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Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL

Online EU 163.5.63.121:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#4,872top 22% · #1673 in EU
RegionEUEU · group duo
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe21hThu 29 Oct, 19:06 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5222:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 13 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
15k10k15k20k13 Oct16 Oct19 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 22% of all ranked servers, top 57% in EU, and #254 of the duo servers (top 61%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 19:06 UTC, in 21h. Every Thursday at 19:06 UTC · low confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 4

Coming wipes

21hThu 29 Oct, 19:06 UTC
7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 21hThu 12 Nov, 19:06 UTC
21d 21hThu 19 Nov, 19:06 UTC
28d 21hThu 26 Nov, 19:06 UTC
35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 21hThu 10 Dec, 19:06 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 45 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 19:06 UTC6d ago 3 – running 1
Thu 15 Oct, 19:05 UTC13d ago 3 halved by day 4 7 days 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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Quick answers

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL: 2x Rust servers, live, Duo servers, live, European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL mean?

For the server browser, Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts2 (Group limit): Teams cap at 2 players; 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; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL sits at #4,872, inside the top 22% of ranked servers and at #1,673 in Europe. It comes in at #254 among duo servers.

How many players are on Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL right now?

The current tally at Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL: 0 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. Look at 10:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.

About the server

Is Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 October 2026.

Does Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 151 server fps, with a low of 110. The world carried as many as 72,636 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,804 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL located?

With its EU tag, Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL lists itself in Europe. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 163.5.63.121:28015.

Which Rust version is Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL on?

On Linux, Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 45 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 4.

What is the wipe schedule on Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL?

Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL keeps to a every Thursday at 19:06 UTC wipe rhythm. The next wipe is pencilled in for Thursday 29 October at 19:06 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 2 hours. The tags say wipes happen every week.

Rules and settings

Which map does Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL run?

The procedural map on Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 169782610. 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 Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL?

The name says it: Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL gathers at 2x. The cap on groups is 2 players (duo). survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Winterforge | [EU] Solo/Duo 2x | Weekly Wipe | QoL?

Enter client.connect 163.5.63.121:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://winterforge.top.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts2

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts2
Group limit Teams cap at 2 players.
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.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly It wipes weekly.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it under Europe.

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.