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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,494habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty Tortoise

Online 47.206.72.241:28015 checked 3h ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#11,494
top 52%
Last wipe
25d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0007:0010:0012:0015:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304005:0007:0010:0012:0015:0017:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 52% of all ranked servers. 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 22h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 3 OctFri 2 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 16 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 05:03 UTC25d ago 3 – running 0
Fri 2 Oct, 06:22 UTC26d ago 3 – 0.9 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Rusty Tortoise rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rusty Tortoise at #11,494, within the top 52% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Tortoise?

The count reads 0 players on Rusty Tortoise, which has 50 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rusty Tortoise mean?

These are the tags Rusty Tortoise publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $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): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. 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 Rusty Tortoise?

On Rust Population, Rusty Tortoise is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rusty Tortoise?

Averaged over recent wipes, 3 players were counted at the busiest point. 16 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Tortoise?

Rusty Tortoise wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 15 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Tortoise run?

The map on Rusty Tortoise is procedural, made by the game at size 4,000 from seed 1996107046. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Tortoise?

Nothing in Rusty Tortoise's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. 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 Tortoise run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Rusty Tortoise. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rusty Tortoise run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 30 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 94,810, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,187 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rusty Tortoise online, and how reliable is it?

Rusty Tortoise is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 131 of 168 hours were online, or 78%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rusty Tortoise located?

No region is published by Rusty Tortoise. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 47.206.72.241:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Tortoise?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 47.206.72.241:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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 No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.