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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,694EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty Moose |EU Small|

Online EU 205.178.168.211:28010 checked 13m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
50/ 200
= 2 players
25% full
7-day average
28
peak 67
Rank
#1,694
top 8% · #668 in EU
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
1d 3h
Thu 29 Oct, 13:53 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
02040608021:0023:0002:0004:0007:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304021:0023:0002:0004:0007:0009:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, top 23% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

a steady gap

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 13:53 UTC, in 1d 3h. Every 7 days · medium confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
954
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

1d 3h
Thu 29 Oct, 13:53 UTC
8d 8h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
15d 3h
Thu 12 Nov, 13:46 UTC
22d 2h
Thu 19 Nov, 13:43 UTC
29d 2h
Thu 26 Nov, 13:39 UTC
36d 8h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
43d 2h
Thu 10 Dec, 13:33 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 8 OctThu 1 Oct
05001k1.5k2k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 943, 3 hours in, with 263 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 13:59 UTC12d ago 943+263 queue – running 174
Thu 8 Oct, 14:03 UTC19d ago 1,091+699 queue halved by day 2 7 days 290
Thu 1 Oct, 18:02 UTC FW26d ago 828+56 queue halved by day 2 6.8 days 49
Thu 24 Sep, 14:01 UTC33d ago 992+962 queue halved by day 3 7.2 days 396
Thu 17 Sep, 14:01 UTC40d ago 979+502 queue halved by day 2 7 days 6

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 Moose |EU Small| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| ranks #1,694 on seven-day player hours, #668 in Europe, and sits in the top 8% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| holds 50 players at the moment, out of 200 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 28 players and reached a peak of 67. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 22:00 UTC, averaging 61 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |EU Small| mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rusty Moose |EU Small| publishes: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp200 (Max players): The server has 200 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^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; 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.

Who runs Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

A moose.gg hostname comes from Rusty Moose |EU Small| and from 28 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

On Rust Population, Rusty Moose |EU Small| is filed under these lists: Rust servers in Europe, Official Rust servers, counted and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 50; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 954 players. Peaking 3 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd had 263 more waiting in the queue. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 2 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

The recent gap between wipes on Rusty Moose |EU Small| is about 7 days. On Thursday 29 October at 13:53 UTC its next wipe is due. 26 days 16 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 1337. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Moose Maps.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rusty Moose |EU Small| states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The Official tab in Rust lists it. Vanilla is the label it uses: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Rusty Moose |EU Small|. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 30 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 212,333, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,506 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rusty Moose |EU Small| online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rusty Moose |EU Small| is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 5 minutes ago. Over the last 7 full days, 21 of 168 hours were online, or 12%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rusty Moose |EU Small| located?

By its EU tag, Rusty Moose |EU Small| says it is in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 205.178.168.211:28010.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 205.178.168.211:28010. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. For more, visit its website: https://moose.gg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

On Rust Population

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp200
Max players The server has 200 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.

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.