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Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly

Online 142.132.217.116:28025 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 100 slots 1% full +1against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,143top 28%
Region–no continent published · group teams off
Last wipe18h agono schedule published
Next wipe6d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
00.250.50.75104:0013:0023:0007:0016:0001:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 08:58 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
05010015020004:0013:0023:0007:0016:0001:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 08:58 UTCWIPE

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 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 28% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

21 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

6d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
20d 5hThu 19 Nov, 08:58 UTC
34d 15hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
41d 5hThu 10 Dec, 08:58 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 2 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 08:58 UTC18h ago – – running 0
Thu 15 Oct, 09:01 UTC14d ago 4 halved by day 5 14 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 18:15 UTC FW28d ago 2 halved by day 8 13.6 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 07:53 UTC42d ago 7 halved by day 1 14.4 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

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Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly: 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; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

What do the server tags on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly mean?

These are the tags Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly publishes for the browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs. 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 Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly at #6,143, in the top 28% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly right now?

The current tally at Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly: 1 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 20:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 102, with 61 as the lowest. At its peak it held 106,109 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,752 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly located?

There is no region from Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 142.132.217.116:28025.

Which Rust version is Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 2 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. The crowd fell under half by day 5 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly?

The wipe rhythm on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly is every 3 weeks on Thursday at 08:58 UTC. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 18 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly run?

Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly runs a procedural map of 4,250, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly?

The name of Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly says nothing about gather rate. Nothing on group size is published here. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most punishing mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Rustomatic | Oldskool Hardcore | Bi-weekly?

Enter client.connect 142.132.217.116:28025 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://www.rustomatic.eu.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0,^o

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts0
Group limit No teams here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Mods and access

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

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.