Players
RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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
Top 6% of all ranked servers, top 11% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 19, 9 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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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Quick answers
About the server
Is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests online, and how reliable is it?
RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests is up as you read this. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 17 hours ago. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 167 of 168 hours, or 99% of the time. Rust Charts has tracked it since 14 September 2026.
Where is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests located?
RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests gives its location as North America, using the NA tag. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. Connect at 64.20.51.155:28080.
Which version of Rust does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run smoothly?
Never under 48, and 57 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 149,185 entities. Its memory climbed as high as 4,369 MB. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Who is on
How busy is RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
On RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests, 3 players are in and 50 slots are the ceiling. Seven-day figures: 5 players on average and 13 at the peak. Over the past 48 hours, 22:00 UTC drew the most, at 5 players on average.
How does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests at #1,441, top 6% of ranked servers, and #214 in North America.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 21 players. 9 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Half the peak was the floor until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 7 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
Wipes on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests come 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, and that is its next wipe. 13 days 10 hours is how long ago its current world was made. A wipe every two weeks is published in its tags.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
No gather rate appears in the name RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests. There is no published group limit. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most difficult mode. You can fight and raid other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded. You will find Carbon plugins running. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests run?
A procedural map of size 4,800, generated by the game, is what RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests runs.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
The Rust Charts lists that carry RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests are: Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers and Region: North America. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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 makes public, and the server browser reads them: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset is in play: hardcore; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what runs here; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes once a fortnight; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch: harsher survival, fewer helpers; ^p (PvE): This is PvE: the world is the danger, not other players; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server's plugin framework is Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser files this one under North America. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
Getting in
How do I join RustNK - Custom Hardcore PvE, NPCs, Events & Quests?
Enter client.connect 64.20.51.155:28080 in the console, which F1 opens once Rust is running. Launch Rust and join on this page is the other way: Rust opens through Steam and connects you.
