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Specimen recordcat. no. 616NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop

Online NA 91.229.114.102:28015 checked 12m ago

official monthly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
18/ 200
= 1 player
9% full
7-day average
24
peak 61
Rank
#616
top 3% · #101 in NA
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
01020304004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 3% of all ranked servers, top 5% in NA. 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 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

200
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 15h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 200, 2 hours in, with 31 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:02 UTC FW27d ago 200+31 queue – running 14

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 Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop at #616, or #101 in North America, inside the top 3% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

Of its 200 slots, Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop is using 18 right now. We counted an average of 24 players in the past week, with 61 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 01:00 UTC, when an average of 30 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop is this set of tags: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp200 (Max players): You can join up to 200 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; 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): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America; rustmaps (Custom tag): This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set 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.

Who runs Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

16 other servers we track publish the same rplayrust.com hostname as Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

These Rust Population lists include Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop: Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 200 players. Peaking 2 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd had 31 more waiting in the queue.

What is the wipe schedule on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

The force wipe is the only wipe Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop takes, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 9 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Settings

Which map does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop run?

The map on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop is custom, size 4,000. You can download its published map file from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

Nothing in Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it in the Official tab in game. Oxide plugins are in use here. Vanilla is the label it uses: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 30 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 187,135, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 6,191 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop online, and how reliable is it?

Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop located?

By its NA tag, Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop says it is in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 91.229.114.102:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 91.229.114.102:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://reddit.com/r/playrust.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o,rustmaps

On Rust Population

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp200
Max players You can join up to 200 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
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.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Mods and access

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

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

Other

rustmaps
Custom tag This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set 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.