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Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly

Online NA 167.114.158.11:28015 checked 5m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 125 slots 2% full +2against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#4,866top 22% · #830 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5217:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

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 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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 22% of all ranked servers, top 45% 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 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 2hThu 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, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW27d 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

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Who runs Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly?

Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly and 3 other servers we track publish a hillsiderust.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly?

You'll find Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly mean?

These are the tags Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp125 (Max players): It has 125 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to get in; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly sits at #4,866, inside the top 22% of ranked servers and at #830 in North America.

How many players are on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly right now?

2 players are on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly at the moment, out of 125 slots. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. Look at 01:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

About the server

Is Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 202 server fps, with a low of 153. Entities reached a maximum of 134,453: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,452 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly located?

In North America, Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 167.114.158.11:28015.

Which Rust version is Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly?

Wipes on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 22 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly run?

Generated by the game with seed 9032026, the map on Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly is procedural and 4,500 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 Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly?

No gather rate appears in the name of Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. You need Rust's premium status to get in. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Hillside Exiles | Survival | Modded | Monthly?

Enter client.connect 167.114.158.11:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You need Rust's premium status to get in. For more, see https://hillsiderust.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp125
Max players It has 125 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to get in.
^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.