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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,016habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Twig Experiments™

Online 66.51.98.51:28030 checked 11m ago

teams off monthly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 50
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#14,016
top 63%
Last wipe
47m ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 5h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75114:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

0246814:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

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 Sep27 Sep8 Oct15 Oct22 Oct29 Oct

Top 63% of all ranked servers. 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

4.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
67%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

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

Sun 25 OctWed 21 OctMon 5 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, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 13:08 UTC47m ago – – running 0
Sun 25 Oct, 10:08 UTC4d ago 1 – – 0
Wed 21 Oct, 12:50 UTC8d ago 1 halved by day 1 3.9 days 0
Mon 5 Oct, 08:05 UTC24d ago 1 halved by day 1 16.2 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 Twig Experiments™ rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Twig Experiments™ places at #14,016, within the top 63% of ranked servers.

How busy is Twig Experiments™?

The count reads 1 players on Twig Experiments™, which has 50 slots. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 12:00 UTC, when an average of 0 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on Twig Experiments™ mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Twig Experiments™ publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 Twig Experiments™?

On Rust Population, Twig Experiments™ is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Twig Experiments™?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. In 0% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe. By day 1 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Twig Experiments™?

Once a month Twig Experiments™ wipes, and that is with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. Counted from 47 minutes 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 Twig Experiments™ run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 58817882, generated by the game, is in use on Twig Experiments™. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. The name on the map is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Twig Experiments™?

No gather rate appears in the name of Twig Experiments™. You will find no published group limit here. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Twig Experiments™ run?

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

Does Twig Experiments™ run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 5 server fps, with a low of 5. Up to 43,434 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 1,982 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Twig Experiments™ online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Twig Experiments™ is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Twig Experiments™ located?

No region is published by Twig Experiments™. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 66.51.98.51:28030.

Getting in

How do I join Twig Experiments™?

Either enter client.connect 66.51.98.51:28030 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts0,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts0
Group limit Teams are disabled.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

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.

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.