[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1
Online OC 158.140.244.251:28015 checked 8m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 7% of all ranked servers, top 20% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 5 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:17 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours over the last seven days [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is #1,623, #40 in Oceania, placing it in the top 7% of ranked servers.
How busy is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
The count reads 4 players on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1, which has 75 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 4 players and reached a peak of 11. Look at the last 48 hours and 09:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 9 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 mean?
What the game's server browser reads from [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania. 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 [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
On Rust Population, [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is filed under these lists: Oceania Rust servers, counted, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 4 players. Peak came 5 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
Once a month [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 wipes, and that is with the force wipe. 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 9 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 [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 run?
The map on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is procedural, made by the game at size 4,250 from seed 420730549. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
No gather rate appears in the name of [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. Oxide plugins are in use here. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 run smoothly?
It ran at 51 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 25. Entities peaked at 106,159, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,653 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 online, and how reliable is it?
[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 located?
With its OC tag, [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 places itself in Oceania. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 158.140.244.251:28015.
How to join
How do I join [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 158.140.244.251:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/27dvKFJXGX.