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Specimen recordcat. no. 7,779NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore

Online NA 66.51.99.131:28035 checked 9m ago

quad biweekly wipes carbonsoftcore

Measurements

Players now
0/ 100
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#7,779
top 35% · #1143 in NA
Last wipe
13d ago
biweekly schedule
Next wipe
7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75108:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040008:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA, and #427 of the quad servers (top 52%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
50%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

Coming wipes

7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
14d 10h
Thu 12 Nov, 17:57 UTC
35d 11h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
42d 10h
Thu 10 Dec, 17:57 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 5 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:57 UTC13d ago 2 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:56 UTC FW27d ago 2 held half 14 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:56 UTC41d ago 3 halved by day 3 14 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 Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore at #7,779, or #1,143 in North America, inside the top 35% of all ranked servers. It places #427 among servers of the quad kind.

How busy is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore holds 0 players at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2. Look at the last 48 hours and 04:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 1 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore is this set of tags: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules apply, an easier set; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): You may team with up to 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks the server wipes; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is 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 Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed and North American Rust servers. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Biweekly ^b and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. 5 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. By day 3 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

The wipe rhythm for Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore is every 4 weeks on Thursday at 17:57 UTC. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 13 days 13 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.

Settings

Which map does Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore run?

A procedural map of size 3,750 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore states none. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). softcore is what it runs, Facepunch's lighter mode, where some loot is kept. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You will find Carbon running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 158 server fps, with 117 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 90,200, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,076 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore online, and how reliable is it?

Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore is up and running at the moment. 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%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore located?

The NA tag is how Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore 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 66.51.99.131:28035.

How to join

How do I join Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 66.51.99.131:28035. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. For more, visit its website: https://thermite.gg.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^b,NA,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules apply, an easier set.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit You may team with up to 4 players.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly Every two weeks the server wipes.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.