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Specimen recordcat. no. 7,600habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

LunarRust

Online 185.189.255.68:35700 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#7,600
top 34%
Last wipe
1d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeakWipe
00.250.50.75119:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 11:36 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
05010015020019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 11:36 UTCWIPE

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep4 Oct12 Oct19 Oct29 Oct

Top 34% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

12.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

7d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 0h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 24 OctSun 4 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 28 Oct, 11:36 UTC1d ago – – running 0
Sat 24 Oct, 13:33 UTC5d ago 1 held half 3.9 days 0
Sun 4 Oct, 00:35 UTC25d ago 0 – 20.5 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

Population

How does LunarRust rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place LunarRust at #7,600, within the top 34% of all ranked servers.

How busy is LunarRust?

Of its 50 slots, LunarRust is using 0 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 09:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on LunarRust mean?

These are the tags LunarRust publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts10 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 10 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. 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 LunarRust?

LunarRust appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on LunarRust?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on LunarRust?

LunarRust wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 30 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does LunarRust run?

The map on LunarRust is procedural, made by the game at size 3,300 from seed 121315421. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on LunarRust?

Nothing in LunarRust's name says how gather works. The group limit is 10 players. survival is what it runs, 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. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does LunarRust run?

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

Does LunarRust run smoothly?

It ran at 126 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 36. Entities peaked at 81,030, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,693 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is LunarRust online, and how reliable is it?

You will find LunarRust online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 19 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 106 of 168 hours were online, or 63%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is LunarRust located?

No region is published by LunarRust. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 185.189.255.68:35700.

How to join

How do I join LunarRust?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 185.189.255.68:35700; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts10,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts10
Group limit Teams can have no more than 10 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so 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.