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Specimen recordcat. no. 252NAfirst seen 23 Oct 2026

Rusty Moose |US Medium|

Online NA 208.52.153.159:28010 checked 6m ago

official weekly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
25/ 200
= 1 player
12% full
7-day average
103
peak 344
Rank
#252
top 1% · #50 in NA
Last wipe
6d ago
weekly schedule
Next wipe
21h
Thu 29 Oct, 18:59 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
02040608022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

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 23 Oct. 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
15001k1.5k2k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, top 3% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:59 UTC, in 21h. Weekly: 7 days after its last wipe

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 Medium| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |US Medium| ranks #252 on seven-day player hours, #50 in North America, and sits in the top 1% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Moose |US Medium|?

Rusty Moose |US Medium| holds 25 players at the moment, out of 200 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 103 players and a peak of 344. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 01:00 UTC, when an average of 58 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

These are the tags Rusty Moose |US Medium| 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp200 (Max players): 200 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs Rusty Moose |US Medium|?

The moose.gg hostname that Rusty Moose |US Medium| publishes is shared with 28 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

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

These Rust Population lists include Rusty Moose |US Medium|: 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: Weekly ^w and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 100+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

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

Estimated from weekly: 7 days after its last wipe, that is Rusty Moose |US Medium|'s next wipe. A wipe is due on Thursday 29 October at 18:59 UTC, the next one. The world it runs now dates from 6 days 2 hours ago. The tags state a weekly wipe schedule.

Settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Medium| run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on Rusty Moose |US Medium|. 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 Medium|?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rusty Moose |US Medium| states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. Vanilla is the label it uses: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

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

On Linux, Rusty Moose |US Medium| 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 Medium| run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 30. Entities peaked at 207,297, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,445 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

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

Rusty Moose |US Medium| is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. Over the last 4 full days, 96 of 96 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 23 October 2026.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Medium| located?

The NA tag is how Rusty Moose |US Medium| places itself in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 208.52.153.159:28010.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Medium|?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 208.52.153.159:28010. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. 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,^w,^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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp200
Max players 200 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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 No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it appears 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.