Key	Empty	The key the AI app sends with every request. RustEdit makes one when AI access first starts. Clear it to make a new one.

AutoSave

See Auto save.

Setting	Default	What it does
Enable Autosave	Off	Saves a copy of the map into the autosave folder at each interval while the map has unsaved changes. The map's own file does not change.
Interval (minutes)	15	Minutes between copies. 1 to 60. The first copy comes one interval after you turn auto save on.
Maximum Saves	3	How many copies RustEdit keeps: autosave_1.scene, autosave_2.scene and so on. After the last one, it writes over autosave_1.scene again. 1 to 100.

The copies go to the Autosave Folder under Paths. Notifications says [Autosave] Saved a copy of the map to and the path of the file. Changes to these settings work at once.

• The map keeps its own file and its unsaved changes. Save it as usual.
• A copy has no map password, even when the map has one.
• Auto save copies the map only. It makes no copy while a monument is open or while you are in play mode.
• After a restart, RustEdit starts again at autosave_1.scene.

Camera

See The scene view.

Setting	Default	What it does
FOV	70	The camera's field of view in degrees. 60 to 120.
View Distance	2500	How far the camera draws, in meters. 100 to 6000.
Speed	10	How fast the camera flies, in meters per second. 1 to 200.
Fast Speed	100	How fast the camera flies while you hold Shift. 1 to 200.
Invert Mouse	Off	Turns the up and down look around.
Gizmo Position	0.95, 0.9	Where the camera gizmo sits in the scene view. X goes from 0 (left) to 1 (right), Y from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top).

Compass

Setting	Default	What it does
Enable Compass	On	Has no effect in this version.

Graphics

How good the scene view looks, and how fast it draws. For more, see Graphics settings.

Setting	Default	What it does
Anti-Aliasing Mode	FXAA	Smooths jagged edges: None, FXAA, SMAA or TSSAA.
Ambient Occlusion	On	Darkens corners and gaps that light does not reach.
Auto Exposure	On	Changes the brightness of the picture as the view gets lighter or darker.
Bloom	On	A glow around bright light.
Biome Fog	On	The fog of each biome.
Climate System	On	Changes the look of the picture with the biome the camera is in.
Contact Shadows	On	Small shadows where objects touch.
Foliage System	On	Draws grass and small plants.
Foliage Shadows	On	Whether grass and small plants cast shadows: Off, On, TwoSided or ShadowsOnly.
Global Quality	2	The overall quality level: 0 low, 1 medium, 2 high. Restart RustEdit after you change it: the new level is used from the next start.
Grass Quality	100	How dense the grass is. 0 to 100.
Grass Distance	150	How far away grass is drawn, in meters.
Light Shafts	On	Rays of sunlight.
Mesh Quality	100	How long objects keep their detailed models as they get further away. 0 to 100.
Motion Blur	On	Blurs the picture while the camera moves.
Occlusion Culling	On	Skips objects that are hidden behind others, so the view draws faster.
Parallax Mapping	2	0 to 2. Has no effect in this version.
Sharpen	On	Sharpens the picture.
Vignette	On	Darkens the edges of the picture.
Volume Effects	On	Changes the light when the camera is inside, for example in a cave or tunnel. Off, the light is always as outdoors.
Target Frame Rate	100	The highest frame rate RustEdit draws at. 15 to 240.
Lower FPS Minimized	On	Lowers the frame rate to 10 while RustEdit is not the active window.
Water Quality	High	Low, Medium or High.
Water Reflections	On	Reflections on the water.
Volume Clouds	2	Cloud quality: 0 off, 1 low, 2 medium, 3 high, 4 ultra.

Interface

Setting	Default	What it does
Match Desktop Scaling	On	Sets the scale from the Windows display scaling, so 175% in Windows is a scale of 1.75. Changing Scale turns this off.
Scale	1	The size of the whole interface. 0.5 to 3.

tip

If the interface is too small on a 4K screen, turn Match Desktop Scaling on. If it is too large, move Scale down.

LOD

Setting	Default	What it does
Distance Multiplier	1	A multiplier for the default LOD distances in Rust. Higher keeps detailed models further away, but draws slower. 1 to 10.

Map Generator

How the map image looks in the Map panel and in saved map images. The settings button on the Map panel opens this group.

