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RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests

Online NA 64.20.51.155:28080 checked 8m ago

teams off biweekly wipes moddedcarbonpvehardcore
Sp1 · players now 4/ 50
8% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTCpeak 6°
Tue 01:00flare: a wipe in that hourWed 23:00
5
7-day average
peak 13
#1,428
rank
top 6% · #212 in NA
13d ago
last wipe
biweekly schedule
7d 18h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 8m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0246801:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 6% of all ranked servers, top 11% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
21
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

Coming wipes

7d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
14d 16h
Thu 12 Nov, 17:07 UTC
35d 18h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
42d 16h
Thu 10 Dec, 17:07 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 19, 9 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:07 UTC13d ago 19 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 21 halved by day 7 14 days 2
Thu 17 Sep, 17:11 UTC41d ago 24 halved by day 7 14 days 0

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 RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 21 players. 9 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. It fell below half by day 7 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests runs a wipe schedule of every 4 weeks on Thursday at 17:07 UTC. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. The world in play now was made 13 days 7 hours ago. A fortnightly wipe is listed in the tags.

Population

How busy is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

The current population of RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests is 4, against 50 slots. A seven-day average of 5 players, with a peak of 13. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 22:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.

How does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests rank against other Rust servers?

Top 6% of ranked servers and #212 in North America: that is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests at #1,428 for player hours over seven days.

Map and rules

Which map does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run?

A procedural map of size 4,800, generated by the game, runs on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests.

What are the rules and settings on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

A gather rate is not given in the name RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests. No group limit is published. The server runs hardcore, The hardest mode Facepunch offers. You can fight other players and raid their bases. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Carbon plugins are in use. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run?

The build on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Windows. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests online, and how reliable is it?

Right now RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests shows as online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 14 hours ago. It was up 144 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 86% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 14 September 2026.

Where is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests located?

The NA tag is how RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests lists itself in North America. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. 64.20.51.155:28080 is its address.

Does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run smoothly?

The last 48 hours brought an average of 58 server fps and a floor of 51. The world held as many as 149,062 entities, buildings and deployables included. At its peak it held 4,369 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Lists and filters

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

The Rust Heatmap lists that RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests fits are: Modded Rust servers, by live population, Best Rust PvE servers and North America server heatmap. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Hardcore; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Hardcore ^h, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests mean?

These are the tags RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmhardcore (Game mode): The ruleset is hardcore, the harsher one; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): This build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^b (Biweekly): The wipe interval is two weeks; ^h (Hardcore): The hardcore mode of Facepunch: survival is harsher, helpers fewer; ^p (PvE): The world provides the danger, since players do not fight each other; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

Connect

How do I join RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?

Enter client.connect 64.20.51.155:28080 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^b,^h,NA,^p,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode The ruleset is hardcore, the harsher one.
mp50
Max players The slot count is 50.
ts0
Group limit No teams here.
v2635
Protocol Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in.
cs168909
Build This build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking Standard game networking here, which is RakNet.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly The wipe interval is two weeks.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore The hardcore mode of Facepunch: survival is harsher, helpers fewer.

Gameplay

^p
PvE The world provides the danger, since players do not fight each other.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded.
^y
Carbon Plugins run through Carbon.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.