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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,270NAfirst seen 10 Oct 2026

Tangent Mile

Online NA 51.222.255.28:28000 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,270
top 69% · #1490 in NA
Last wipe
16d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

0246808:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

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 10 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k10 Oct14 Oct18 Oct22 Oct26 Oct30 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 80% 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

3.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

6d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 11h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 13 OctSat 10 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
Tue 13 Oct, 23:11 UTC16d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 10 Oct, 01:19 UTC20d ago 1 halved by day 2 3.9 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

Population

How does Tangent Mile rank against other Rust servers?

Tangent Mile ranks #15,270 on seven-day player hours, #1,490 in North America, and sits in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Tangent Mile?

Of its 50 slots, Tangent Mile is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Tangent Mile mean?

These are the tags Tangent Mile publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America. 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 Tangent Mile?

On Rust Population, Tangent Mile is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted and North American Rust servers. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Tangent Mile?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 2 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Tangent Mile?

Once a month Tangent Mile wipes, and that is with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Counted from 16 days 8 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Settings

Which map does Tangent Mile run?

Tangent Mile uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 5,500 with seed 483271. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Tangent Mile?

Nothing in Tangent Mile's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Tangent Mile run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Tangent Mile. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Tangent Mile run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 5 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities peaked at 177,654, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,054 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Tangent Mile online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Tangent Mile is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 20 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 10 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Tangent Mile located?

By its NA tag, Tangent Mile says it is in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 51.222.255.28:28000.

Getting in

How do I join Tangent Mile?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.222.255.28:28000. 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,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it appears 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.