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GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant

Online NA 104.143.2.17:28615 checked 3h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 6/ 100 slots 6% full +1+24%against this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 26
Rank#1,220top 6% · #178 in NA
RegionNANA · group 15 max
Last wipe6d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152021:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304021:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 6% of all ranked servers, top 10% 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 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

21 days
usual gap
between real wipes
22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 16

Coming wipes

7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 1 Oct
010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 26, 10 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 17:58 UTC6d ago 26 – running 5
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW27d ago 19 halved by day 16 21 days 1

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 GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant: The 5x scene, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts15 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 15; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant sits at #1,220, inside the top 6% of ranked servers and at #178 in North America.

How many players are on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant right now?

The current tally at GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant: 6 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 26, against an average of 7 players. Look at 22:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 10 players on average.

Server facts

Is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 98%, with 164 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 21. The world carried as many as 217,593 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 8,394 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant located?

In North America, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 104.143.2.17:28615.

Which Rust version is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant on?

On Linux, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 22 players. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 16.

What is the wipe schedule on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 6 days 2 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant run?

Generated by the game with seed 629472, the map on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

Gather comes at 5x on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant, according to its name. A group holds at most 15 players. It runs pve, no fighting other players. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.143.2.17:28615. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/grumpyoldman.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts15,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players Slots: 100.
ts15
Group limit Each team is capped at 15.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.