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[EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox

Online EU 148.251.177.248:28020 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 50 slots 6% full +2against this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 35
Rank#2,162top 10% · #832 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246815:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608015:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 29% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

6
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 39 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 01:32 UTC27d ago 6 – 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

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox?

You'll find [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live and Rust creative servers, watched. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Build server ^k, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox mean?

For the server browser, [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; 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): 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; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering; ^k (Build server): Design and practise your bases; ^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; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox sits at #2,162, inside the top 10% of ranked servers and at #832 in Europe.

How many players are on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox right now?

3 players are on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox at the moment, out of 50 slots. Peak for the week was 35, against an average of 2 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.

Server details

Is [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox is live at the moment. About 10 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 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 45, with 5 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 18,548: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,293 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox located?

With its EU tag, [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox lists itself in Europe. 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 148.251.177.248:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 6 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 39 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox?

The record of [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. 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 27 days 12 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox run?

Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox?

The name of [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs build & creative, build freely in a sandbox, no gathering. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [EU] Builders Republic | FREE VIP | Creative | Sandbox?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 148.251.177.248:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^c,^k,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
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 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.

Gameplay

^c
Creative Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering.
^k
Build server Design and practise your bases.

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.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it under Europe.

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.