Tap join on your phone. At home, your PC launches Rust, sits through the queue and holds your slot until you sit down. Built for wipe day.
How it works
No magic and no tricks. One small program on your PC, one website on your phone, and the game's own queue doing what it always does.
Download one small file onto your gaming PC and double-click it. It shows a six character code. Type that code into the website on your phone and the two are paired. The agent then sits in your system tray, connected out to QueueUp, waiting. There is nothing to configure and no router settings to change.
Search any Rust server by name, save your regulars, and tap Join from wherever you are. The command reaches your PC through a connection your PC opened itself, so there is no router setup and no port forwarding, ever.
It starts Rust through Steam, pointed at your server. Rust joins the queue the way it always does. The agent follows progress by reading the game's own log file, and if Rust crashes mid queue it relaunches and rejoins on its own.
Every step shows up as it happens: launching, connecting, in the queue, loading, you are in. If Rust crashes or the PC reboots it starts again on its own. The slot is held until you get there.
Nothing ever connects in to your PC. It makes one outbound connection and holds it open, like a chat app.
Wipe day
Set the join for a few minutes before the announced wipe. When the server goes down for its restart, QueueUp queries it directly, every couple of seconds, and connects the moment it answers again. Faster than anyone mashing refresh in the server browser. Force wipe also ships a game update, so Steam has gigabytes to download before anyone can play: QueueUp waits that out and shows you the progress, then connects. If Windows forces a reboot mid queue, the job survives that too.
Fair play
Rust runs Easy Anti-Cheat, and QueueUp is built to stay far away from it. The agent is allowed to do exactly four things, and all four are things you could do yourself with a mouse.
The same steam link a browser bookmark would use. Nothing more.
A text file Rust writes anyway. That is how it follows your join, step by step.
So it can relaunch after a crash. It never touches the process.
The cancel button on your phone, nothing else.
No memory reading, no injection, no simulated keys or clicks, no touching game files. QueueUp never asks for your Steam password and has no way to use it. In game, everything is still you.
Price
Less than the cost of losing one wipe night to a queue you were not even home for.
QueueUp is in beta and completely free while it is. In return, tell us how your joins went: there is a feedback link on every page, and one click on the PC sends us a problem report. When the beta ends it will be £4.99 a month, and nobody is charged without choosing to subscribe.
Questions
QueueUp does nothing a ban system looks for. It starts the game through Steam, reads a log file, and that is the whole relationship. The queue it waits in is Rust's own queue, joined the normal way. It never plays, moves, or acts in game for you.
Yes. QueueUp assumes an always on PC: no sleep, no hibernate. It does not wake sleeping machines. What it does handle is restarts: if Windows forces an update reboot mid queue, the agent starts back up, reconnects and resumes the join on its own.
No, never. Steam stays signed in on your own PC exactly as it is now. QueueUp has no field to type a Steam password into.
Any Rust server you can see in the server browser, official or community. You search by name and QueueUp keeps track of the address, even when a server moves between wipes.
About two minutes. On your gaming PC, download the QueueUp agent from your dashboard and double-click it. It shows a code, you type that code into the website, and the PC is linked. Windows will warn that it does not recognise the app, because it is not code signed yet: choose More info, then Run anyway. After that, the only other things are settings any always on gaming PC wants anyway: sleep off, and Steam set to start with Windows.
The agent is Windows only, because Rust is. You can control it from any phone, tablet or computer: the website works everywhere.