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The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU

Online EU 178.104.136.95:28015 checked 2h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 5
Rank#3,726top 17% · #1381 in EU
RegionEUEU · group teams off
Last wipe5d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe1d 0hThu 29 Oct, 19:51 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 17% of all ranked servers, top 47% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 19:51 UTC, in 1d 0h. Every Thursday at 19:51 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
60%
crowd held
else halves by day 5.5

Coming wipes

1d 0hThu 29 Oct, 19:51 UTC
7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
15d 0hThu 12 Nov, 19:51 UTC
22d 0hThu 19 Nov, 19:51 UTC
29d 0hThu 26 Nov, 19:51 UTC
35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
43d 0hThu 10 Dec, 19:51 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 40 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 19:51 UTC5d ago 5 – running 0
Thu 15 Oct, 19:55 UTC12d ago 3 halved by day 6 7 days 2
Thu 8 Oct, 19:57 UTC19d ago 2 held half 7 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 19:55 UTC FW26d ago 3 held half 7 days 1
Thu 24 Sep, 19:54 UTC33d ago 4 held half 7 days 2
Thu 17 Sep, 19:54 UTC40d ago 4 halved by day 5 7 days 1

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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Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU: 2x Rust servers, live, European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU mean?

For the server browser, The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts0 (Group limit): You can't team up: teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU sits at #3,726, inside the top 17% of ranked servers and at #1,381 in Europe.

How many players are on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU right now?

The current tally at The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU: 0 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 5, against an average of 1 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 13:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

About the server

Is The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU online, and how reliable is it?

The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 60, and it never went below 48. The world carried as many as 51,421 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,361 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU located?

In Europe, The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU lists itself with its EU 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 178.104.136.95:28015.

Which Rust version is The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 3 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 40 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 60% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 5.5.

What is the wipe schedule on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU?

The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU keeps to a every Thursday at 19:51 UTC wipe rhythm. The next wipe is pencilled in for Thursday 29 October at 19:51 UTC. Its current world has been live for 5 days 23 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule that runs weekly.

The rules

Which map does The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU run?

Generated by the game with seed 1305801890, the map on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU is procedural and 3,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU?

Going by its name, The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU runs 2x gather. No group limit is published. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join The Rusty Knob | Solo | Chill | 2x | EU?

Enter client.connect 178.104.136.95:28015 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/7BukZQUnvG.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,EU,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts0,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp100
Max players Slots: 100.
ts0
Group limit You can't team up: teams are disabled.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^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.

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.