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Specimen recordcat. no. 54NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty Moose |US Mondays|

Online NA 205.178.168.77:28010 checked 11m ago

official weekly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
301/ 325
= 20 players
93% full
7-day average
192
peak 889
Rank
#54
top 0.2% · #8 in NA
Last wipe
1d ago
weekly schedule
Next wipe
5d 8h
Mon 2 Nov, 18:59 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeakWipe
02505007501k11:0020:0005:0014:0023:0008:00Wiped Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
01020304011:0020:0005:0014:0023:0008:00Wiped Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 0.2% of all ranked servers, top 0.4% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Monday 2 November, 18:59 UTC, in 5d 8h. Every Monday at 18:59 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
86%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
881
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

5d 8h
Mon 2 Nov, 18:59 UTC
8d 8h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
12d 8h
Mon 9 Nov, 18:59 UTC
19d 8h
Mon 16 Nov, 18:59 UTC
26d 8h
Mon 23 Nov, 18:59 UTC
33d 8h
Mon 30 Nov, 18:59 UTC
36d 8h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
40d 8h
Mon 7 Dec, 18:59 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 19 OctMon 12 OctMon 5 Oct
02505007501k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 843, 5 hours in, with 232 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 UTC1d ago – – running 191
Mon 19 Oct, 18:59 UTC8d ago 843+232 queue halved by day 2 7 days 170
Mon 12 Oct, 18:59 UTC15d ago 990+549 queue halved by day 2 7 days 258
Mon 5 Oct, 18:58 UTC22d ago 810+183 queue halved by day 2 7 days 125
Sun 4 Oct, 23:41 UTC23d ago 810+183 queue – 0.8 days 46
Mon 21 Sep, 19:01 UTC36d ago 888+380 queue halved by day 2 13.2 days 142
Mon 14 Sep, 19:01 UTC43d ago 886+1 queue halved by day 2 7 days 36

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 |US Mondays| rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Rusty Moose |US Mondays| at #54, or #8 in North America, inside the top 0.2% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Moose |US Mondays|?

Rusty Moose |US Mondays| holds 301 players at the moment, out of 325 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 192 players and a peak of 889. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 20:00 UTC, when an average of 879 players were on.

Tags

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

The game's server browser reads the tags Rusty Moose |US Mondays| 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp325 (Max players): The server has 325 slots; ts12 (Group limit): You may team with up to 12 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs 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; ^w (Weekly): A weekly wipe takes place; ^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. 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 |US Mondays|?

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

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

These Rust Population lists include Rusty Moose |US Mondays|: Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 100+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe notes

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

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 881 players. At the peak of the latest wipe, 5 hours in, 232 more were queued. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 2 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

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

Counted by rhythm, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| wipes every Monday at 18:59 UTC. Due on Monday 2 November at 18:59 UTC is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 39 hours ago. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Mondays| run?

Rusty Moose |US Mondays| uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 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 |US Mondays|?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rusty Moose |US Mondays| states none. Up to 12 players can team together. This server runs survival, 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 Mondays| run?

On Linux, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rusty Moose |US Mondays| run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 28 server fps, with 17 as the lowest. Up to 341,072 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 12,094 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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

Right now, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 18 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Mondays| located?

By its NA tag, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| says it is in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 205.178.168.77:28010.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Mondays|?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 205.178.168.77:28010; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. For more, visit its website: https://moose.gg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp325,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts12

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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp325
Max players The server has 325 slots.
ts12
Group limit You may team with up to 12 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs 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

^w
Weekly A weekly wipe takes place.

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.