Admin trolling with the new animals in Rust in 2026 and what it reveals about the update

Video: Controlling The NEW Animals In Rust - Admin Trolling

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Oct 30, 2026 · based on the channel Enardo

Admin trolling in Rust means using admin tools on a live server to spawn, control and puppeteer creatures and characters for the amusement of the admin and the confusion of the players. In Enardo's video with LucasBattle, that toolkit is pointed at the new animal models added to the game, turning cows, turtles, crabs and frogs into moving props on a one grid random farming server and a 10x server. Displate is running a sale alongside the video: grab 1 displate for 22% off, 2 for 27% off, or 3+ for 33% off.

What the new animals in Rust actually include

The animal update expands the passive wildlife pool well beyond the old bears, wolves, pigs and chickens, and the video walks through most of the new roster in a single session. The creatures that show up or get spawned in include:

1. Cows and bulls, which became the main comedy vehicle of the video.
2. Chickens, pigs and boars, the classic farm animals that still anchor early-game food runs.
3. Sheep and horses, the larger passive animals players usually chase for cloth and transport.
4. Wolves and bears, the predators that make a naked farm run dangerous.
5. Sharks, the water threat that punishes swimming between islands.
6. Squirrels and frogs, small ambient wildlife that is easy to overlook.
7. Turtles and crabs, the slow-moving creatures that became the strangest pranks of the session.

Because the models are new, players in the video repeatedly fail to recognise what they are looking at, which is exactly the gap the admin trolling exploits. A farmer expecting a pig does not immediately process a crab the size of a player, and that half-second of confusion is the whole joke.

How the animal control pranks work on a live server

Admin animal control works by taking a spawned creature and driving it like a puppet, so it walks, follows and stares at players instead of wandering on its own AI. The practical setup in the video is straightforward:

• Enardo and LucasBattle run the session on Enardo's own one grid random farming server and on a 10x server, where players are already spread out and farming.
• Creatures are spawned near a target rather than on top of them, so the animal appears to have wandered in naturally.
• The admin then takes direct control and walks the animal toward the player, stops it at a set distance, and holds it there.
• Voice chat does the rest: the animal is given a personality, a name and a line of dialogue, and the player has to decide whether to shoot, run or play along.

The most effective version is the weeping angel cow, a reference to the statue monsters that only move when nobody is watching. A cow that freezes in place while you look at it and creeps closer the moment you turn around is far more unsettling than a straight jumpscare, because the player keeps second-guessing their own screen. The same trick works on scarecrows and other static props, which is why viewers immediately asked for it to be built into the game properly.

The cow swarm and other gags that landed

The funniest sequence in the video is a full herd of ten cows spawned around a single player, which viewers singled out as the highlight. The escalation matters more than the number: the first cow is strange, the third is a pattern, and by the tenth the victim is surrounded by identical faces and has no idea what the rules are anymore.

Other gags that landed in the session:

• A crab scaled up to roughly double player size, which is enough to read as a boss encounter rather than wildlife.
• A turtle that is given a name and a full conversation through voice chat, to the point where the player starts answering it back.
• A frog spawned specifically to tease a French-speaking player, leaning on the national stereotype for the punchline.
• Cows placed as silent observers during fights, so players turn around mid-fight to find a herd watching them.

The common thread is that none of it damages a base or steals loot. The prank is psychological, and that is why it reads as trolling rather than griefing: nobody loses progress, they just lose their grip on what is normal on the server.

Typical questions and doubts from players

A recurring reaction is that spawning dozens of animals at once is too much and kills the joke, and the criticism is fair. A single controlled cow that follows a player across a field is creepier than a wall of twenty, because the player has room to notice something is wrong. Moderation in numbers, then, is the main improvement to make on a repeat run.

Another common question is whether this kind of session is possible on official servers. It is not: animal control requires admin privileges, so it only exists on community servers where the owner has enabled it, which is why Enardo runs the gags on his own servers. Players watching from outside sometimes ask how to join, and the answer is the server list at https://enardo.gg rather than any official Rust server.

A third doubt is whether the new animals are actually in the base game or just spawned props. The models are part of the game's wildlife roster, but the behaviour in the video, walking in circles, staring, following a specific player, is admin-driven and will not happen on a normal server. Players who want the weeping angel experience legitimately will have to wait for a mod or an official feature.

Finally, viewers who have never played Rust often ask whether the game is worth starting for content like this. The honest answer is that the trolling is the surface layer; the underlying game is a survival loop of hunger, thirst, cold, base building and PvP, and the animals are just one part of it. The videos are a good preview of the humour, not of the difficulty curve.

Where to find the servers, merch and community links

Everything Enardo references in the video is collected in one place, and the links are worth bookmarking if you want to play on the same servers or follow the next admin session.

• Servers: https://enardo.gg
• Merch: https://enardo.store
• Discord: https://discord.gg/enardo
• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/enardo

The verdict on Rust animal admin trolling

The animal update gives admins a much better toy box than the old bear-and-wolf roster, because the new models are unfamiliar enough that players genuinely hesitate before reacting. Enardo and LucasBattle get the most out of that hesitation with the weeping angel cow and the ten-cow surround, and the restraint-free crab scaling shows how far the tools can be pushed. The session is a comedy video first and a showcase of the new wildlife second, and it works on both counts. If you want to see the full run, the breakdown comes from Enardo's channel, and if you are picking up a displate anyway, use the sale link for 22% off one, 27% off two or 33% off three or more.

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