About OnlyPlugins

Discover, download and share Oxide plugins for the game Rust, made for the community.

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Overview

OnlyPlugins is a directory where the Rust community can discover, download and share Oxide/uMod plugins for the game Rust. Anyone can browse and download plugins for free. Anyone can also become a Publisher and upload their own plugins — there's no paywall to contribute.

Every plugin here is checked against a live Oxide/Rust build using our own Compiler before it's accepted, so what you download is confirmed to actually compile against the current game version.

Accounts & roles

Browsing and downloading needs no account. Creating an account (Register) unlocks leaving ratings/reviews and subscribing to a plugin's update notifications. From there, access grows through a few levels:

Level	Who	Unlocks
Member	Anyone with an account	Reviews, ratings, subscribing to plugin updates
Publisher	Any Member who validates via Discord	Uploading plugins, proposing edits, the Compiler
Trusted	Publishers granted extra trust by staff	Uploads & edits go live immediately, skipping the review queue
Moderator	Appointed by staff	Reviewing the upload & edit queue
Admin	Appointed by staff	Full site administration

Publisher status is open to everyone — see Publisher tools below for how to unlock it. Trusted, Moderator and Admin are granted individually by the team and aren't self-service.

Browsing, downloading & reviews

Browse — search plugins by name, filter by category, and sort by popularity, rating, or newest.
Plugin pages — each plugin has a description, changelog with version history and diffs between versions, and a reviews tab.
Downloads — free, no account required. Plugins with a staging build let you grab the version built for Rust's staging/beta branch as well as the main branch.
Security scan badge — plugins are automatically scanned for suspicious code patterns (e.g. code that reaches out to the network or file system in unusual ways). A flag is a warning to look closer, not proof of anything malicious — click it to see exactly which lines matched.
Ratings & reviews — logged-in Members can leave a star rating and written review on any plugin.
Subscribe — logged-in Members can subscribe to a plugin to be notified about future updates.
Authors — browse every publisher and see what they've published.

Publisher tools

Anyone can become a Publisher — it just needs a verified email and a Discord account in our server. Go to Account → Validate, link your Discord user ID, and confirm the activation code we send you there. Once linked, uploading is unlocked immediately.

As a Publisher you can:

Upload a plugin — submit your .cs file, an icon/banner, category, description and changelog. New Publisher uploads go into a short moderator review queue before they go live.
Propose edits — suggest a code change to any existing plugin (not just your own). A moderator reviews the diff before it's merged.
Staging builds — publish a second build targeted at Rust's staging branch alongside your main build, with its own scheduled "after wipe" action.
Version history — every accepted update is kept, with a line-by-line diff viewer against any previous version.
Use the Compiler (below) to check your code compiles before you ever submit it.

The Compiler

The Compiler is one of the site's core tools: it validates your plugin's C# source against a live reference build of Oxide/Rust — the same kind of build the game server itself would use — so you find out about compile errors before you upload, not after.

Find it at Account → Compiler once you're a Publisher.

Branches

Every check runs against one of two branches, and the tool shows you the exact Oxide.Rust version and Assembly-CSharp build date each branch is currently compiled against:

Main — matches the live, current production version of Rust.
Staging — matches Facepunch's staging/beta branch, so you can get ahead of an upcoming update.

Single Editor mode

A full code editor in your browser (syntax highlighting, bracket matching, search) where you can paste code or load a .cs file from your computer:

New scaffolds a fresh plugin file for you — give it a class name, an info/display name and an author, and it builds the boilerplate.
Insert hook… is a searchable picker covering 660+ Oxide hooks (lifecycle hooks like Init()/Unload(), chat & console commands, and boilerplate like permission registration, config classes, and data file load/save), and drops the snippet straight in at your cursor.
Validate (or Ctrl+Enter) sends your code to the chosen branch. Pass/fail shows immediately; on failure, click any error to jump straight to that line and column in the editor.

Bulk Validator mode

Pick or drag-and-drop up to 1,000 .cs files at once — useful for checking an entire plugin collection against a branch in one go. Files are sent in batches, run several at a time, and each file gets its own row showing pass/fail/error and how long it took to compile.

For scripts & AI coding agents

The Compiler also exposes a small password-protected JSON API, separate from your site login, so a script or an AI agent that's writing a plugin can validate its own code before handing it back to a person. Full request/response docs — including a ready-to-run example — are published at ?action=api_spec (no password needed just to read the docs).

Developer API

Separate from the Compiler's API above, there's also a small read-only Developer API for browsing published plugins and checking a plugin's latest version and download link — handy for bots, launchers, or in-game portals that want to check for updates automatically.