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The Chill Zone

Online 104.143.3.231:28029 checked 2h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 160 slots 0% full −1against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 4
Rank#5,185top 23%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe13d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5220:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 23% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

12.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5.5

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctSun 20 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 37 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 03:14 UTC13d ago 3 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 21:10 UTC FW26d ago 5 halved by day 4 13.3 days 0
Sun 20 Sep, 18:18 UTC38d ago 2 halved by day 7 11.1 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Chill Zone?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Chill Zone: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on The Chill Zone mean?

These are the tags The Chill Zone publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp160 (Max players): Slots: 160; 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does The Chill Zone rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #5,185 puts The Chill Zone in the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on The Chill Zone right now?

The current tally at The Chill Zone: 0 players across 160 slots. Peak for the week was 4, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is The Chill Zone online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, The Chill Zone is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 days 19 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does The Chill Zone run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 7, with 5 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 111,477 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,628 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is The Chill Zone located?

No region is published by The Chill Zone. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 104.143.3.231:28029.

Which Rust version is The Chill Zone on?

On Linux, The Chill Zone runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on The Chill Zone when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 3 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 37 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 5.5.

What is the wipe schedule on The Chill Zone?

No next wipe can be predicted for The Chill Zone: its wipes happen at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 13 days 16 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does The Chill Zone run?

Generated by the game with seed 1193930318, the map on The Chill Zone is procedural and 4,350 in size. 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 The Chill Zone?

The name of The Chill Zone says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join The Chill Zone?

Enter client.connect 104.143.3.231:28029 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 mp160,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp160
Max players Slots: 160.
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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.