How to set your Rust Servers MOTD

Last updated 08 Jun 2025

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The MOTD is what you will first in chat when connectiong to your server, this can be used to give your players some information about the server when they connect.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel

2 Head to the file manager.

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3 Click on the Server folder.

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4 Now, open the Rust folder.

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5 Open the cfg folder.

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6 Now, open the serverauto.cfg file.

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7 Navigate the configuration files until you find "server.motd"

8 Within this, you will enter the information you would like displayed between the "".

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9 From there, you can start your rust server.