Legal
The short version: the maps you make are yours, including for commercial use, and Creator is not a Facepunch product.
Your maps are yours
Section titled “Your maps are yours”What you build in Creator belongs to you. Keep it, share it, sell it, run it on a server that charges for access. Creator claims no ownership and no license over the maps, prefabs or images you make with it.
Not affiliated with Facepunch
Section titled “Not affiliated with Facepunch”Creator is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Facepunch Studios. Rust is a trademark of Facepunch Studios and is used here descriptively, to say what this editor is for.
Creator does not modify Rust, does not redistribute any of Facepunch’s files, and reads your installed copy of the game to render your map. It has no connection to the game client at runtime and is not a mod, a cheat or a client modification.
The license agreement
Section titled “The license agreement”Creator ships with its end user license agreement as EULA.txt, beside the executable, and that file
is the agreement you accept when you use the software. Read the copy that shipped with your build:
it is the authoritative text, and this page will reproduce it here once the final wording is settled.
You accept the Crucible license agreement in the Crucible launcher before it opens Creator. You can read it any time in the launcher under Settings, License agreement, View. When the launcher has recorded that you accepted its current agreement, Creator does not show an agreement window.
Creator asks before you can use it, however you start it: from the launcher, from a shortcut, by opening a map or by generating one from the command line. A map or a world you asked for waits until you choose ACCEPT, and DECLINE AND QUIT closes Creator before anything opens. In a launcher install, when the launcher’s agreement has changed since you accepted it, Creator shows that new agreement, and accepting it in Creator records it for the launcher as well, so you are asked once.
Third-party components
Section titled “Third-party components”Creator includes third-party components under their own licenses (MIT, BSD 2-Clause and 3-Clause,
Apache 2.0, the Unicode License, the SIL Open Font License and the Unity Companion License). Every one of them is
listed with its full license text in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt, which ships beside the executable.
Where a third-party license conflicts with Creator’s own agreement, the third-party license governs
its own component.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”Creator sends no telemetry. It makes no analytics call and collects no usage data. Creator needs an active Crucible license. Nothing leaves your PC unless you pair a relay, click a documentation link, or press SEND in SEND FEEDBACK or SEND REPORT in HELP. The support bundle you can build from the HELP menu is written to your own Desktop and leaves it only when you send it: you make it, you read it, and you decide whether to send it. Personal details are removed from it. Your data is the full account of what is stored, what leaves your PC and how to delete all of it. See also Report a bug.