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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,132NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Ominous Vanilla

Online NA 91.229.114.87:28019 checked 12m ago

vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#5,132
top 23% · #877 in NA
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5221:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 23% of all ranked servers, top 47% 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 22h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:25 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

Player counts

How does Ominous Vanilla rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put Ominous Vanilla at #5,132, or #877 in North America, inside the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Ominous Vanilla?

Ominous Vanilla holds 0 players at the moment, out of 10 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 18:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Ominous Vanilla mean?

These are the tags Ominous Vanilla publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): You can join up to 10 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): No region code is set; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Ominous Vanilla?

These Rust Population lists include Ominous Vanilla: Community servers, field-listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Ominous Vanilla?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Ominous Vanilla?

Ominous Vanilla wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, 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 27 days 2 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Ominous Vanilla run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 715632489, generated by the game, is in use on Ominous Vanilla. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Ominous Vanilla?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Ominous Vanilla states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. Oxide plugins are in use here. By its own description it is vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Ominous Vanilla run?

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

Does Ominous Vanilla run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 30 server fps, with 28 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 125,175, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,216 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Ominous Vanilla online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Ominous Vanilla is online. About 5 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 149 of 168 hours were online, or 89%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Ominous Vanilla located?

With its NA tag, Ominous Vanilla places itself in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 91.229.114.87:28019.

How to join

How do I join Ominous Vanilla?

Either enter client.connect 91.229.114.87:28019 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://www.ominousrust.com/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp10
Max players You can join up to 10 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 No region code is set.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

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.