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Camera-shy: no banner published | VF | Softcore | PvP | Onlineright now +1since yesterday
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| VF | Softcore | PvP |

Online 104.129.133.41:28049 checked 7m ago

quad monthly wipes carbonsoftcorepremium
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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 40 slots 2% full +1against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#9,472top 43%
Region–no continent published · group quad
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75114:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 43% of all ranked servers, and #483 of the quad servers (top 59%). 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 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 5hThu 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, 20 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC FW26d 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 | Softcore | PvP |?

You'll find | VF | Softcore | PvP | on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Premium ^q and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from | VF | Softcore | PvP |: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules make it easier; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^s (Softcore): Facepunch's softcore mode lets you keep some inventory after dying; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join. 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 | VF | Softcore | PvP | rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #9,472 puts | VF | Softcore | PvP | in the top 43% of all ranked servers. It comes in at #483 among quad servers.

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

1 players are on | VF | Softcore | PvP | at the moment, out of 40 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 05:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server facts

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

| VF | Softcore | PvP | is live at the moment. About 5 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does | VF | Softcore | PvP | run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 29 server fps, with a low of 12. Entities reached a maximum of 123,696: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,904 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is | VF | Softcore | PvP | located?

There is no region from | VF | Softcore | 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 104.129.133.41:28049.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version | VF | Softcore | PvP | runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. 20 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for | VF | Softcore | 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. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 17 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

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

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 101042635 is what | VF | Softcore | PvP | runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

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

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on | VF | Softcore | PvP |. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept: that is the softcore mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. Carbon plugins are running on it. Rust's premium status is required to join. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

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

Enter client.connect 104.129.133.41:28049 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. Rust's premium status is required to join. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/VanillaFudge.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs168909,^q,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules make it easier.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts4
Group limit Each team is capped at 4.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^s
Softcore Facepunch's softcore mode lets you keep some inventory after dying.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.