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Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla

Online 143.223.117.115:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 250 slots 1% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,937top 31%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe1h agoweekly schedule
Next wipe6d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
00.511.5220:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 17:55 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
02040608020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 17:55 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 31% 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 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
25%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

Coming wipes

6d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
13d 22hThu 12 Nov, 17:55 UTC
20d 22hThu 19 Nov, 17:55 UTC
27d 22hThu 26 Nov, 17:55 UTC
34d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
41d 22hThu 10 Dec, 17:55 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 17:55 UTC1h ago – – running 1
Thu 22 Oct, 17:53 UTC7d ago 0 – – 0
Thu 15 Oct, 17:54 UTC14d ago 1 halved by day 1 7 days 0
Thu 8 Oct, 17:54 UTC21d ago 2 halved by day 6 7 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:55 UTC FW28d ago 1 halved by day 1 7 days 0
Thu 24 Sep, 17:53 UTC35d ago 2 held half 7 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:54 UTC42d ago 0 – 7 days 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

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla: Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

What do the server tags on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla mean?

For the server browser, Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp250 (Max players): It has 250 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla at #6,937, in the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla right now?

Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla is holding 2 players, with 250 slots in total. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Look at 15:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.

Server facts

Is Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla online, and how reliable is it?

Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla is live at the moment. About 15 minutes ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 59 server fps, with a low of 52. At its peak it held 112,913 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,639 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla located?

No region is published by Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 143.223.117.115:28015.

Which Rust version is Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla on?

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

Wipe days

What happens on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 25% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla?

Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla keeps to a every Thursday at 17:55 UTC wipe rhythm. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 1 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags carry a wipe schedule that runs weekly.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla run?

Generated by the game with seed 202033363, the map on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla?

The name of Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. Carbon plugins are running on it. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Rusty Nails | Weekly Vanilla?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 143.223.117.115:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^w,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp250
Max players It has 250 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon Carbon, 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.