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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,268habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

True Vanilla

Online 72.49.55.243:28015 checked 10m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,268
top 68%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
6d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 68% 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 6d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 21h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 7 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:58 UTC FW27d ago 1 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does True Vanilla rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place True Vanilla at #15,268, within the top 68% of all ranked servers.

How busy is True Vanilla?

Of its 10 slots, True Vanilla is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Tags

What do the server tags on True Vanilla mean?

What the game's server browser reads from True Vanilla is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include True Vanilla?

On Rust Population, True Vanilla is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on True Vanilla?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 7 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on True Vanilla?

Once a month True Vanilla 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. 27 days 21 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does True Vanilla run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 1442890237, generated by the game, is in use on True Vanilla. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on True Vanilla?

Nothing in True Vanilla's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does True Vanilla run?

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

Does True Vanilla run smoothly?

It ran at 83 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 67. Up to 114,423 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,407 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is True Vanilla online, and how reliable is it?

True Vanilla is up and running at the moment. About 20 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. 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 True Vanilla located?

No region is published by True Vanilla. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 72.49.55.243:28015.

Getting in

How do I join True Vanilla?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 72.49.55.243:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at http://nky-it.com.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players 10 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.