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Vanilla Rust PVE

Online 173.225.104.251:28080 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#3,332top 15%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe11d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

14.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
6
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
50%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 9, 21 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 23:04 UTC11d ago 9 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 18:32 UTC FW26d ago 3 held half 14.2 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:45 UTC40d ago 6 halved by day 7 14 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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Vanilla Rust PVE?

You'll find Vanilla Rust PVE on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Vanilla Rust PVE mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Vanilla Rust PVE: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Vanilla Rust PVE rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #3,332 puts Vanilla Rust PVE in the top 15% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Vanilla Rust PVE right now?

Vanilla Rust PVE is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

Server facts

Is Vanilla Rust PVE online, and how reliable is it?

Vanilla Rust PVE is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Vanilla Rust PVE run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 96 server fps, with a low of 73. The world carried as many as 104,387 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,295 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Vanilla Rust PVE located?

No region is published by Vanilla Rust PVE. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 173.225.104.251:28080.

Which Rust version is Vanilla Rust PVE on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Vanilla Rust PVE runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Vanilla Rust PVE when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 6 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 21 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 7.

What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Rust PVE?

No next wipe can be predicted for Vanilla Rust PVE: its wipes happen at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. Its current world has been live for 11 days 20 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Vanilla Rust PVE run?

The procedural map on Vanilla Rust PVE measures 4,250 and comes from the game with seed 1169124776. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Rust PVE?

The name of Vanilla Rust PVE says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Vanilla Rust PVE?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 173.225.104.251:28080. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/bspBJBHryg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.

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.