How to Install Carbon on your Rust Server

Carbon is a Rust modding framework that offers server owners an easy way to install plugins, make configuration changes, and moderate their servers. It ensures full backwards compatibility with Oxide while prioritizing lightweight design and high performance.

Despite Carbon having backward compatibility with Oxide, it can not be installed at the same time, and you are required to choose one or the other.

Carbon offers numerous features including an integrated stack and gather manager, permissions system, hook system, chat and console support, embedded demystifier, and more.

For more information about Carbon and the features it offers, you can read the Carbon Documentation.

Note: This article outlines the installation steps for the Carbon framework. For instructions on installing Oxide and Carbon plugins after installing Carbon, please consult this article.

Installing Carbon

You can install Carbon by selecting it as the modding framework found in the Rust Server Settings section of your control panel.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop your server.
  2. Navigate to Files > Config Files.
  3. Click Rust Server Settings.
  4. Ensure the Automatic Updates option is Enabled.
  5. Locate the Modding Framework option, and select Carbon.
  6. Select the Carbon Version you would like to install to pair it with the version of Rust your server is using. (Example: If you are hosting a staging branch server, select staging)

    You can learn what each Carbon Version provides here.
  7. Save and Start your server.
  8. To ensure Carbon is installed, go to your console and type c.version.

To learn more about Rust server hosting, you can browse our library of Knowledgebase articles here.

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Mitchell Smith

Managing Director @ Shockbyte

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