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Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes

Online EU · uk1 168.100.161.198:28014 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 789/ 850 slots 93% full −10−1%against this time yesterday
7-day average511peak 1,309
Rank#4top 0.1% · #4 in EU
Regionuk1EU · group 16 max
Last wipe5d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe9d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02505007501k18:0003:0012:0021:0006:0015:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304018:0003:0012:0021:0006:0015:00

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
120040060080020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 0.1% of all ranked servers, top 0.1% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1,227
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

Coming wipes

9d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
22d 22hThu 19 Nov, 15:59 UTC
37d 1hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 1 OctThu 24 Sep
05001k1.5k2k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1,309, 4 hours in, with 113 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:59 UTC5d ago 1,309+113 queue – running 243
Thu 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC FW25d ago 1,349+359 queue halved by day 10 20.9 days 44
Thu 24 Sep, 15:59 UTC33d ago 1,022 halved by day 4 7.1 days 185

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

Who runs Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

A vitalrust.com hostname is published by Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes and by 3 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes: 2x Rust servers, live, European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Modded ^z; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 2x; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 200+ on average.

What do the server tags on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp850 (Max players): There are 850 slots; ts16 (Group limit): No team can exceed 16 players; 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; $ruk1 (Region code): Region code: uk1; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe; jp14 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes sits at #4, inside the top 0.1% of ranked servers and at #4 in Europe.

How many players are on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes right now?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is holding 789 players, with 850 slots in total. Averaging 511 players across seven days, it topped out at 1,309. Look at 18:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 974 players on average.

Server facts

Is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is up and running. About 9 hours 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. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 30. Entities reached a maximum of 1,099,946: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 16,055 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes located?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes uses the EU tag to list itself in Europe, and the region code is uk1. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 168.100.161.198:28014.

Which Rust version is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes on?

On Linux, Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes 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 Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1,227 players. With 113 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 4 hours after the wipe. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. The crowd fell under half by day 7 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes keeps to a every 4 weeks on Thursday at 15:59 UTC wipe rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 5 days 1 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run?

The procedural map on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes measures 5,000 and comes from the game with seed 1050663377. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Vital Rust Custom is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Gather comes at 2x on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, according to its name. A group holds at most 16 players. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.198:28014. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/HYtp3nV6Yd.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp850,ptrak,$ruk1,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts16,^z,jp14

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp850
Max players There are 850 slots.
ts16
Group limit No team can exceed 16 players.
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.
$ruk1
Region code Region code: uk1.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Region

EU
Europe In the server browser it sits under Europe.

Other

jp14
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.