Setting	Default	What it does
Use Biome Colors	On	Tints the splat color based on the biome at that point.
Biome Blend	0.5	The blend of the biome colors and base splat colors. 0 to 1.
Biome Contrast	0.9	The contrast of the biome colors. 0 to 1.
Use Normal Map	On	Applies the terrain normals to the map to give it depth.
Normal Strength	1.5	The strength of the normal map. 0 to 2.
Sun Power	0.65	The power of the sun on the map. 0 to 2.
Brightness	1.05	The brightness of the map. 0 to 2.
Contrast	0.94	The contrast of the map. 0 to 2.
Export Size	4096 x 4096	The width and height in pixels of a saved map image: 512 x 512 to 8192 x 8192.
Map Margin	1000	Meters of sea drawn around the terrain on the map and on saved images. The grid lines go on over it, the labels do not. 0 to 2000.
Grid Color > Overworld	Dark gray	The color of the grid on the map. Alpha sets how strong it is.
Grid Color > Underworld	Light gray	The color of the grid when an underground layer is shown.
Underground Color > Overlay	Purple	The color the map turns when an underground layer is shown, and in the Tunnel Editor. Alpha sets how much of the map it covers.
Underground Color > Layer	White	The color of tunnels and labs when an underground layer is shown.
Monument Color	Dark gray	The color of the monuments on the map.
Water Color	Blue gray	The color of the water on the map.
Offshore Color	Dark blue green	The color of the offshore water on the map.
Dirt Color, Snow Color, Sand Color, Rock Color, Grass Color, Forest Color, Pebble Color, Gravel Color	Rust's map colors	The color of each ground texture on the map. Each has a base color and one color for each biome.

Marketplace

See Browse and download.

Setting	Default	What it does
Search The Marketplace	On	The Content Browser search also finds prefabs sold on rusthq.com. It reads the marketplace list from rusthq.com when you search.

Password

See Map password.

Setting	Default	What it does
Dump Passwords	Off	Each time you save a map with a password, RustEdit adds the date, the file and the password to Configuration/passwords.txt. Use it to find a forgotten password.

warning

passwords.txt is plain text. Anyone who can open RustEdit's folder can read your map passwords. Only turn Dump Passwords on if nobody else can open that folder.

Paths

The folders RustEdit uses. Leave a path empty to use the folder of that name in RustEdit's own folder. A path to a folder that does not exist also uses that default. Changes need a restart.

Setting	Default folder	What is in it
Rust Install Location	Set on the first start	Where RustEdit reads Rust's content from. See Installation.
Custom Monuments	CustomMonuments	Your custom monuments. They show in the Content Browser.
Brushes	Brushes	Your own terrain brushes.
Stamps	CustomStamps	Your own terrain stamps.
Prefab Palettes	PrefabPalettes	Prefab Brush lists.
Loot Presets	LootPresets	Loot profiles.
Vending Presets	VendingPresets	Vending profiles.
Autosave Folder	Autosave	Autosaves.
Custom Nodes	CustomNodes	Custom nodes for the Terrain Graph.
Custom Prefab Fields	CustomPrefabFields	Custom data manifests.

tip

Point Custom Monuments, Brushes or Prefab Palettes at a shared or synced folder to use the same files on two computers.

Sockets

See Sockets.

Setting	Default	What it does
Draw Distance	150	How far from the camera sockets are drawn, in meters. 10 to 2000.
Handle Size	16	The size of a socket marker on the screen, in pixels. 4 to 48.

Time

The time of day and the date of the sky. The Time and Weather panel changes the same values.

Setting	Default	What it does
Progress Time	On	The time of day moves on by itself.
Hour	12	The time of day. 0 to 24.
Day	15	1 to 31.
Month	6	1 to 12.
Year	2000	1900 to 2100.

Undo

Setting	Default	What it does
Record Selections	On	Records selections as undo steps, so Ctrl+Z also takes back a selection.
Max Undo Steps	30	The maximum number of undo steps RustEdit keeps. 1 to 1000.

Settings that are not in the dialog

Some settings are saved in other places:

What	Where to change it
Language	configuration.json, see Language.
Show RustEdit in your Discord status	configuration.json: Show status on Discord under Discord.
Show sockets and Move Individually	The transform widget and the socket tools. See Sockets.
Panel layouts	Interface›Layouts, see Layouts.
Interface colors	Interface›Color Scheme, see Color schemes.
Weather	The Time and Weather panel, see Time and weather.
Render resolution	The scene view header, see The scene view.

Related

• The interface
• Graphics settings
• Layouts
• Color schemes
• Language