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Specimen recordcat. no. 3,450NAfirst seen 7 Oct 2026

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows

Online NA 66.51.99.56:28045 checked 11m ago

2x biweekly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 100
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 4
Rank
#3,450
top 15% · #572 in NA
Last wipe
7d ago
biweekly schedule
Next wipe
6d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608000:0009:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

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 7 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 31% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

from its schedule tag

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

15.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

6d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
20d 20h
Thu 19 Nov, 19:44 UTC
34d 19h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctWed 7 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 34 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 19:44 UTC7d ago 4 – running 0
Wed 7 Oct, 15:10 UTC22d ago 5 halved by day 2 15.2 days 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows at #3,450, or #572 in North America, inside the top 15% of all ranked servers.

How busy is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

Of its 100 slots, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is using 0 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 4. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 03:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts5 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 5 players; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks the server wipes; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

These Rust Population lists include The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows: 2x Rust servers: the live count, Modded Rust servers, counted and North American Rust servers. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Gather rate: 2x.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 4 players. 34 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 2 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

Its tag sets the prediction: too few of The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Counted from 7 days 3 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. The tags carry an every-two-weeks wipe schedule.

Settings

Which map does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows run?

The map on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is procedural, made by the game at size 4,000 from seed 1337. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. You will see the map named Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows advertises a 2x gather rate in its title. The group limit is 5 players. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 12 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities peaked at 95,087, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,129 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is online. About 15 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 7 October 2026.

Where is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows located?

With its NA tag, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows places itself in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 66.51.99.56:28045.

Getting in

How do I join The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 66.51.99.56:28045; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. For more, visit its website: https://linktr.ee/THBcommunity.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts5,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players 100 slots are available.
ts5
Group limit Teams can have no more than 5 players.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly Every two weeks the server wipes.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.