SCUM-RCON

A standard Source RCON server for SCUM dedicated servers. Run admin commands on your server from any Source-RCON-compatible client — mcrcon, rcon-cli, BattleMetrics, WebRcon, a custom Discord bot, your own tooling — and you don't need an admin character online in-game to do it.

Anything that speaks the Valve Source RCON protocol can talk to it. The download is a drop-in bundle that includes UE4SS, so there's nothing else to install.

Use at your own risk — no warranty, and no guarantee against future game updates breaking the mod or against bans.

Install

1. Download Win64.zip from the latest release.

2. Extract its contents — dwmapi.dll and the ue4ss folder — into your server's SCUM\Binaries\Win64\ directory.

3. Open ue4ss\Mods\scum_rcon\config.ini and set a real password — the listener refuses to start while it's still CHANGE_ME_BEFORE_USE.

   bind_address = 0.0.0.0
   port = 28015
   password = CHANGE_ME_BEFORE_USE   ; change this

4. Start the server. In ue4ss\UE4SS.log, look for the [SCUM-RCON] lines — they report the listener address (default 0.0.0.0:28015), or why it didn't start.

Full step-by-step instructions are in INSTALL.txt inside the download.

Don't expose the RCON port to untrusted networks without a strong password — Source RCON is unencrypted by design.

Use

Connect with any Source RCON client and send admin commands as plain text:

mcrcon -H <server-ip> -P 28015 -p <your-password> "Announce hello"

Examples:

SetTime 9
SendNotification 2 0 "Welcome to the server!" <steamid>
SendChat 4 "Bounty claimed: +500" <steamid>
SetGodMode true <steamid>
SpawnItem Apple 1 Location <steamid>

See USAGE.md for the full guide — the notification and chat-colour codes, which commands need a player's SteamID, the three spawn-location forms, and the common pitfalls.

🤝 Contributing & Collaboration

SCUM-RCON is free for everyone to use, and contributions are welcome — bug reports, feature requests, docs, and your own clients/panels/bots built against the RCON protocol. Fork and open a PR; no write access needed.

The core mod stays closed-source (RE-protection + Gamepires internals) — the what is open to build on, the how stays closed.

Want to collaborate more closely? Open a Collaboration request issue. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

Closed-source, free to use under the EULA in LICENSE: download and run on your own server for free; no selling, no modifying, no redistribution outside the official release channel. Running it is fine as long as your server complies with SCUM's own EULA. The bundled UE4SS keeps its own license (MIT). Not affiliated with Gamepires; SCUM is a trademark of Gamepires.

Bugs & questions

Open an issue here, or post in the Nexus Mods comments/bug section on the SCUM-RCON page.