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Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather

Online NA 160.202.165.14:28025 checked 9m ago

1x monthly wipes moddedcarbon
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#13,858top 62% · #1416 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0000:0009:0018:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304005:0014:0000:0009:0018:0003:00

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 5 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct20 Oct25 Oct30 Oct

Top 62% of all ranked servers, top 76% in NA. 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 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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, 46 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 04:42 UTC25d ago 2 – 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

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 1x.

What do the server tags on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather mean?

These are the tags Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather rank against other Rust servers?

Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather takes #13,858 on seven-day player hours, a top 62% spot overall and #1,416 across North America.

How many players are on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather right now?

The current tally at Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.

About the server

Is Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather online, and how reliable is it?

Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 18 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 5 October 2026.

Does Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 30 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 103,655: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,818 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather located?

Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 160.202.165.14:28025.

Which Rust version is Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. 46 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather?

Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 25 days. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather run?

Generated by the game with seed 2362352, the map on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather is procedural and 4,250 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather?

Gather comes at 1x on Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather, according to its name. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join Dead Before Dawn | PvE/PvP Zones | Night PvP | 1x/2x Gather?

Enter client.connect 160.202.165.14:28025 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits under North America.

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.