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What's new at Haven Collective: autumn 2026 roundup

It has been a busy autumn. Haven started as a single Rust server and a brand-new website in early September. Two months later it is Haven Collective, with five servers across three games and one community behind them. If you have been away, or you have just found us, here is everything that has changed, in order, and what it means for you.

September: a home on the web

4 September: the website goes live

Haven got a proper home at havencollective.co.uk. From day one the site showed live server status, with players online, the map, uptime and wipe timers, pulled straight from the server rather than typed in by hand.

19 September: support tickets on the website

You can open a ticket straight from the support page. Use one for ban appeals, rule-break reports, items lost to bugs, or a purchase that has not arrived. When you send it you get a reference code, which you can paste into the Check a ticket box to read replies and answer them. Include the server, the time and any names or Steam IDs, and a clip or screenshot if you have one.

30 September: Rust PvP moves to weekly wipes

The PvP server moved from wiping every other week to wiping every Thursday at 7pm UK time. More fresh starts means a slow week or a bad raid never costs you for long. Everything else stayed the same: 2x gather and stacks, fast smelting and crafting, shared blueprints, and quads maximum with no allies. Our article on how wipes work in Rust explains the full cycle, including Facepunch's monthly forced wipe.

October: new hardware, new name, new games

1 October: how a week works, and why four

Two posts explained the thinking behind the server. How a week on Haven works covers the weekly rhythm, from Thursday's wipe to the leaderboard payouts. Why Haven caps groups at four explains the group limit that defines the PvP server.

3 October: a new server host in London

Rust PvP moved to new hardware in London. The address stayed the same, play.havencollective.co.uk:25169, and so did the settings, rules and wipe day. Website accounts, Points and purchases were untouched, because they live on this site rather than on the game server. The move came with a fresh map, and the wipe leaderboards were settled and paid at the move so nobody lost out.

12 October: Haven becomes Haven Collective

With more games on the way, the name changed to match. Haven is now Haven Collective. What changed:

  • The website is havencollective.co.uk. Old rusthaven.co.uk links forward here.
  • The Rust PvP address is play.havencollective.co.uk:25169.
  • The Discord is discord.gg/havencollective. When you join you pick the games you play, and only get pinged for those. Every game has its own chat and info channels.
  • Every game has its own hub on this site, with how to join, its rules and its news. Find them under Games in the menu.

What did not change: the same three people run it, Em, nottzlad565 and Shadz, and the rules apply the same way to everyone, on every server.

12 October: Palworld and 7 Days to Die open

Two new games joined Rust on the same day.

  • Palworld is a relaxed PvE co-op world with 3x EXP, gathering and enemy drops, 1.5x capture rate and Pal work speed, half hunger and weight, and up to 20 Pals per base. It works on PC, PS5, Xbox and Mac with no mods. Find it under Community Servers by searching Haven Collective.
  • 7 Days to Die opened as Safe Haven, a modded PvE co-op survival server on a fresh 6K random world. Because it runs mods it is for PC players on Steam only, with no crossplay, and Easy Anti-Cheat is on.

12 October: live player counts everywhere

You can now see how busy every server is before you launch a game. Each game tile on the home page and each game page show whether the server is online and how many players are on, and the Rust pages show the next wipe date. In Discord, each game has a locked voice channel whose name is its live player count. The counts refresh about every five minutes.

Our Rust servers today

Alongside Rust PvP, Haven Collective now runs two more Rust servers:

  • Rust PvE: the 2x pace without the raiding. Player damage is off, and the threat comes from zombies, bosses, raidable bases and custom events. It wipes on the first Thursday of the month. Connect with client.connect pve.havencollective.co.uk:23780.
  • Rust Console: Haven 2x on PS5 and Xbox, with crossplay between the two, 2x gather, loot and stacks, tier 1 blueprints, instant recycling, fast nights and quads maximum with no allies. It wipes every other Thursday.

Not sure which to play? Our Rust PvE vs PvP comparison covers all three.

Late October: a refreshed website and a new Guides section

This month the website itself has had a refresh, with new animated page designs across the site.

We have also started a Guides section with longer, practical articles for every game we run:

More guides will follow. If there is something you would like us to write about, tell us in Discord.

What has stayed the same

Through all of this, the things that matter most have not moved:

  • Quads maximum, no allies on Rust PvP and Console.
  • One set of rules, applied the same way to everyone, including people who have paid.
  • Admins who play, on the servers as well as in Discord.
  • Your account and Points carry across wipes and across games.

Have your say

Rates, events and plugins can change if something is not fun, and wipe timing can move if enough people want it to. The best place to tell us is our Discord. For anything that needs a record, open a support ticket. See you on the servers.

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