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Winterwunderland

Online 157.85.87.43:28449 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 12 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#7,965top 36%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75108:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510008:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

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 3 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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct8 Oct14 Oct19 Oct25 Oct30 Oct

Top 36% 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.

5
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 5, 7 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 12:45 UTC25d ago 5 – 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 Winterwunderland?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Winterwunderland: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Winterwunderland mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Winterwunderland: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp12 (Max players): There are 12 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. 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 Winterwunderland rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Winterwunderland at #7,965, within the top 36% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Winterwunderland right now?

0 players are on Winterwunderland at the moment, out of 12 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 3. Look at 10:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.

Server details

Is Winterwunderland online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Winterwunderland is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 days 6 hours ago. 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 3 October 2026.

Does Winterwunderland run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 77, with 42 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 101,762 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,863 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Winterwunderland located?

There is no region from Winterwunderland. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 157.85.87.43:28449.

Which Rust version is Winterwunderland on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Winterwunderland runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Winterwunderland when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 5 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 7 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Winterwunderland?

Winterwunderland's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. 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. Its current world has been live for 25 days 13 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Winterwunderland run?

The procedural map on Winterwunderland measures 4,000 and comes from the game with seed 509261183. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Winterwunderland?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Winterwunderland. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Winterwunderland?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 157.85.87.43:28449. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp12,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp12
Max players There are 12 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.