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

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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows, reached at 66.51.99.56:28045 and hosted in NA. At the last check it held 0 of 100 places, against a seven-day mean of 1 and a peak of 4¹. It ranks #3,231 of all servers, the top 15%, and #535 in NA. It last wiped 5d ago on a published biweekly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywords2x gather biweekly wipes modded oxide

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1Summary statistics

Plate 1: The server's own banner, as it publishes it. Table 1 gives its figures at the last check.

Table 1: The server at the last check, its week and its standing.

Measure	Value	Note
Players now	0/100	0% full
In the queue	0	no queue
Seven-day mean	1	peak 4, 48 h peak 3
Rank²	#3,231	top 15%; #535 in NA
Last wipe	5d ago	biweekly schedule
Next wipe³	7d 23h	Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCfw

2Population

Figure 1 follows the players on the server at three scales: every five minutes over two hours, the hourly mean and peak over 48 hours, and the daily mean and peak over 90 days. Dashed uprights mark its wipes.

AveragePeak

Figure 1: Players on the server, UTC: (a) every five minutes, from the Steam server list; (b) hourly mean and peak; (c) daily mean and peak.

3Performance

We query the server directly for its frame rate, entity count and memory⁴. Low frames per second and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag (Figure 2).

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Figure 2: 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 7 Oct.

4Rank

The server stands in the top 15% of all ranked servers, the top 29% in NA. Rank is on player hours over the last seven days, and 1 is best; Figure 3 draws it day by day.

RankRank in region

Figure 3: Daily rank, overall and in its region; the axis is inverted, so up is better.

5Wipes

5.1Schedule: from its schedule tag

The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.

Measure	Value	Note
Usual gap	15.2 days	between real wipes
Wipe-day peak	4	players, last three wipes
Crowd held	0%	else halves by day 2

Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.

When (UTC)	In	Kind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00	7d 23h	force wipefw
Thu 19 Nov, 19:44	22d 0h	its own schedule
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00	35d 23h	force wipefw

Thu 22 OctWed 7 Oct

Figure 4: The first 48 hours of its last wipes: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 34 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.

Wiped (UTC)	Peak	Crowd	Lasted	Before
Thu 22 Oct, 19:445d ago	4	–	running	0
Wed 7 Oct, 15:1021d ago	5	halved by day 2	15.2 d	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. Before: players just before it wiped. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

6Map and settings

Map of The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows — Figure 5: The map: Custom Map, size 4000, seed 1337.

Table 5: The server's published settings.

Address	`66.51.99.56:28045`
Region	NA
Max players	100
Group limit	5 max
Wipe schedule	biweekly
Last wipe	22 Oct 2026, 19:44 UTC
Hostname	–
First seen	7 Oct 2026
Map	Custom Map
Size	4000
Seed	1337

7Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are Rust servers in North America [2], double gather rust servers [3], modded server list with rates [4] and predicted wipe schedule [5].

Table 6: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

Server	Players
HollowServers.co 2x Solo/Duo/Trio \| JUST FULL WIPEDNA · groups of 6 · 2x · biweekly · 1 on average	1/100
WARBANDITS.GG 2X \|Solo/Duo/Trio/Quad/Max5\| JUST FULLWIPEDNA · groups of 5 · 2x · weekly · 133 on average	177/200
[US] Spoonkid Rust - 2x Saturdays \| 6 MAX \| Shared BPsNA · groups of 6 · 2x · weekly · 93 on average	2/75
[US] Spoonkid Rust - 2x Mondays \| 5 MAX \| Shared BPsNA · groups of 5 · 2x · weekly · 48 on average	24/75
Dusk till Dawn \| 2x \| Offline Protect \| 5% Upkeep \| No BP WipeNA · groups of 6 · 2x · monthly · 3 on average	3/100
Rusty Chicken \| US 2X \| Vanilla+ \| WIPED 10/22NA · groups of 5 · 2x · weekly · 1 on average	0/100

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1How well does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows run?

Over the past 48 hours, it ran at an average of 34 server fps, with a low of 5. The highest number of entities it carried was 96,812, comprising buildings, deployables and all other objects. The peak memory usage was 3,786 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2In which location is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows based?

