How to Enable Tutorial Island and Add the Tutorial Tag to a Rust Server

Rust configures Tutorial Island and its server-browser tag separately. Enable the tutorial itself, then add the Tutorial tag to advertise compatibility.

Rust configures Tutorial Island and its server-browser tag separately. Enable the tutorial itself, then add the Tutorial tag to advertise compatibility.

Enable Tutorial Island

Tutorial Island is disabled by default. Enable it with:

server.tutorialEnabled true

When server.tutorialEnabled is false, players are not prompted to begin the tutorial and cannot start it manually on that server.

Test Tutorial Island with the server's active configuration before advertising compatibility. Mods that change core gameplay features can prevent parts of the tutorial from working.

Add the Tutorial tag

The server-browser value for the Tutorial tag is tut. If it is the only tag you need, set:

server.tags tut

For multiple tags, use comma-separated values in server.tags. The server browser displays up to four tags at a time.

Do not specify multiple tags from the same documented group. Those tags are mutually exclusive; the browser displays only one, and the server may not appear correctly in tag-specific searches.

Verify the configuration

Confirm that server.tutorialEnabled is true, that server.tags contains tut, and that Tutorial Island works with the server's active mods and gameplay configuration.