[NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly
Online NA 66.51.99.118:28115 checked 11m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 6 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW28d ago | 5 | – | 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours over the last seven days [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is #8,182, #1,178 in North America, placing it in the top 37% of ranked servers.
How busy is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
The count reads 0 players on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly, which has 200 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1. Look at the last 48 hours and 20:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 0 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly publishes: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp200 (Max players): The server has 200 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use; NA (North America): The server browser lists it 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.
Who runs [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
The rustascent.com hostname that [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly publishes is shared with 2 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
On Rust Population, [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
Averaged over recent wipes, 5 players were counted at the busiest point. 6 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
Once a month [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly 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 28 days 2 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.
Map and rules
Which map does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly run?
A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 626262276, generated by the game, is in use on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
Nothing in [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You will find Carbon running as plugins. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
About the server
Which version of Rust does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 29 server fps, with a low of 16. Up to 87,960 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,307 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.
Where is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly located?
The NA tag is how [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly 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 66.51.99.118:28115.
How to join
How do I join [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 66.51.99.118:28115. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. You can find its website at https://store.rustascent.com/.