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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,959EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox

Online EU 46.174.50.248:20540 checked 10m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
9/ 35
= 1 player
26% full
7-day average
2
peak 13
Rank
#1,959
top 9% · #763 in EU
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 9% of all ranked servers, top 26% in EU. 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 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

11
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 11, 21 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 19:49 UTC FW27d ago 11 – running 3

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 [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox rank against other Rust servers?

[EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox ranks #1,959 on seven-day player hours, #763 in Europe, and sits in the top 9% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

The count reads 9 players on [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox, which has 35 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 2 players and a peak of 13. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 13:00 UTC, when an average of 11 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp35 (Max players): You can join up to 35 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): No gathering is needed; this is sandbox building where you build what you like; ^k (Build server): Use this server to practise and design bases; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. 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.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

On Rust Population, [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox is filed under these lists: Rust servers in Europe, Modded Rust servers, counted, Build and creative servers and Rust creative servers, counted live. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Creative ^c, Build server ^k, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

Averaged over recent wipes, 11 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 21 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

[EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox 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. Counted from 27 days 19 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox run?

[EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 1337. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page. The name on the map is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get build & creative here, building in a sandbox, with nothing to gather. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 on Linux for [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 25 as the lowest. Up to 101,617 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,787 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 5 days 2 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox located?

The EU tag is how [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 46.174.50.248:20540.

Getting in

How do I join [EU]FreeFields/Creative/Building/Sandbox?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 46.174.50.248:20540; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/jdYbgAacUM.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp35,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^c,^k,EU,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp35
Max players You can join up to 35 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^c
Creative No gathering is needed; this is sandbox building where you build what you like.
^k
Build server Use this server to practise and design bases.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it 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.