Live 60,803 players 11,697 servers online 115 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows Onlineright now
Celebrity profile · NA

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

Online NA 66.51.99.56:28045 checked 8m ago

2x biweekly wipes moddedoxide
Get on the guest list

Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#3,223top 14% · #535 in NA
RegionNANA · group 5 max
Last wipe5d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608012:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k7 Oct11 Oct15 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 14% of all ranked servers, top 29% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

from its schedule tag

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 7h. 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

8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
22d 8hThu 19 Nov, 19:44 UTC
36d 7hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 19:44 UTC5d ago 4 – running 0
Wed 7 Oct, 15:10 UTC20d 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.

You might also like

Similar servers

The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

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

You'll find The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it 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 week; Gather rate: 2x.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts5 (Group limit): Teams cap at 5 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes on a two-week cycle; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

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

For the last seven days of player hours, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows sits at #3,223, inside the top 14% of ranked servers and at #535 in North America.

How many players are on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows right now?

0 players are on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. Look at 03:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 3 players on average.

About the server

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

As of now, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 7 October 2026.

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

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 36, with 5 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 96,812: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,786 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

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 lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.56:28045.

Which Rust version is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 4 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 34 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.

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

The prediction follows its tag, since too few of The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 5 days 15 hours. A wipe every two weeks is what its tags promise.

The rules

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

A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1337 is what The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

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

Going by its name, The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows runs 2x gather. Teams can reach 5 players. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

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

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.56:28045. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://linktr.ee/THBcommunity.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players Slots: 100.
ts5
Group limit Teams cap at 5 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly It wipes on a two-week cycle.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.