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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,327habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

Iron Meridian Monthly

Online 178.214.223.187:28015 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes vanillamoddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,327
top 69%
Last wipe
55d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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 1 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 1h. The force wipe

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 Iron Meridian Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,327 for player hours, which puts Iron Meridian Monthly in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Iron Meridian Monthly?

Of its 500 slots, Iron Meridian Monthly is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Iron Meridian Monthly mean?

These are the tags Iron Meridian Monthly publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs162929 (Build): Game build: 162929; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. 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 Iron Meridian Monthly?

Iron Meridian Monthly appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Iron Meridian Monthly?

The next wipe for Iron Meridian Monthly is estimated from the force wipe. 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 55 days 23 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Map and rules

Which map does Iron Meridian Monthly run?

The map on Iron Meridian Monthly is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 480887974. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Iron Meridian Monthly?

No gather rate appears in the name of Iron Meridian Monthly. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Oxide running as plugins. Vanilla is the label it uses: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Iron Meridian Monthly run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 162929 on Windows for Iron Meridian Monthly. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Iron Meridian Monthly run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 99 server fps, with a low of 96. Entities peaked at 45,578, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 1,489 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Iron Meridian Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Iron Meridian Monthly is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 1 October 2026.

Where is Iron Meridian Monthly located?

No region is published by Iron Meridian Monthly. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 178.214.223.187:28015.

How to join

How do I join Iron Meridian Monthly?

Either enter client.connect 178.214.223.187:28015 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/sBYjKpNfjg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^m,^v,gmrust,cs162929,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp500
Max players 500 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs162929
Build Game build: 162929.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.