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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,288NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE

Online NA 51.222.254.161:28035 checked 9m ago

3x monthly wipes moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#5,288
top 24% · #891 in NA
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 13h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5206:0015:0001:0009:0018:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608006:0015:0001:0009:0018:0003:00

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 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 24% of all ranked servers, top 48% in NA. 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 6d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 13h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 13h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 12 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 07:01 UTC27d ago 1 – running 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 Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE at #5,288, or #891 in North America, inside the top 24% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

The count reads 0 players on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE, which has 50 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 3x Rust servers, counted live, Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted, Rust zombie and infected servers and North American Rust servers. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 3x.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 12 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

Once a month Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 27 days 22 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE run?

Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 1337. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page. You will see the map named Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

The name says it: gathering is multiplied 3x on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. pve is what it runs, no player combat. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE run smoothly?

It ran at 10 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 5. The entity count reached 38,338: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 2,038 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 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 Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE located?

By its NA tag, Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE says it is in North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 51.222.254.161:28035 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.222.254.161:28035. 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,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.