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[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1

Online OC 158.140.244.251:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 75 slots 1% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 11
Rank#1,694top 8% · #42 in OC
RegionOCOC · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, top 20% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:17 UTC FW26d ago 4 – 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 [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1: Oceania Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 mean?

These are the tags [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp75 (Max players): There are 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 sits at #1,694, inside the top 8% of ranked servers and at #42 in Oceania.

How many players are on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 right now?

The current tally at [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1: 1 players across 75 slots. Averaging 3 players across seven days, it topped out at 11. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 07:00 UTC, averaging 9 players.

About the server

Is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 online, and how reliable is it?

[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is live at the moment. About 4 minutes ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 51 server fps, with a low of 18. The world carried as many as 107,598 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,653 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 located?

[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 uses its OC tag to list itself in Oceania. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 158.140.244.251:28015.

Which Rust version is [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 on?

On Linux, [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 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 [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 5 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?

[NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 1 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 run?

Generated by the game with seed 420730549, the map on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 is procedural and 4,250 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. Oxide plugins power it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 158.140.244.251:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/27dvKFJXGX.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The mode is vanilla survival.
mp75
Max players There are 75 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.

Region

OC
Oceania The server browser lists it under Oceania.

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.