The West Coast
Online NA 162.220.160.28:28080 checked 13m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 29% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 31 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC FW27d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The West Coast?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The West Coast: 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 Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on The West Coast mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from The West Coast: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp160 (Max players): It has 160 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does The West Coast rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, The West Coast sits at #3,277, inside the top 15% of ranked servers and at #534 in North America.
How many players are on The West Coast right now?
The West Coast is holding 1 players, with 160 slots in total. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. Look at 07:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.
Server details
Is The West Coast online, and how reliable is it?
The West Coast is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 14 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does The West Coast run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 92, with 38 as the lowest. At its peak it held 72,848 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 4,881 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is The West Coast located?
The West Coast uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 162.220.160.28:28080.
Which Rust version is The West Coast on?
On Windows, The West Coast runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe days
What happens on The West Coast when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 31 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on The West Coast?
The West Coast 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. 27 days 8 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Map and rules
Which map does The West Coast run?
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1337 is what The West Coast runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. On the map name: Death Island.
What are the rules and settings on The West Coast?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on The West Coast. 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 is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
How to join
How do I join The West Coast?
Enter client.connect 162.220.160.28:28080 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.