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Specimen recordcat. no. 559NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty Moose |US Small|

Online NA 205.178.168.59:28010 checked 10m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
32/ 200
= 2 players
16% full
7-day average
28
peak 78
Rank
#559
top 3% · #96 in NA
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
01020304001:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304001:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 3% of all ranked servers, top 5% 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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

507
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 18h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0200400600800+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 507, 4 hours in, with 184 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW27d ago 507+184 queue – running 39

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

Player counts

How does Rusty Moose |US Small| rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Rusty Moose |US Small| at #559, or #96 in North America, inside the top 3% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Moose |US Small|?

The count reads 32 players on Rusty Moose |US Small|, which has 200 slots. We counted an average of 28 players in the past week, with 78 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 22:00 UTC, averaging 27 players.

Tags

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

These are the tags Rusty Moose |US Small| publishes, as read by the game's server browser: 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): You can join up to 200 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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.

Who runs Rusty Moose |US Small|?

28 other servers we track publish the same moose.gg hostname as Rusty Moose |US Small|, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

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

On Rust Population, Rusty Moose |US Small| is filed under these lists: Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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 10; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

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

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 507 players. Peaking 4 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd had 184 more waiting in the queue.

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

Rusty Moose |US Small| wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 6 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Small| run?

The map on Rusty Moose |US Small| is procedural, made by the game at size 4,000 from seed 1337. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. The name on the map is Moose Maps.

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

Nothing in Rusty Moose |US Small|'s name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rusty Moose |US Small| uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rusty Moose |US Small| run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 30. Entities peaked at 185,893, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,346 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

Rusty Moose |US Small| is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours were online, or 86%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Small| located?

The NA tag is how Rusty Moose |US Small| places itself in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 205.178.168.59:28010 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Small|?

Either enter client.connect 205.178.168.59:28010 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. You can find its website at https://moose.gg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,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 You can join up to 200 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.