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Application settings and storage

The gear in the titlebar opens the app’s own settings: what Crucible Local Server has installed on your disk, and the four options that change how it behaves.

The Crucible Local Server settings panel, showing disk usage for server installs, maps, saves, backups, SteamCMD, logs and notes, and the toggles for the notes journal, keeping the app in the tray, updating server files on start, and running multiple servers at once

Storage

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Every folder the app has written, with its size, an Open button, and a Delete where it is safe to delete:

  • Server installs: the Rust dedicated server files, the big one (about 6 GB per install).
  • Maps library, Save library, Save backups, Downloaded mods, Logs.
  • SteamCMD: the app’s own toolchain, so it has no Delete.
  • Notes: your per-server notebooks. These live outside the app’s data folder on purpose, so uninstalling the app never takes your notes with it. There is no Delete here for the same reason.

An install cannot be deleted while a server that uses it is running, and removing one tells you which servers lose their world with it.

Keep running in the tray when closed

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Off by default: closing the window quits Crucible and stops your server.

The Rust dedicated server runs as a child of the app, so when Crucible exits, the server goes with it. Turn this on and closing the window leaves the app in the system tray instead, with the server still running. Quit from the tray icon to shut down cleanly.

A scheduled restart can only fire while Crucible is running, so an overnight restart needs this turned on.

Update server files on start

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On by default. When you start a server, the app checks whether the branch has a newer Rust build and installs the update first, so players never join an outdated server and get version-kicked. Routine updates only pull what changed.

Allow multiple servers running at once

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Off by default: one server at a time. Turn it on to run several together, for example a vanilla server and a modded one, or two different branches. Each server has its own ports, its own world and its own console.

Every running server costs RAM and CPU, and a Rust server is not cheap, so this is a deliberate opt-in rather than the default.

Keep a server log in Notes

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On by default. Adds a dated line to each server’s Server log page in Notes when you wipe, restore a backup, or change its map, branch or mod stack, so the history of a world is written down without you doing it.

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