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The Stray Whale27.10

Online 185.189.255.247:35300 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 200 slots 0% full −1−50%against this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 5
Rank#3,930top 18%
Region–no continent published · group 10 max
Last wipe1h agomonthly schedule
Next wipe9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
0246819:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 16:31 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
010020030040019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 16:31 UTCWIPE

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 18% 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 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

6.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
50%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
75%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
37d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 20 OctFri 16 OctThu 1 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 14 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 27 Oct, 15:31 UTC2h ago – – running 1
Tue 20 Oct, 01:35 UTC7d ago 1 – – 0
Fri 16 Oct, 14:47 UTC11d ago 5 held half 3.5 days 2
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 8 held half 14.9 days 0
Fri 25 Sep, 12:10 UTC32d ago 9 halved by day 2 6.2 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

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Stray Whale27.10?

You'll find The Stray Whale27.10 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

What do the server tags on The Stray Whale27.10 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Stray Whale27.10: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp200 (Max players): Slots: 200; ts10 (Group limit): No team can exceed 10 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does The Stray Whale27.10 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place The Stray Whale27.10 at #3,930, in the top 18% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on The Stray Whale27.10 right now?

The Stray Whale27.10 is holding 1 players, with 200 slots in total. Peak for the week was 5, against an average of 1 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 15:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

Server details

Is The Stray Whale27.10 online, and how reliable is it?

The Stray Whale27.10 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 159, a 95% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does The Stray Whale27.10 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 154, with 111 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 100,984 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,549 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is The Stray Whale27.10 located?

There is no region from The Stray Whale27.10. 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 185.189.255.247:35300.

Which Rust version is The Stray Whale27.10 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Stray Whale27.10 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on The Stray Whale27.10 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 5 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 14 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 75% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on The Stray Whale27.10?

Wipes on The Stray Whale27.10 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 1 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does The Stray Whale27.10 run?

Generated by the game with seed 2034431724, the map on The Stray Whale27.10 is procedural and 4,250 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on The Stray Whale27.10?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Stray Whale27.10. A group holds at most 10 players. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join The Stray Whale27.10?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 185.189.255.247:35300. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts10,^o

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp200
Max players Slots: 200.
ts10
Group limit No team can exceed 10 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

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.