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The Crucible |US|PvE

Online NA 191.101.233.112:28015 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes vanillaoxidepve
Sp1 · players now 1/ 120
1% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTCpeak 6°
Tue 14:00flare: a wipe in that hourThu 11:00
2
7-day average
peak 9
#2,462
rank
top 11% · #394 in NA
27d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
7d 5h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 12m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0246814:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608014:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 21% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

11
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 5h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 5h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02.557.510+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 11, 7 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW27d ago 11 – running 1

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on The Crucible |US|PvE?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 11 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 7 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on The Crucible |US|PvE?

Once a month, with the force wipe, The Crucible |US|PvE wipes. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as for every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 18 hours ago. A monthly wipe is what its tags declare.

Population

How busy is The Crucible |US|PvE?

Of 120 slots on The Crucible |US|PvE, 1 are in use right now. The average across the last seven days is 2 players; the peak reached 9. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 01:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

How does The Crucible |US|PvE rank against other Rust servers?

Top 11% of ranked servers and #394 in North America: that is The Crucible |US|PvE at #2,462 for player hours over seven days.

Settings and rules

Which map does The Crucible |US|PvE run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 863951188, generated by the game, runs on The Crucible |US|PvE. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map. The map is called Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on The Crucible |US|PvE?

A gather rate is not given in the name The Crucible |US|PvE. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. pve is the game mode, no combat against other players. You will find it under Community in the server browser; it is a community server. Oxide plugins run on this server. Vanilla is the server's own description: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: Valve's VAC is on.

About the server

Which version of Rust does The Crucible |US|PvE run?

The build on The Crucible |US|PvE is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Linux. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.

Is The Crucible |US|PvE online, and how reliable is it?

Online now: The Crucible |US|PvE. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 5 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.

Where is The Crucible |US|PvE located?

With its NA tag, The Crucible |US|PvE lists itself in North America. A server says where it is, and Rust Heatmap shows that. The machine's actual location is not looked up. To connect, use 191.101.233.112:28015.

Does The Crucible |US|PvE run smoothly?

The last 48 hours brought an average of 36 server fps and a floor of 3. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 107,469 entities. The highest memory use was 2,717 MB. Players feel lag when fps falls and the entity count climbs.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Crucible |US|PvE?

These Rust Heatmap lists include The Crucible |US|PvE: Best Rust community servers, Best Rust PvE servers, North America server heatmap and Vanilla Rust servers, busiest first. Filtering the list by Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly brings it up.

What do the server tags on The Crucible |US|PvE mean?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp120 (Max players): The slot count is 120; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team: the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^p (PvE): No player fighting here: the world is the danger; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it are the tags The Crucible |US|PvE publishes, and the server browser reads them. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.

Connect

How do I join The Crucible |US|PvE?

Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 191.101.233.112:28015. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. https://discord.com/invite/6J6jqbKyns is where its website is.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust form.
mp120
Max players The slot count is 120.
ts8
Group limit At most 8 per team: the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it.
cs168909
Build The game build here is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No player fighting here: the world is the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).

Region

NA
North America North America is where the server browser puts it.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.