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Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy

Online NA 108.204.142.211:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 400 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 2
Rank#4,287top 19% · #723 in NA
RegionNANA · group 32 max
Last wipe6d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5204:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

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

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers, top 39% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy: The 5x scene, live, Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts32 (Group limit): No team can exceed 32 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy sits at #4,287, inside the top 19% of ranked servers and at #723 in North America.

How many players are on Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy right now?

1 players are on Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 1 players. Look at 11:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.

About the server

Is Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 19 hours ago. The last 3 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 71 out of 72 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 25 October 2026.

Does Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 61, and it never went below 42. Entities reached a maximum of 216,467: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 8,523 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy located?

In North America, Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 108.204.142.211:28015.

Which Rust version is Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy?

From the force wipe comes the estimate for Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy's next wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 15 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy run?

A procedural map of 6,000 with seed 618188991 is what Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy?

Going by its name, Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy runs 5x gather. Teams can reach 32 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Knucklehead Rust | 5X | PvP | Clans | Economy?

Enter client.connect 108.204.142.211:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://www.knuckleheadservers.com/rust.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts32,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts32
Group limit No team can exceed 32 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits 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.