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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,325habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY

Online 74.136.87.96:28015 checked 11m ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
0/ 100
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#14,325
top 65%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 65% 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 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

1.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 21h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctThu 1 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 21:08 UTC26d ago 0 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 18:36 UTC FW27d ago 0 – 1.1 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 WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY at #14,325, within the top 65% of all ranked servers.

How busy is WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY holds 0 players at the moment, out of 100 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1.

Tags

What do the server tags on WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY mean?

These are the tags WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. 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 WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

On Rust Population, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

The force wipe is the only wipe WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 26 days ago the current world was made. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Map and rules

Which map does WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY run?

A procedural map of size 3,700 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | 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 WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

No gather rate appears in the name of WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Vanilla is the label it uses: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY run smoothly?

It ran at 60 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 55. Entities peaked at 77,577, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,445 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY online, and how reliable is it?

You will find WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 15 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY located?

Nothing published by WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 74.136.87.96:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT | VANILLA | MONTHLY?

Either enter client.connect 74.136.87.96:28015 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.