I have tried many different ways to get plugins installed i have put them .cs into a folder oxide/plugins they didn't seem to load. I put them into my server root dir that didn't work. I even tried to put them into the Hurtword_data/Plugins Directory and still nothing. what am I doing wrong? 

I suspect you do not actually have Oxide installed. How are you checking if they are installed?

I typed into the server console "Oxide.reload Admintools" for example. it says no plugin found with that name. it also says on the cmd that the server is running Oxide.Hurtworld 2.0.3887

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I'm hosting this on my home server btw and when i installed the .zip it didn't create an oxide/plugins folder 

Plugin names are case-sensitive, so unless you installed a file named Admintools, then the name would be invalid. If the plugin filename is AdminTools, then you'd need to use oxide.load AdminTools, but plugins are automatically loaded by default unless that functionality is disabled by you.

I'd suggest checking your oxide/logs for errors too and that you are using a plugin that is cimpatible with the version of Hurtworld you are using. If you are running an itemv2 server, not all Hurtworld plugins are updated for it.

If the oxide/plugins folder was not created, I suspect there was an error with the install.

right. i get the case sensitive part. so should i try and to create the oxide folder or Oxide? it didn't seem to create automaticly for me 

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ok i'll try and resinstall and try again 

If Oxide is installed properly, it would be creating it automatically. I'd suggest checking your logs for errors.

yeah i figured out the problem i think i was running the host.bat as admin and for some reason didn't install the oxide folder just installed 3 times to confirm.

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also just copyed the plugins over while server was running and the cmd window showed them immediately. thanks for the help anyways.

The folder would be created where the admin user runs the file from, which I believe would normally be C:\Windows\System32 or something, so the folder would be created, just not where you would expect it. The server should always be ran under the current user.