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Vanilla Server

Offline 151.177.8.19:28015 checked 1d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 3 slots 33% full
7-day average1peak 1
Rank#9,111top 41%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe4d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75116:0017:0018:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040016:0017:0018:0019:00

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 27 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
15k10k15k20k27 Sep3 Oct12 Oct17 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 41% 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.

6.3 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 24 OctMon 12 OctSun 11 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 24 Oct, 11:22 UTC4d ago 1 – running 0
Mon 12 Oct, 18:57 UTC16d ago 2 halved by day 2 11.7 days 0
Sun 11 Oct, 18:36 UTC17d ago 2 – 1 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

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Vanilla Server?

You'll find Vanilla Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on Vanilla Server mean?

These are the tags Vanilla Server publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp3 (Max players): Slots: 3; 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): 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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Vanilla Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Vanilla Server at #9,111, within the top 41% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Vanilla Server right now?

The last sighting of Vanilla Server was 31 hours ago, and it is offline now. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 1 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server facts

Is Vanilla Server online, and how reliable is it?

Down at the moment: Vanilla Server was last seen 31 hours ago. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 hours ago. It was up 7% of the time over the last 7 full days, 11 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 27 September 2026.

Does Vanilla Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 214, with 201 as the lowest. At its peak it held 91,547 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 1,597 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Vanilla Server located?

There is no region from Vanilla Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 151.177.8.19:28015.

Which Rust version is Vanilla Server on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Vanilla Server runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Vanilla Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began. 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 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for Vanilla Server: its wipes happen at irregular times. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 4 days 15 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Vanilla Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1327067640, the map on Vanilla Server is procedural and 3,800 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Vanilla Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Vanilla Server?

Enter client.connect 151.177.8.19:28015 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 mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp3
Max players Slots: 3.
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 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.

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.