EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|
Online EU 212.73.137.40:28026 checked 11m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 26 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 50% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:56 UTC FW28d ago | 6 | – | running | 2 |
| Sat 26 Sep, 21:30 UTC33d ago | 9 | halved by day 2 | 4.9 days | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| rank against other Rust servers?
EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| ranks #3,931 on seven-day player hours, #1,447 in Europe, and sits in the top 18% of all ranked servers.
How busy is EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
The count reads 0 players on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|, which has 40 slots. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 6 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 12:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| mean?
What the game's server browser reads from EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 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): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Other players are not a threat; the danger comes from the world; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it appears under Europe. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
On Rust Population, EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| is filed under these lists: Rust servers in Europe, Modded Rust servers, counted and PvE servers, counted. Filter the server list by Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 8 players. Peak came 1 hours into the latest wipe. In 0% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe. By day 2 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
The force wipe is the only wipe EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| takes, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 8 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.
Settings
Which map does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| run?
The map on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| is procedural, made by the game at size 3,500 from seed 1. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. The name on the map is Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. pve is what it runs, no player combat. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. Oxide plugins are in use here. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
Server details
Which version of Rust does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 30 server fps, with a low of 22. Up to 95,000 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,833 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| online, and how reliable is it?
EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| is up and running at the moment. About 11 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 26 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| located?
By its EU tag, EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| says it is in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 212.73.137.40:28026 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 212.73.137.40:28026; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/J2qmwCM73V.