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Specimen recordcat. no. 4,328EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe

Online EU 85.228.18.151:28014 checked 1h ago

monthly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 175
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#4,328
top 19% · #1543 in EU
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5219:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers, top 53% in EU. 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 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 0h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 13 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 08:46 UTC26d 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe at #4,328, or #1,543 in Europe, inside the top 19% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe holds 0 players at the moment, out of 175 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp175 (Max players): You can join up to 175 slots; 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): 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; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

No other server we track publishes the northern-gaming.com hostname that [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe uses.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

These Rust Population lists include [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe: Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 5 players. 13 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

Once a month [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe 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. Counted from 26 days 9 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 [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe run?

The map on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe is procedural, made by the game at size 4,250 from seed 642994646. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You will find Oxide running as plugins. By its own description it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 30 as the lowest. The entity count reached 106,624: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 4,046 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 11 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe located?

The EU tag is how [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 85.228.18.151:28014.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

Either enter client.connect 85.228.18.151:28014 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/yMyYn8Tf2C.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp175,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp175
Max players You can join up to 175 slots.
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 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.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is under Europe.

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.