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Rusty Moose |US Mini|

Online NA 168.100.162.253:28010 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 14/ 150 slots 9% full −4−20%against this time yesterday
7-day average56peak 245
Rank#316top 1% · #61 in NA
RegionNANA · group 5 max
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe11hThu 29 Oct, 18:59 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
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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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, top 3% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:59 UTC, in 11h. Every Thursday at 18:59 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
199
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

11hThu 29 Oct, 18:59 UTC
7d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 11hThu 12 Nov, 18:59 UTC
21d 11hThu 19 Nov, 18:59 UTC
28d 11hThu 26 Nov, 18:59 UTC
35d 11hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 11hThu 10 Dec, 18:59 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 245, 6 hours in, with 14 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 18:59 UTC6d ago 245+14 queue – running 21
Thu 15 Oct, 18:59 UTC13d ago 108 halved by day 3 7 days 22
Thu 8 Oct, 18:59 UTC20d ago 243+10 queue halved by day 2 7 days 31
Thu 1 Oct, 18:01 UTC FW27d ago 153 halved by day 2 7 days 6
Thu 24 Sep, 18:59 UTC34d ago 257+12 queue halved by day 3 7 days 19
Thu 17 Sep, 18:59 UTC41d ago 90 halved by day 2 7 days 9

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

Who runs Rusty Moose |US Mini|?

Rusty Moose |US Mini| and 28 other servers we track publish a moose.gg hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Moose |US Mini|?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Moose |US Mini|: Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |US Mini| mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rusty Moose |US Mini|: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp150 (Max players): It has 150 slots; ts5 (Group limit): No team can exceed 5 players; 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 is listed; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rusty Moose |US Mini| rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Moose |US Mini| sits at #316, inside the top 1% of ranked servers and at #61 in North America.

How many players are on Rusty Moose |US Mini| right now?

Rusty Moose |US Mini| is holding 14 players, with 150 slots in total. Peak for the week was 245, against an average of 56 players. Look at 01:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 28 players on average.

Server details

Is Rusty Moose |US Mini| online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rusty Moose |US Mini| is up and running. About 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Moose |US Mini| run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 30 server fps, with a low of 29. Entities reached a maximum of 122,098: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,536 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Mini| located?

Rusty Moose |US Mini| 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. You'll find it at 168.100.162.253:28010.

Which Rust version is Rusty Moose |US Mini| on?

On Linux, Rusty Moose |US Mini| runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on Rusty Moose |US Mini| when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 199 players. 6 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 14 more were queued. 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 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |US Mini|?

Wipes on Rusty Moose |US Mini| follow a every Thursday at 18:59 UTC pattern. The next wipe is pencilled in for Thursday 29 October at 18:59 UTC. 6 days 12 hours is when the present world was made. The tags say wipes happen every week.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Mini| run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1337 is what Rusty Moose |US Mini| runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Moose Maps is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |US Mini|?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rusty Moose |US Mini|. A group holds at most 5 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Mini|?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.162.253:28010. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://moose.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts5

On Rust Pop Watch

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp150
Max players It has 150 slots.
ts5
Group limit No team can exceed 5 players.
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 is listed.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Wipes happen every week.

Difficulty

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

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.