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Specimen recordcat. no. 319EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty Moose |EU Small|

Offline EU 51.254.81.171:28010 checked 1d ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
111/ 200
= 5 players
56% full
7-day average
75
peak 157
Rank
#319
top 1% · #163 in EU
Last wipe
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020020:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304020:0021:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, top 6% 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 6d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

498
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 23h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0200400600800+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 498, 0 hours in, with 133 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC FW28d ago 498+133 queue – running 35

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 Moose |EU Small| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| ranks #319 on seven-day player hours, #163 in Europe, and sits in the top 1% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| is offline at this count; we last saw it 46 hours ago. Seven days of counting give an average of 75 players and a peak of 157. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 20:00 UTC, when an average of 129 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |EU Small| mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rusty Moose |EU Small| publishes: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp200 (Max players): 200 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; EU (Europe): In the server browser it appears 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.

Who runs Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

The moose.gg hostname that Rusty Moose |EU Small| publishes is shared with 28 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

On Rust Population, Rusty Moose |EU Small| is filed under these lists: Rust servers in Europe, Official Rust servers, counted and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 100; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 498 players. 133 more waited in the queue when the crowd peaked 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Rusty Moose |EU Small| wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 28 days 1 hours ago the current world was made. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on Rusty Moose |EU Small|. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. You will see the map named Moose Maps.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Nothing in Rusty Moose |EU Small|'s name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rusty Moose |EU Small| uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rusty Moose |EU Small| run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 30. Entities peaked at 210,910, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,227 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Rusty Moose |EU Small| online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw Rusty Moose |EU Small| 46 hours ago, and it is offline now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 142 of 168 hours were online, or 85%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rusty Moose |EU Small| located?

With its EU tag, Rusty Moose |EU Small| places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 51.254.81.171:28010.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Moose |EU Small|?

Either enter client.connect 51.254.81.171:28010 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://moose.gg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

On Rust Population

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp200
Max players 200 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

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.