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Specimen recordcat. no. 3,612habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs

Online 172.240.229.69:28035 checked 2h ago

vanillamoddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
2/ 70
= 1 player
3% full
7-day average
1
peak 4
Rank
#3,612
top 16%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
7d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5220:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 16% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

8
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 23h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 8, 21 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:17 UTC FW26d ago 8 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #3,612 for player hours, which puts Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs in the top 16% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

The count reads 2 players on Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs, which has 70 slots. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 4 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 17:00 UTC, when an average of 2 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs mean?

These are the tags Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp70 (Max players): 70 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Modded Rust servers, counted and PvE servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 8 players. 21 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

Once a month Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs wipes, and that is with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. 26 days 23 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs run?

Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs 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.

What are the rules and settings on Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

Nothing in Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get pve here, no player combat. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs run?

On Windows, Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 70 server fps, with a low of 50. Up to 110,529 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 7,055 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 5 days 18 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs located?

No region is published by Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 172.240.229.69:28035.

How to join

How do I join Tombstone PVE|Noob friendly| Custom NPCs?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 172.240.229.69:28035. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp70,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp70
Max players 70 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.