The Unknown PVE
Offline NA 167.160.93.165:28025 checked 3h 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 11% of all ranked servers, top 21% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Sunday 1 November, 16:00 UTC, in 4d 16h. Its biweekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 5 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 Oct, 16:00 UTC9d ago | 6 | – | running | 2 |
| Thu 15 Oct, 19:15 UTC12d ago | 5 | held half | 2.9 days | 1 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:05 UTC FW26d ago | 8 | halved by day 5 | 14 days | 1 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 18:59 UTC40d ago | 4 | held half | 14 days | 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 The Unknown PVE rank against other Rust servers?
The Unknown PVE ranks #2,487 on seven-day player hours, #389 in North America, and sits in the top 11% of all ranked servers.
How busy is The Unknown PVE?
The Unknown PVE is offline at this count; we last saw it 3 hours ago. We counted an average of 2 players in the past week, with 6 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 00:00 UTC, when an average of 3 players were on.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Unknown PVE mean?
What the game's server browser reads from The Unknown PVE is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; 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): The region code is left blank; ^b (Biweekly): A wipe happens once a fortnight; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Unknown PVE?
The Unknown PVE appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted and North American Rust servers. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Unknown PVE?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 6 players. Peak came 5 hours into the latest wipe. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 67% of its recent wipes. By day 5 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on The Unknown PVE?
The prediction follows its tag, since too few of The Unknown PVE's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. A wipe is due on Sunday 1 November at 16:00 UTC, the next one. 9 days 7 hours ago the current world was made. A wipe every two weeks is what the tags publish.
Map and rules
Which map does The Unknown PVE run?
The Unknown PVE uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 1156067853. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Unknown PVE?
Nothing in The Unknown PVE's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. pve is what it runs, no player combat. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Unknown PVE run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for The Unknown PVE. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does The Unknown PVE run smoothly?
It ran at 73 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 6. Entities peaked at 93,234, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,793 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is The Unknown PVE online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, The Unknown PVE was last seen 3 hours ago. About 4 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is The Unknown PVE located?
By its NA tag, The Unknown PVE says it is in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 167.160.93.165:28025.
Getting in
How do I join The Unknown PVE?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 167.160.93.165:28025. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/KxaRqjQKbj.