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Zips Vanilla Rust

Online NA 104.129.133.41:28021 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#8,438top 38% · #1196 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75107:0016:0001:0010:0019:0004:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 38% of all ranked servers, top 64% in NA. 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 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 25 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 19:11 UTC FW26d ago 2 – 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Zips Vanilla Rust?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Zips Vanilla Rust: Community servers, by the numbers, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; 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.

What do the server tags on Zips Vanilla Rust mean?

For the server browser, Zips Vanilla Rust lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Zips Vanilla Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Zips Vanilla Rust takes #8,438 on seven-day player hours, a top 38% spot overall and #1,196 across North America.

How many players are on Zips Vanilla Rust right now?

The current tally at Zips Vanilla Rust: 0 players across 100 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 08:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.

Server details

Is Zips Vanilla Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Zips Vanilla Rust is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 34 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 Zips Vanilla Rust run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 105, with 19 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 89,051: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 6,175 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Zips Vanilla Rust located?

Zips Vanilla Rust uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 104.129.133.41:28021.

Which Rust version is Zips Vanilla Rust on?

On Linux, Zips Vanilla Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Zips Vanilla Rust when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 25 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Zips Vanilla Rust?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Zips Vanilla Rust, 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. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 11 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does Zips Vanilla Rust run?

A procedural map of 3,900 with seed 1 is what Zips Vanilla Rust runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Zips Vanilla Rust?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Zips Vanilla Rust. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. Oxide plugins are running on it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Zips Vanilla Rust?

Enter client.connect 104.129.133.41:28021 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

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.