Solo/Duo PvP Fridays

What makes Heatline PvP Fridays different

Weekly-wipe Rust servers are crowded; the good ones aren’t. The reason most fail isn’t queue times or gather rates — it’s pay-to-win shops, weak group-limit enforcement, and weekend-only admin coverage. PvP Fridays exists because we wanted a no-P2W 2x solo/duo server we’d actually play on ourselves.

No Pay-to-Win

Nothing on the shop gives you gear, loot, raid power, or wipe-week advantage. VIP is quality-of-life only — gradient name, queue skip, container sorting, /skinbox. No gear kits, no loot boxes, no resource handouts. The leaderboard reflects who actually plays better.

Friday wipes — same time every week

Map wipe every Friday at 20:00 Europe/Berlin (CEST). Force Wipe is always the first Thursday of the month — that’s when the full wipe runs (map + blueprints). Because the map already wiped a day earlier, the Friday right after Force Wipe is always skipped, and the normal weekly cadence resumes the following Friday. So roughly once a month, that one Friday wipe doesn’t happen — every other Friday does. The schedule is fixed and announced in Discord.

2x rates, vanilla+ feel

Gather (wood, stone, sulfur, components, scrap) and loot — including Excavator and Quarries — are 2x. Smelting is faster, with a furnace sorter to keep your refinery humming. Upkeep is 50% — keep your base alive without farming stone and metal all wipe. Electric blueprints are unlocked from the start, and blueprints are shared across your team. Minicopters spawn on the road for fast rotation.

What stays vanilla: stack size, crafting times, decay, building cost, hit-tolerance, raid mechanics, monument loot composition. The point is to compress the wipe arc and remove busywork — without breaking the core feel of Rust fights.

Solo/Duo, strictly enforced

The group limit is two. The TC authorization and team UI are capped at 2 — that’s the soft side. Admins also actively watch for shared bags, base-to-base bridging, shared buildings, and coordinated raids. Loose alliances and “we’re just sharing roof rights” excuses get the entire group banned for the wipe. The whole point of solo/duo is that two-mans don’t have to fight zergs to keep their loot.

Friendly neighbours are fine. A mutual non-aggression agreement — you and a nearby base both agree not to fight each other — is totally allowed; it’s the kind of deal solo/duo players make all the time. What’s not allowed is acting like a larger group: sharing TCs, bags or buildings, raiding together, or coordinating fights against a third party. Stay neighbourly, don’t team.

Stats, leaderboards, accountability

Type /stats in-game for a detailed live leaderboard — resources farmed, rockets / satchels / explosives fired, kills, deaths, playtime, and more, all per player and persistent across the wipe. Useful for tracking your own wipe arc and seeing who’s actually grinding. The site-wide Heatline leaderboard is Minigames-only; on Fridays, the leaderboard lives in-game via /stats. Same active-admin coverage either way.

Hardware and admins

Dedicated high-end EU machine. Stable performance, consistent server FPS at peak population. Active admins on Discord — ticket response averages under one hour. The connect address is client.connect fridays.heatline.gg — paste it in F1 on Friday evening and you’re in.