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Specimen recordcat. no. 3,055NAfirst seen 27 Sep 2026

Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly

Online NA 18.119.8.128:28015 checked 10m ago

monthly wipes vanillacarbon

Measurements

Players now
1/ 100
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
1
peak 5
Rank
#3,055
top 14% · #511 in NA
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 17h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5202:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304002:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

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 27 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k27 Sep3 Oct10 Oct16 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 14% of all ranked servers, top 27% in NA. 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 17h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 17h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 17h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 46 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 04:27 UTC26d ago 4 – 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

Population

How does Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly at #3,055, or #511 in North America, inside the top 14% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

The count reads 1 players on Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly, which has 100 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 5. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 03:00 UTC, when an average of 1 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use; NA (North America): The server browser lists it 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 Tux - Linux Friendly?

No other server we track publishes the fuzzycheese.com hostname that Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly uses.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

On Rust Population, Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

Averaged over recent wipes, 4 players were counted at the busiest point. 46 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 26 days 20 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly run?

Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 879705647. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You will find Carbon running as plugins. By its own description it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly run?

On Linux, Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 22. Entities peaked at 122,825, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,983 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly online, and how reliable is it?

Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly is up and running at the moment. About 20 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 27 September 2026.

Where is Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly located?

With its NA tag, Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly places itself in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 18.119.8.128:28015.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Tux - Linux Friendly?

Either enter client.connect 18.119.8.128:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.