I set up a rust server yesterday, now the bat took me some time to get right but when i felt happy with the launch of it i progressed to installing oxide. I installed correctly and verified that the files had been moved, when i now launch my server it doesnt even try and load oxide, and oxide.version responds with not found :/ Do i need to add parameters to my bat file for oxide to be loaded aswell?

Oxide runs automatically, nothing special for the bat file. Are there oxide.*.dll files in your Managed directory?

yes core/csharp.dll/mysql.dll/refrences.dll/rust.dll/sqlite.dll/unity.dll

Any error logs? What OS?

its win 10, i also had problems connecting to it so i added +server.ip to my bat and now it says Couldnt create server on port *** so now it doesnt even start the server

Maybe post your log file here?

"Couldn't create server on port" is from Rust, it means you are running another server process on that port (check Task Manager).

As far as Oxide goes, it starts automatically and you'd visually see a difference. If you do not see any indication of it, it isn't installed. Make sure you aren't running any script that updates the server again with Steam each start.