Easily Host Custom Rust Maps On RustMaps.com

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RustMaps.com The New Easiest Way To Host Custom Rust Maps

Hosting a map for your Rust server has always been a simple task of uploading your .map file to Dropbox or Discord, copy the link, and then paste it within your server startup parameters. Well, due to recent changes on both Dropbox and Discord, we’ve made this simple guide to easily accomplish this task with RustMaps.com without the worry of your links breaking, being rate-limited, and more!

Table of Contents

What is RustMaps.com
Why Use RustMaps
How to Upload Your Custom Map to RustMaps
Conclusion

What is RustMaps.com

In my own words as a server owner, RustMaps.com is a website/service that allows any and all server owners to find, customize, and generate their very own custom procedural Rust maps. In addition to that, they’ve added the ability for server owners to upload their own maps as an alternative to Dropbox, Discord, Github, or other file hosting solutions with added benefits such as an informative embed as shown below!

Overview screenshot of the home page of Rustmaps.com featuring their generated collection of procedural maps within their library.

Map overview page on Rustmaps.com after uploading your own custom map.

Why Use RustMaps

Having a stable and reliable source of map hosting is extremely important when running a Rust server, if your map download link becomes rate-limited, or expires like what Dropbox and Discord have begun doing then you must find an alternative, that’s where Rustmaps steps in to fill the void! Hoppel, the owner of Rustmaps.com, along with Mr. Blue who also works on the project has opened the door for anyone to host their own maps on their service which gives us, the server owners, peace of mind knowing there’s a platform out there we can utilize to host our maps on!

Stability: Provides an extremely stable infrastructure server owners can rely on to host their maps and use their service.
Informative: You’ll have access to more information about maps such as animal spawns, monument placement markers, and more.
Configurable: Customizing how your embed or map will be listed which provides you options when sharing links within your community on wipe announcements & more.
In-House: Created and run by communities right here within the Rust community who have an outstanding reputation amongst the development scene.

How to Upload Your Custom Map to RustMaps

Visit https://rustmaps.com/
Login/Sign-up
Navigate to https://rustmaps.com/dashboard/uploads
Hit the Upload Map button
Enter your desired info and upload the .map file (file size limit 80mb)
Wait for your map to be processed (depending on demand may take a few minutes)
Hit the “Use” button after it’s finished and copy the URL to use for your server and that’s it!

Here’s a visual of the steps above for reference.

The custom map upload page where the upload map button is located and where all of your existing custom maps will be listed once you use this.

A lovely waiting screen while your custom map is being processed by the wizards.

The location of the "use" button where you can then copy the link for your server to host the map url. — The location of the “use” button where you can then copy the link for your server to host the map url.

The pop up dialog once you click on the "Use" button once your map is done processing where you can copy your map url to safely use for your server to host with! — The pop up dialog once you click on the “Use” button once your map is done processing where you can copy your map url to safely use for your server to host with!

Conclusion

Until now, there have always been a just few selections to reliably host custom Rust maps on, primarily I’ve personally used Discord since it was the easiest, however, they’ve announced by the end of 2023 they’re going to begin including expirations on their CDN links that members have been using so the files you upload to Discord will have a limited life-span. So I’m glad the team at RM has stepped up and allowed server owners the ability to host on their platform in addition to utilizing it for procedural map generations and much more!

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