Rusty Moose |US Mini|
Online NA 168.100.162.253:28010 checked 9m 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 1% of all ranked servers, top 3% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:59 UTC, in 6h. Every Thursday at 18:59 UTC · 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 245, 6 hours in, with 14 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 18:59 UTC6d ago | 245+14 queue | – | running | 21 |
| Thu 15 Oct, 18:59 UTC13d ago | 108 | halved by day 3 | 7 days | 22 |
| Thu 8 Oct, 18:59 UTC20d ago | 243+10 queue | halved by day 2 | 7 days | 31 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:01 UTC FW27d ago | 153 | halved by day 2 | 7 days | 6 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:59 UTC34d ago | 257+12 queue | halved by day 3 | 7 days | 19 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 18:59 UTC41d ago | 90 | halved by day 2 | 7 days | 9 |
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 Rusty Moose |US Mini| rank against other Rust servers?
Rusty Moose |US Mini| ranks #316 on seven-day player hours, #61 in North America, and sits in the top 1% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
Rusty Moose |US Mini| holds 6 players at the moment, out of 150 slots. We counted an average of 56 players in the past week, with 245 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 01:00 UTC, when an average of 28 players were on.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |US Mini| mean?
These are the tags Rusty Moose |US Mini| publishes, as read by the game's server browser: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp150 (Max players): The server has 150 slots; ts5 (Group limit): The team limit is 5; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
A moose.gg hostname comes from Rusty Moose |US Mini| and from 28 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
On Rust Population, Rusty Moose |US Mini| is filed under these lists: Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only and it will show up.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 199 players. 14 more waited in the queue when the crowd peaked 6 hours into the latest wipe. In 0% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe. The crowd dropped below half by day 2 when it did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
Rusty Moose |US Mini| follows a wipe rhythm of every Thursday at 18:59 UTC. On Thursday 29 October at 18:59 UTC its next wipe is due. Counted from 6 days 17 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. The tags state a weekly wipe schedule.
Map and rules
Which map does Rusty Moose |US Mini| run?
Rusty Moose |US Mini| uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 1337. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. The name on the map is Moose Maps.
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rusty Moose |US Mini| states none. The group limit is 5 players. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Rust's own Official tab carries it. The server describes itself as vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Rusty Moose |US Mini| run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Rusty Moose |US Mini|. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does Rusty Moose |US Mini| run smoothly?
It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 29. The entity count reached 118,288: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,264 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Is Rusty Moose |US Mini| online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Rusty Moose |US Mini| is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 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 Rusty Moose |US Mini| located?
With its NA tag, Rusty Moose |US Mini| places itself in North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 168.100.162.253:28010 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join Rusty Moose |US Mini|?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 168.100.162.253:28010; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://moose.gg.