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Vulture Sanctuary

Online 156.38.153.242:10160 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,943top 31%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe11d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75104:0013:0023:0007:0016:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608004:0013:0023:0007:0016:0001:00

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 8 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct17 Oct21 Oct26 Oct30 Oct

Top 31% of all ranked servers. 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 18 Oct, 08:18 UTC11d ago 1 – 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

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Vulture Sanctuary?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Vulture Sanctuary: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters 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 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Vulture Sanctuary mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Vulture Sanctuary: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp10 (Max players): There are 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. 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 Vulture Sanctuary rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #6,943 puts Vulture Sanctuary in the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Vulture Sanctuary right now?

The current tally at Vulture Sanctuary: 0 players across 10 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Look at 15:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

Server details

Is Vulture Sanctuary online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Vulture Sanctuary is online. About 7 days 7 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 8 October 2026.

Does Vulture Sanctuary run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 56, and it never went below 35. The world carried as many as 67,997 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,134 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Vulture Sanctuary located?

No region is published by Vulture Sanctuary. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 156.38.153.242:10160.

Which Rust version is Vulture Sanctuary on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on Vulture Sanctuary when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 3 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Vulture Sanctuary?

The record of Vulture Sanctuary'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 11 days 18 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Vulture Sanctuary run?

Generated by the game with seed 1700582233, the map on Vulture Sanctuary is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Vulture Sanctuary?

No gather rate appears in the name of Vulture Sanctuary. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Vulture Sanctuary?

Enter client.connect 156.38.153.242:10160 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://server-svqdnsdm.rusters.io.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp10
Max players There are 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.