Rust Player Count
34,531 playing now

OnlineNA191.101.233.112:28015checked 9m ago

The Crucible |US|PvE

monthly wipes vanillaoxidepve
Players now 1/ 120 1% full
7-day average 3 peak 10
Rank #2,079 top 9% · #348 in NA
Last wipe 12d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 22d 12h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
02.557.51007:0016:0001:0011:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608007:0016:0001:0011:0020:0005:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 9% of all ranked servers, top 19% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

Wipe-day peak 11 players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

22d 12hThu 5 Nov, 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.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW12d 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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
[US] RustEZ Pure PvE | Low Decay | No Killing | No RaidingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 52 on average 44/ 200
ABYSS | PvE | US | Vanilla | Noob FriendlyNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 39 on average 18/ 200
MadRust PVE - Get AchievementsNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 21 on average 8/ 50
Stillwater Shores PVE | PVPNA · groups of 30+ · monthly · 21 on average 14/ 100
Rusty Spoons PvE | no raiding / stealing / killingNA · groups of 10+ · monthly · 19 on average 11/ 100
[US] PureRust | PvE | No Decay | No Killing | No RaidingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 14 on average 4/ 150

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does The Crucible |US|PvE use?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Crucible |US|PvE. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs pve, no combat against other players. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. Plugins: Oxide. Vanilla is its own description: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What is the map on The Crucible |US|PvE?

The Crucible |US|PvE runs a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 863951188, generated by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page. You can see the map name here: Custom Map.

Tags, lists and filters

Where can The Crucible |US|PvE be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include The Crucible |US|PvE: Best Rust PvE servers, Rust PvE servers, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

How should you interpret the tags on The Crucible |US|PvE?

For the game's server browser, The Crucible |US|PvE publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp120 (Max players): 120 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules; ^p (PvE): No player-versus-player combat: the environment provides the danger; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): It appears under North America when browsing servers. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How full is The Crucible |US|PvE?

With 120 slots, The Crucible |US|PvE has 1 players at the moment. With a peak of 10, the average over seven days is 3 players. The highest average in the last 48 hours was 9 players at 00:00 UTC.

Where does The Crucible |US|PvE sit in the rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, The Crucible |US|PvE is #2,079 overall, #348 in North America, and in the top 9% of all ranked servers.

About the server

What is the uptime and reliability of The Crucible |US|PvE?

Right now, The Crucible |US|PvE is up. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 10 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What Rust version is used on The Crucible |US|PvE?

On Linux, The Crucible |US|PvE runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does The Crucible |US|PvE serve?

In North America, The Crucible |US|PvE lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 191.101.233.112:28015.

What is the performance like on The Crucible |US|PvE?

The server ran at an average of 42 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 16. Up to 106,659 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 2,680 MB of memory. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

What should you expect on The Crucible |US|PvE during a wipe?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 11 players. 7 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.

When does The Crucible |US|PvE wipe?

Wipes happen once a month on The Crucible |US|PvE, along with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 12 days 12 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Join the server

What is the process to join The Crucible |US|PvE?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 191.101.233.112:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server. For more, visit its website at https://discord.com/invite/6J6jqbKyns.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,NA,^p,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp120
Max players 120 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No player-versus-player combat: the environment provides the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.

Region

NA
North America It appears under North America when browsing servers.

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.