Vanilla Server
Online 163.5.171.11:28025 checked 45m 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 59% of all ranked servers, and #567 of the quad servers (top 68%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 25 Oct, 00:01 UTC5d ago | – | – | running | 1 |
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
Player counts
How does Vanilla Server rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Vanilla Server at #13,049, within the top 59% of all ranked servers. It places #567 among servers of the quad kind.
How busy is Vanilla Server?
Vanilla Server holds 1 players at the moment, out of 1 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 1. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Vanilla Server mean?
What the game's server browser reads from Vanilla Server is this set of tags: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts4 (Group limit): You may team with up to 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Vanilla Server?
Vanilla Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed and PvE servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE and Softcore; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last week and it will show up.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Server?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Vanilla Server's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 5 days 1 hours ago.
Settings
Which map does Vanilla Server run?
The map on Vanilla Server is procedural, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Server?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Vanilla Server states none. 4 is the most a group can hold (quad). softcore is what it runs, Facepunch's lighter mode, where some loot is kept. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Vanilla Server run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Vanilla Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Is Vanilla Server online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Vanilla Server is online. It was up 1% of the time over the last 7 full days, 1 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 11 October 2026.
Where is Vanilla Server located?
No region is published by Vanilla Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 163.5.171.11:28025.
Getting in
How do I join Vanilla Server?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 163.5.171.11:28025. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. Expect a queue: it is full right now.