Vanilla Server
Offline 185.98.170.5:28025 checked 5d ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 43% of all ranked servers, and #484 of the quad servers (top 58%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 03:12 UTC19d ago | – | – | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does Vanilla Server rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #9,471 for player hours, which puts Vanilla Server in the top 43% of all ranked servers. It places #484 among servers of the quad kind.
How busy is Vanilla Server?
We have no live count for Vanilla Server right now. It was last seen 5 days 21 hours ago. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 1.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Vanilla Server mean?
What the game's server browser reads from Vanilla Server is this set of tags: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Vanilla Server?
On Rust Population, Vanilla Server is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Group limit: Quad.
Wipe notes
What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Server?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Vanilla Server's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 19 days 15 hours ago the current world was made.
Map and rules
Which map does Vanilla Server run?
Vanilla Server uses a map the game generates: procedural.
What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of Vanilla Server. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). softcore is what it runs, Facepunch's lighter mode, where some loot is kept. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Vanilla Server run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows for Vanilla Server. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Is Vanilla Server online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, Vanilla Server was last seen 5 days 21 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 5 of 168 hours were online, or 3%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 8 October 2026.
Where is Vanilla Server located?
A region is not published by Vanilla Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 185.98.170.5:28025.
Getting in
How do I join Vanilla Server?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 185.98.170.5:28025; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.