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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,387NAfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

Pigs

Online NA 66.51.96.87:28000 checked 11m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#11,387
top 51% · #1334 in NA
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 5h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

0246814:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

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 1 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 51% of all ranked servers, top 72% 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 7d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 1 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 25 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 21:58 UTC FW27d ago 2 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 02:22 UTC28d ago 2 – 0.8 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 Pigs rank against other Rust servers?

Pigs ranks #11,387 on seven-day player hours, #1,334 in North America, and sits in the top 51% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Pigs?

Pigs holds 0 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Pigs mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Pigs publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; 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): 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): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. 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 Pigs?

Pigs appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted 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.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Pigs?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Pigs?

Once a month Pigs 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 27 days 11 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does Pigs run?

The map on Pigs is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 1337. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Pigs?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Pigs states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. 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. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Pigs run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Pigs uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Pigs run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 5 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities peaked at 48,415, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,435 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Pigs online, and how reliable is it?

Pigs is up and running at the moment. About 6 days 11 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 1 October 2026.

Where is Pigs located?

The NA tag is how Pigs places itself in North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 66.51.96.87:28000.

How to join

How do I join Pigs?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 66.51.96.87:28000. 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,^p,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 This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
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 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.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.