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Specimen recordcat. no. 4uk1first seen 13 Sep 2026

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes

Online EU · uk1 168.100.161.198:28014 checked 10m ago

2x monthly wipes vanillamodded

Measurements

Players now
760/ 800
= 50 players
95% full
7-day average
507
peak 1,309
Rank
#4
top 0.1% · #4 in EU
Last wipe
4d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
05001k1.5k2k16:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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
120040060080020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 0.1% of all ranked servers, top 0.1% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1,227
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

Coming wipes

9d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
23d 0h
Thu 19 Nov, 15:59 UTC
37d 3h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 1 OctThu 24 Sep
05001k1.5k2k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1,309, 4 hours in, with 113 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:59 UTC4d ago 1,309+113 queue – running 243
Thu 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC FW25d ago 1,349+359 queue halved by day 10 20.9 days 44
Thu 24 Sep, 15:59 UTC32d ago 1,022 halved by day 4 7.1 days 185

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 Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes rank against other Rust servers?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes ranks #4 on seven-day player hours, #4 in Europe, and sits in the top 0.1% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Of its 800 slots, Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is using 760 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 507 players and a peak of 1,309. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 16:00 UTC, when an average of 1,058 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes mean?

These are the tags Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp800 (Max players): You can join up to 800 slots; ts16 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 16 players; 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; $ruk1 (Region code): You will find uk1 as the region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe; jp16 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

3 other servers we track publish the same vitalrust.com hostname as Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 2x Rust servers: the live count, Rust servers in Europe and Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Modded ^z; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 2x; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 200+ on average and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1,227 players. Peaking 4 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd had 113 more waiting in the queue. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 7 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes follows a wipe rhythm of every 4 weeks on Thursday at 15:59 UTC. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it runs now dates from 4 days 23 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Settings

Which map does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run?

A procedural map of size 5,000 from seed 1050663377, generated by the game, is in use on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Vital Rust Custom.

What are the rules and settings on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes advertises a 2x gather rate in its title. A group may hold 16 players at most. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. By its own description it is vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 30 server fps, with a low of 30. Up to 1,099,946 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 16,055 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes online, and how reliable is it?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is up and running at the moment. About 8 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. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes located?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes lists Europe and the EU tag for it, with uk1 as its region code. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 168.100.161.198:28014.

How to join

How do I join Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Either enter client.connect 168.100.161.198:28014 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/HYtp3nV6Yd.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp800,ptrak,$ruk1,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts16,^z,jp16

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp800
Max players You can join up to 800 slots.
ts16
Group limit Teams can have no more than 16 players.
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.
$ruk1
Region code You will find uk1 as the region code.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

Region

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

Other

jp16
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.