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[AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded

Online OC 103.107.196.38:28045 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 50 slots 4% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 8
Rank#1,954top 9% · #48 in OC
RegionOCOC · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246820:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 9% of all ranked servers, top 23% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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 5, 33 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 19:09 UTC FW26d ago 5 – running 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded?

You'll find [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 3x Rust servers, live, Oceania Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 3x.

What do the server tags on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded mean?

For the server browser, [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; OC (Oceania): Its place in the server browser is under Oceania. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded rank against other Rust servers?

[AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded takes #1,954 on seven-day player hours, a top 9% spot overall and #48 across Oceania.

How many players are on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded right now?

2 players are on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 3 players across seven days, it topped out at 8. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 07:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.

Server details

Is [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded online, and how reliable is it?

[AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 26. The world carried as many as 158,593 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,288 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded located?

In Oceania, [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded lists itself with its OC tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 103.107.196.38:28045.

Which Rust version is [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 5 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 33 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 26 days. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded run?

The procedural map on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded measures 4,096 and comes from the game with seed 6738. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded?

Going by its name, [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded runs 3x gather. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [AU] Sandgropers Paradise 3X | PvPvE | Perth | Modded?

Enter client.connect 103.107.196.38:28045 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to 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 A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

OC
Oceania Its place in the server browser is under Oceania.

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.