# 7 Things to Know About the New Animals in Rust and Admin Trolling How Rust's new animals work, how admins control them for trolling, and what players should expect on modded servers. Source: https://bxx3-lo-yspw-o6x.shop/7-things-to-know/ · based on the channel [Enardo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChEQqKMbTH3rxC3c34lH5ZQ) · Video: [Controlling The NEW Animals In Rust - Admin Trolling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9Cdf1cOKE) · 2026-10-30 ![7 Things to Know About the New Animals in Rust and Admin Trolling](https://bxx3-lo-yspw-o6x.shop/7-things-to-know/7-things-to-know.webp) ## Key takeaways - Rust now includes a wider animal roster: cows, bulls, pigs, chickens, sheep, wolves, bears, boars, horses, sharks, frogs, squirrels and turtles. - Admin trolling uses server powers to control and spawn animals, letting admins disguise themselves as wildlife and trick players. - Enardo and Lucas Battle ran the animal trolling on Enardo's one-grid random farming and 10x Rust servers. - The weeping angel trick freezes a model in place and moves it only when players look away, creating a horror effect. - Modded servers like Enardo's (enardo.gg) are where most admin trolling happens, not on official vanilla servers. Rust's new animals are a set of additional wildlife models added to the game, including cows, bulls, frogs, squirrels and turtles, and admins can take direct control of them on modded servers to prank players. In the video breakdown below, Enardo and Lucas Battle use those powers on a one-grid farming server and a 10x server to pose as livestock, chase farmers and stage horror-style scares. Anyone curious about cheap wall art can also grab a few Displates on sale, 1 for 22% off, 2 for 27% off and 3+ for 33% off, through [the Enardo Displate sale link](https://displate.com/l/enardo). ## What the new animals in Rust actually are The new animals are mostly passive wildlife that fills out the map's ecosystem and gives players more variety in food, hide and cloth sources. Rust's animal roster has grown well beyond the original bears, wolves, pigs, boars, chickens and horses, and the additions lean toward farm and swamp creatures rather than new predators. - **Cows and bulls** provide the largest meat and leather yields among the passive animals. - **Sheep** remain a reliable cloth source for early beds and clothing. - **Frogs and turtles** are small, low-value animals usually found near water. - **Squirrels** are tiny, fast and mostly a novelty. - **Sharks** stay in the ocean and threaten swimmers rather than land farmers. Because these animals are simple entities with basic movement logic, they are easy for server admins to spawn, rename and control, which is exactly what makes them useful for trolling. ## How admin control of animals works Admin animal control means a server moderator takes over an animal entity instead of their own character, moving it around the map and interacting with players through it. On a modded server the admin panel allows spawning, possessing and renaming entities, so a moderator can appear as a cow standing in a player's base or a turtle following someone through a forest. The mechanics that make this work: 1. The admin spawns or selects an existing animal entity. 2. They attach their camera and input to that entity, so it walks, runs and turns on command. 3. They can rename it, which is how a cow ends up with a player-style nameplate. 4. They can spawn multiples at once, which is how a field fills with a dozen identical animals. The result is confusing for players because the game gives no visual warning that an animal is player-controlled. A bear that walks in a straight line toward a base or a chicken that stops and stares is enough to make someone suspicious. ## Five ways the animal trolling played out Animal trolling works best when the prank escalates from subtle to absurd, and the session on Enardo's servers followed that pattern. The setups ranged from quiet weirdness to full chaos, and each one exploited a different player assumption. 1. **The disguised animal.** An admin-controlled animal wanders near a farmer, acts slightly off, then reveals itself. The joke lands because players trust wildlife to behave predictably. 2. **The staring contest.** A controlled animal stands still and faces a player, doing nothing. Players often attack it or run, which is the payoff. 3. **The herd.** Spawning a large group of the same animal, such as a stack of cows, turns a normal farming run into a surreal scene and produced one of the most-quoted moments of the video. 4. **The chase.** A normally passive animal like a pig or chicken pursues a player across open ground, which reads as a glitch before it reads as a prank. 5. **The weeping angel.** A model is frozen in place and only moves when nobody is looking at it, mimicking the statue monsters from horror fiction. Used with a cow or another large animal at night, it is genuinely unsettling. ## Why modded servers make this possible Admin trolling depends entirely on server permissions, which is why it happens on community and modded servers rather than official ones. Enardo runs his own servers, listed at https://enardo.gg, including a one-grid random farming setup and a 10x server, and those are the environments where the animal control took place. A one-grid server compresses the whole map into a single grid square, so players constantly run into each other and into admins. A 10x server multiplies gather and loot rates, so players spend less time grinding and more time interacting, which makes them easier to find and prank. On official vanilla servers, admins are bound by stricter rules and rarely interact with players directly, so the same tricks would be punished. ## Common questions and doubts from players Players watching this kind of content usually ask the same things: whether the animals are real content or a mod, whether this can happen to them, and how the trickery is pulled off without obvious tells. The short answers are that the animals are part of the game's wildlife roster, the control is an admin-only tool, and the tricks rely on players assuming wildlife is never a person. A frequent observation is that the amount of spawning matters. A single strange animal creates suspense; thirty identical cows create comedy. Pacing the escalation, letting players notice something is wrong before going all out, makes the prank land better than instant chaos. Another common point is that the model detail on the new animals, down to textures most players never inspect, is far higher than the joke requires. ## All the links from the video - Displate sale, 1 for 22% off, 2 for 27% off, 3+ for 33% off: https://displate.com/l/enardo - Enardo's servers: https://enardo.gg - Merch: https://enardo.store - Discord: https://discord.gg/enardo - Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/enardo ## The bottom line on Rust animal trolling Admin animal control turns Rust's most harmless wildlife into a pranking tool, and the new animals give admins far more variety to work with than bears and pigs alone. The best moments come from restraint and escalation rather than raw spawn counts, and the weeping angel setup shows how a simple frozen model can outperform any explosion. All of it depends on modded server permissions, so the average vanilla player will never encounter a cow with a grudge. The video breakdown above comes from Enardo, whose channel covers Rust admin trolling, trap bases and modded server events; if you want to support the work, check the [Displate sale through Enardo's link](https://displate.com/l/enardo). ## Questions & answers **Are the new animals in Rust official content or a mod?** They are part of the game's wildlife roster rather than a custom mod. The trolling itself uses admin tools on modded servers, but the animal models and their basic behaviour exist in the base game, which is why players encounter them on normal wipes too. **Can regular players control animals in Rust?** No. Possessing or spawning animals requires admin privileges on a server you run or moderate. Regular players can only kill animals for meat, hide and cloth, or avoid them, so a suspiciously behaved cow on an official server is almost certainly a bug rather than a person. **How does the weeping angel trick work?** An admin freezes an animal model in place and only moves it when players are not looking at it. Because Rust gives no indication that a creature is player-controlled, the statue appears to teleport between glances, which creates a horror effect that works especially well at night. **Why do admins spawn so many animals at once?** Volume turns a creepy moment into a comedy one. A single odd animal builds tension, while a large herd of identical cows or a swarm of frogs overwhelms the scene and makes the absurdity obvious, which is usually the reaction the prank is aiming for.