⚙️Installing Carbon

Learn how to add Carbon to your Rust server.

Getting started

To get started, please follow the following instructions underneath, specified for the operating system of your liking:

Windows

To install Carbon on your Windows dedicated Rust server, you must follow these steps:

Please verify all server files and keep the server up to date every time it boots up.

1. Go to the GitHub Releases page and download the latest Carbon.Windows.TARGET.zip.
2. Unpack the archive in the root folder of your server; extract all files the same way they're presented in the archive, on top of the folder where RustDedicated.exe exists.

3. Launch the server as you normally would, with your shell/batch command line instructions.

4. You're good to go!

TARGET can be Release or Debug, depending on the build branch you're using.

Linux

To install Carbon on your Linux dedicated Rust server, you must follow these steps:

1. Download the latest Carbon.Linux.TARGET.tar.gz from the Github Releases page.
2. Unpack the archive in the root folder of your server

   1. Extract all files the same way they're presented in the archive, on top of the folder where RustDedicated exists

   2. From now on this dictory will be named [GAMEROOT].

3. In the launch file of your server, please have the following order of events:

   1. Verify and update game files to latest (usually using steamcmd)

   2. Load (i.e. source) the file "[GAMEROOT]/carbon/tools/environment.sh"

   3. Launch the server as you normally would i.e. "RustDedicated -batchmode .."

4. You're good to go!

For more information have a look at the example launcher script. On some distros and specially with docker you'll also need to export TERM=xterm before launching the server.

OSX

There's currently no support for the OSX operating system.

Smart Fridge

There's currently no support for any Smart Fridge systems.