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[US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly

Online 174.57.83.70:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,399top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123411:0020:0005:0014:0023:0008:00

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 16 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k16 Oct18 Oct21 Oct23 Oct26 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly?

You'll find [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly mean?

These are the tags [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): There are 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs166235 (Build): Game build: 166235; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; rustmaps (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,399 puts [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly right now?

[US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly is holding 0 players, with 10 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 days 17 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 16 October 2026.

Does [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 127, with 83 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 89,600 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 4,482 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly located?

Its name points to North America, although [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly publishes no region 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 174.57.83.70:28015.

Which Rust version is [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly on?

On Windows, [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166235. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly?

Too few wipes are on record for [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 28 days 16 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly run?

The custom map on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly measures 4,000, and its published file can be downloaded from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly?

Gather comes at 2x on [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly, according to its name. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join [US] Helix 2x Rust Staging | Vanilla | Weekly?

Enter client.connect 174.57.83.70:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166235,ts8,^o^z,rustmaps

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players There are 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs166235
Build Game build: 166235.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Other

rustmaps
Custom tag The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust.

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.