The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]
Online NA 74.136.196.241:28023 checked 24m 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 15% of all ranked servers, top 29% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 1h. 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 8, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:05 UTC FW26d ago | 8 | – | running | 1 |
| Tue 15 Sep, 19:43 UTC42d ago | 5 | held half | 15.9 days | 2 |
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
Population
How does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours over the last seven days The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] is #3,240, #535 in North America, placing it in the top 15% of ranked servers.
How busy is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
Of its 100 slots, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] is using 1 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 4. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] mean?
These are the tags The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 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 standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^r (Roleplay): This server is for roleplay; ^p (PvE): Other players are not a threat; the danger comes from the world; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is 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 The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
On Rust Population, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted, Rust population: roleplay 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, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 6 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. In 100% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
The force wipe is the only wipe The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] takes, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 23 hours ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.
Settings
Which map does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] run?
A procedural map of size 3,500 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. 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 The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. roleplay is what it runs, jobs, towns and rules for roleplay. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 107 server fps, with 93 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 87,807, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,828 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 5 days 20 hours ago. It was up 96% of the time over the last 7 full days, 162 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.
Where is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] located?
With its NA tag, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] 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. 74.136.196.241:28023 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 74.136.196.241:28023; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/dwYuaCmyxt.