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THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP

Online 172.240.229.71:28085 checked 1h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 100 slots 1% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 6
Rank#2,766top 12%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe24d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 12% of all ranked servers. 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 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 16 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 11:52 UTC24d ago 7 – 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

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP at #2,766, within the top 12% of ranked servers.

How many players are on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP right now?

The current tally at THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP: 1 players across 100 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 6. Look at 06:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 3 players on average.

About the server

Is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is up and running. About 4 days 19 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 56 server fps, with a low of 49. Entities reached a maximum of 135,811: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,859 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP located?

No region is published by THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 172.240.229.71:28085.

Which Rust version is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP on?

On Windows, THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 7 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 16 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 24 days 6 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP run?

Generated by the game with seed 48224, the map on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. 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 THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?

Enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28085 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/kxvhS3Y.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players Slots: 100.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

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

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.