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What is Crucible Local Server?

Crucible Local Server is a free Rust dedicated server manager for Windows. It runs a local Rust server through forms and buttons instead of .bat scripts, convars and SteamCMD by hand. The app installs the Rust dedicated server for you, starts and stops it behind a live console, and turns everything you used to hand-edit into a UI: server settings, maps, mods, admins, wipes and backups. It is the natural downstream of Crucible Heightmap, where a custom map you generate is one click from a running server.

What it does

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  • Installs and updates the Rust dedicated server through SteamCMD, inside the app, with live progress, the build id and the install size.
  • Manages a list of server configs and runs one server at a time, streaming the console live.
  • Configures server.cfg through a form with a raw preview, and ships presets for a creative test server, a vanilla survival server, or a custom map server.
  • Loads custom maps from a local .map file, a LAN host, or a hosted URL.
  • Installs Carbon or Oxide and manages plugins: enable, disable, delete, or install straight from a .cs URL.
  • Wipes the map, blueprints, or everything, behind a typed confirmation and an automatic pre-wipe backup, and restores from a backup list.
  • Includes a web-RCON console, a Test tab for live admin actions, and an Overview with live player, FPS and uptime stats.
  • Browses the server files in a confined in-app file browser and reveals folders in Explorer.

Who it is for

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  • Rust server admins who want to spin up, configure and wipe a server without hand-editing startup scripts.
  • Map makers who want to load a custom .map, then walk it in first person to test terrain, monuments and layout before shipping it.
  • Anyone testing mods or plugins on a private local server before touching a live one.

How it fits the Crucible tools

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Crucible Local Server is the testing and hosting half of a workflow that begins in Crucible Heightmap. You generate custom island terrain in Heightmap, export a Rust .map file, and hand it straight to a running server with the Send to Server handoff. The Crucible launcher delivers both apps, so they install, update and open from one window.

Get started

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