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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,269habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

The Derps

Online 157.85.87.223:24183 checked 9m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#5,269
top 24%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5208:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 24% of all ranked servers. 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 11h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 2 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:27 UTC FW27d ago 4 – running 0

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

Player counts

How does The Derps rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, The Derps places at #5,269, within the top 24% of ranked servers.

How busy is The Derps?

Of its 10 slots, The Derps is using 0 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 13:00 UTC, when an average of 2 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on The Derps mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags The Derps publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): You can join up to 10 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 standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include The Derps?

The Derps appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on The Derps?

Averaged over recent wipes, 4 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 2 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on The Derps?

The force wipe is the only wipe The Derps takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Counted from 27 days 13 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does The Derps run?

The Derps uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 790806440. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on The Derps?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: The Derps states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does The Derps run?

On Linux, The Derps runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does The Derps run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 126 server fps, with a low of 65. Up to 70,074 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,176 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is The Derps online, and how reliable is it?

You will find The Derps online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is The Derps located?

No region is published by The Derps. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 157.85.87.223:24183.

How to join

How do I join The Derps?

Either enter client.connect 157.85.87.223:24183 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players You can join up to 10 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 standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

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.