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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,245EUfirst seen 27 Sep 2026

[EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly

Online EU 5.9.28.5:28005 checked 7m ago

weekly wipes oxide

Measurements

Players now
2/ 100
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak 3
Rank
#5,245
top 24% · #1745 in EU
Last wipe
5d ago
weekly schedule
Next wipe
1d 21h
Thu 29 Oct, 18:00 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

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 27 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
15k10k15k20k27 Sep3 Oct9 Oct15 Oct21 Oct27 Oct

Top 24% of all ranked servers, top 60% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:00 UTC, in 1d 21h. Every Thursday at 18:00 UTC · medium confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
75%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
75%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

1d 21h
Thu 29 Oct, 18:00 UTC
8d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
15d 21h
Thu 12 Nov, 18:00 UTC
22d 21h
Thu 19 Nov, 18:00 UTC
29d 21h
Thu 26 Nov, 18:00 UTC
36d 22h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
43d 21h
Thu 10 Dec, 18:00 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 18:00 UTC5d ago 1 – running 1
Thu 15 Oct, 18:00 UTC12d ago 1 held half 7 days 0
Thu 8 Oct, 18:00 UTC19d ago 1 held half 7 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:54 UTC FW26d ago 1 halved by day 5 7 days 0
Sun 27 Sep, 16:33 UTC30d ago 1 held half 4.1 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

Population

How does [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly at #5,245, or #1,745 in Europe, inside the top 24% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

Of its 100 slots, [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly is using 2 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 3. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): You can join up to 100 slots; ts20 (Group limit): The team limit is 20; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^w (Weekly): A weekly wipe takes place; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; EU (Europe): In the server browser it appears under Europe. 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.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

These Rust Population lists include [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly: Rust servers in Europe and Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 75% of its recent wipes. In those that did not hold, the fall below half came by day 5.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

[EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly follows a wipe rhythm of every Thursday at 18:00 UTC. Due on Thursday 29 October at 18:00 UTC is its next wipe. 5 days 2 hours ago the current world was made. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Settings

Which map does [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly run?

[EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,750 with seed 1337. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. You will see the map named Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly. The group limit is 20 players. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. Oxide plugins are in use here. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 16 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities peaked at 94,546, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,867 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly is online. About 53 minutes ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. 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 27 September 2026.

Where is [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly located?

The EU tag is how [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly places itself in Europe. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 5.9.28.5:28005.

How to join

How do I join [EU] RustyLife Main | Vanilla | Weekly?

Either enter client.connect 5.9.28.5:28005 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/n2Ebu5qhu9.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts20,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players You can join up to 100 slots.
ts20
Group limit The team limit is 20.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly A weekly wipe takes place.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.

Region

EU
Europe In the server browser it appears 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.