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Specimen recordcat. no. 4,628EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly

Online EU 2.57.130.179:28015 checked 13m ago

monthly wipes vanillacarbon

Measurements

Players now
1/ 120
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
0
peak 3
Rank
#4,628
top 21% · #1619 in EU
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 12h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75107:0016:0001:0010:0019:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020007:0016:0001:0010:0019:0004:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 21% of all ranked servers, top 55% in EU. 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 8d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 12h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 12h
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, 40 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:51 UTC FW26d 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 [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

On player hours over the last seven days [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly is #4,628, #1,619 in Europe, placing it in the top 21% of ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

[EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly holds 1 players at the moment, out of 120 slots. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 3 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 11:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp120 (Max players): 120 slots are available; 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): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. 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 [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

[EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; 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 [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 4 players. 40 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

Once a month [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 26 days 10 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly run?

[EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 2147483647. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The plugins it runs are Carbon. By its own description it is vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 129 server fps, with 100 as the lowest. Up to 120,446 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,327 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly located?

The EU tag is how [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly places itself in Europe. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 2.57.130.179:28015.

How to join

How do I join [EU] The Rusty Rifle | Monthly?

Either enter client.connect 2.57.130.179:28015 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 mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp120
Max players 120 slots are available.
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 No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is under Europe.

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.