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Specimen recordcat. no. 3,387habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Vanilla Rust PVE

Online 173.225.104.251:28080 checked 10m ago

oxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 4
Rank
#3,387
top 15%
Last wipe
13d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no rhythm it keeps
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5216:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

14.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
6
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
50%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 9, 21 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 23:04 UTC13d ago 9 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 18:32 UTC FW27d ago 3 held half 14.2 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:45 UTC41d ago 6 halved by day 7 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Vanilla Rust PVE rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #3,387 for player hours, which puts Vanilla Rust PVE in the top 15% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Vanilla Rust PVE?

Vanilla Rust PVE holds 0 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 4. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 00:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Vanilla Rust PVE mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Vanilla Rust 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): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server. 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 Vanilla Rust PVE?

Vanilla Rust PVE appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Vanilla Rust PVE?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 6 players. Peak came 21 hours into the latest wipe. In 50% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe. By day 7 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Rust PVE?

No next wipe can be predicted for Vanilla Rust PVE, which wipes at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 13 days 16 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Vanilla Rust PVE run?

Vanilla Rust PVE uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,250 with seed 1169124776. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Rust PVE?

Nothing in Vanilla Rust PVE's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Vanilla Rust PVE run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for Vanilla Rust PVE. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Vanilla Rust PVE run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 112 server fps, with 85 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 103,982, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,330 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Vanilla Rust PVE online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Vanilla Rust PVE is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 3 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 Vanilla Rust PVE located?

A region is not published by Vanilla Rust PVE. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 173.225.104.251:28080.

Getting in

How do I join Vanilla Rust PVE?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 173.225.104.251:28080; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/bspBJBHryg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.

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.