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Specimen recordcat. no. 2,772habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP

Online 172.240.229.71:28085 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
2/ 100
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
1
peak 6
Rank
#2,772
top 12%
Last wipe
24d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608000:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 12% 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 19h
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 7, 16 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 11:52 UTC24d ago 7 – running 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP places at #2,772, within the top 12% of ranked servers.

How busy is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

The count reads 2 players on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP, which has 100 slots. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 6 at the busiest. Look at the last 48 hours and 06:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 3 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP mean?

What the game's server browser reads from THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no 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. 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 THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 7 players. Peak came 16 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Once a month THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP 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. Counted from 24 days 11 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP run?

The map on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 48224. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Nothing in THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. Vanilla is the label it uses: 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 THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP run?

On Windows, THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 56 server fps, with a low of 49. The entity count reached 135,811: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,859 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP online, and how reliable is it?

THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is up and running at the moment. About 5 days 1 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP located?

A region is not published by THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 172.240.229.71:28085.

Getting in

How do I join THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28085. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/kxvhS3Y.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players 100 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no 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.

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.