The NA tag places The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows in North America, as it lists itself. Rust Statistics does not look up the machine's location; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 66.51.99.56:28045.

A.3How reliable is The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows, and is it currently online?

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is online at this time. It last restarted around 10 hours ago, according to its reported uptime. Its uptime over the last full days (7 days) was 100%, with 168 of 168 hours online. The first record of it by Rust Statistics dates to 7 October 2026.

A.4What is the Rust version for The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on the Linux operating system. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.

Wipe schedule

A.5On what cycle does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows wipe?

The record of The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows's wipes is too sparse to confirm the schedule, so the prediction is based on its tag. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe occurs, and that is when every Rust server, including this one, next wipes. 5 days 23 hours have passed since the current world was generated. The server's tags give a wipe schedule of every two weeks.

A.6What characterises wipe day on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 4 players. The crowd reached its maximum 34 hours after the latest wipe. For 0% of recent wipes, the population did not fall below half the peak before the next wipe. Otherwise, a fall below half took place by day 2.

Player count

A.7What is the rank of The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows among Rust servers?

On player hours over seven days The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows is #3,231, within the top 15% of all ranked servers; within North America it is #535.

A.8How would you characterise the player activity on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

On The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows, 0 of the 100 slots are occupied at present. The peak over seven days is 4, against an average of 1. Averaging 3 players, 03:00 UTC was the busiest hour of the past 48.

Tags and filters

A.9What is the meaning of the tags on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, in its standard form; mp100 (Max players): The slot count is 100; ts5 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 5; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes on a two-week cycle; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is altered by plugins or settings, so it is listed as Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it is filed under North America: these are the tags The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows publishes, and the server browser reads them. The tags also carry current players, queue length and world creation time, shown at the top of this page.

A.10Where can The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

Rust servers with a 2x gather rate, Modded Rust servers and North American server statistics are the Rust Statistics lists that The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows fits. It appears under the following 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 week; Gather rate: 2x.

Rules, settings, map

A.11Which settings and rules are in force on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows sets gather to 2x, as the server name indicates. A group holds at most 5 players. The mode is survival, which means the standard mode, in which you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are both permitted. The server browser lists it as Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running. The server has VAC on, Valve's anti-cheat.

A.12On which map does The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows take place?

Size 4,000 and seed 1337 define the procedural, game-generated map on The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows. Size and seed being equal, the map is the same, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page. The map is named Custom Map.

How to join

A.13How do you connect to The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max 5 | Biweekly | Raid Windows?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.56:28045. Alternatively, the Launch Rust and join control on this page launches the game via Steam and completes the connection. The website for this server is https://linktr.ee/THBcommunity.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts5,^o^z.

Table 7: The server's tags and their meanings.

Tag	Meaning
Game
`gmrust`	Game mode. Rust survival, in its standard form.
`mp100`	Max players. The slot count is 100.
`ts5`	Group limit. Teams are capped at 5.
`v2635`	Protocol. The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join.
`cs168909`	Build. This server runs game build 168909.
`ptrak`	Networking. Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer.
`$r?`	Region code. The region code is unset.
Wipe schedule
`^b`	Biweekly. It wipes on a two-week cycle.
Mods and access
`^o`	Oxide. The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
`^z`	Modded. The game is altered by plugins or settings, so it is listed as Modded.
Region
`NA`	North America. In the server browser it is filed 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.

Appendix CAbout this server, in its own words

The Hot Box | 2x PvP | Max Team 5 Map wipes: first Thursday of each month and two weeks later, at 3 PM Central. Permanent blueprints - no scheduled BP wipes. Custom HIGHPOST dispensary, weed system, dealer missions and custom events. Discord: discord.gg/thehotbox

References

[1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
[2]Rust Statistics. Rust servers in North America. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
[3]Rust Statistics. Double gather rust servers. ruststatistics.org/top-2x-rust-servers.
[4]Rust Statistics. Modded server list with rates. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
[5]Rust Statistics. Predicted wipe schedule. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.