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Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published PLAGUE Onlineright now +1since yesterday
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PLAGUE

Online 157.85.90.224:28061 checked 3h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 50 slots 2% full +1against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,897top 31%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe3h agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
00.511.5221:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 16:49 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
010020030040021:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 16:49 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 25 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 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.

3.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 28 Oct, 16:49 UTC3h ago – – running 0
Sun 25 Oct, 10:49 UTC3d ago 2 held half 3.2 days 2

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 PLAGUE?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include PLAGUE: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

What do the server tags on PLAGUE mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from PLAGUE: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does PLAGUE rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place PLAGUE at #6,897, in the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on PLAGUE right now?

PLAGUE is holding 1 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is PLAGUE online, and how reliable is it?

PLAGUE is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 14 hours ago. The last 2 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 48 out of 48 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 25 October 2026.

Does PLAGUE run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 213, and it never went below 154. Entities reached a maximum of 47,045: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,710 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is PLAGUE located?

No region is published by PLAGUE. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 157.85.90.224:28061.

Which Rust version is PLAGUE on?

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

Wipe days

What happens on PLAGUE when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on PLAGUE?

Too few wipes are on record for PLAGUE to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 3 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does PLAGUE run?

The procedural map on PLAGUE measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 295700. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on PLAGUE?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on PLAGUE. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. 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.

How to join

How do I join PLAGUE?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 157.85.90.224:28061. 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,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$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.