How to kick idle players on your Rust server

Set Kick idle players after (minutes) in the Players group of Server Settings (server.cfg) and click Save & restart. The panel describes it as Players who do nothing for this long are kicked when the server is full or nearly full. 0 never kicks. A new server has 30 minutes.

Change it

1. Open your server in the panel and click the Settings tab.
2. In the left card, under Config files, click Server Settings (server.cfg).
3. In the Players group, type the number of minutes in Kick idle players after (minutes), from 0 to 1440.

4. Click Save & restart, or Save only to apply it at the next start.

Choose a value

• Lower, for example 10: on a busy server, players who are away make room sooner for players who want to play.
• Higher, up to 1440 (a day): players can stay away longer before they are kicked.
• 0: nobody is ever kicked for being idle.

The kick only happens when the server is full or nearly full. On a quiet server, idle players stay.

Good to know

• A kicked player can join again straight away.
• To kick one player by hand, use the row menu on the Active players card: How to kick, ban and add admins on your Rust server.
• To let more people in at once, raise your slots: How to change player slots on your Rust server.
• Every server.cfg option: How to set server browser tags and server.cfg options on your Rust server.