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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,777EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly

Online EU 148.251.54.69:28070 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
6/ 50
= 1 player
12% full
7-day average
3
peak 9
Rank
#1,777
top 8% · #693 in EU
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0246821:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, top 24% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

17
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 22h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 17, 2 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:58 UTC FW27d ago 17 – running 2

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. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly at #1,777, or #693 in Europe, inside the top 8% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

Of its 50 slots, [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly is using 6 right now. We counted an average of 3 players in the past week, with 9 at the busiest. Look at the last 48 hours and 19:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 7 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

On Rust Population, [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly is filed under these lists: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 17 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 2 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

The force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly takes, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 27 days 2 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly run?

[EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 936520888. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

Nothing in [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The server describes itself as vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 54 server fps, with a low of 6. Entities peaked at 141,386, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,779 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly is up and running at the moment. About 11 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly located?

By its EU tag, [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly says it is in Europe. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 148.251.54.69:28070 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Awesome as fk|Beginner Friendly|Low Upkeep|Monthly?

Either enter client.connect 148.251.54.69:28070 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/XS8E5B2MRJ.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is under Europe.

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.