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| VF | Hardcore | PvP |

Online 104.129.133.111:28041 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 40 slots 2% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#4,282top 19%
Region–no continent published · group teams off
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304023:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers. 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 6d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 20hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC FW28d 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include | VF | Hardcore | PvP |: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on | VF | Hardcore | PvP | mean?

These are the tags | VF | Hardcore | PvP | publishes for the browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules make it harsher; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; 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 code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and harsher survival in Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #4,282 puts | VF | Hardcore | PvP | in the top 19% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on | VF | Hardcore | PvP | right now?

The current tally at | VF | Hardcore | PvP |: 1 players across 40 slots. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 18:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | online, and how reliable is it?

| VF | Hardcore | PvP | is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 14 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 12 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 125,509 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,956 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | located?

No region is published by | VF | Hardcore | PvP |. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 104.129.133.111:28041.

Which Rust version is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | on?

On Linux, | VF | Hardcore | PvP | runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on | VF | Hardcore | PvP | when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 5 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for | VF | Hardcore | PvP |, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 28 days 2 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | run?

A procedural map of 4,500 is what | VF | Hardcore | PvP | runs, generated by the game.

What are the rules and settings on | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

The name of | VF | Hardcore | PvP | says nothing about gather rate. The group limit goes unpublished. Facepunch's most punishing mode: that is the hardcore mode. Players can raid and fight one another. It appears under Community in the browser. The plugin count is Carbon. Joining requires Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.129.133.111:28041. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Joining requires Rust's premium status. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/VanillaFudge.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^h,gmhardcore,cs168909,^q,ts0

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode Hardcore rules make it harsher.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts0
Group limit No teams here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
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 code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Fewer helpers and harsher survival in Facepunch's hardcore mode.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.
^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.