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Nordrend

Offline 188.187.188.201:28015 checked 1d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,399top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe17d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0014:0018:0022:0002:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040010:0014:0018:0022:0002:0006:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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 9h. The force wipe · high confidence

6.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

8d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 9hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 10 OctSun 4 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 35 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 10 Oct, 21:40 UTC17d ago 1 – running 0
Sun 4 Oct, 20:18 UTC23d ago 1 halved by day 2 6.1 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 Nordrend?

You'll find Nordrend on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Nordrend mean?

For the server browser, Nordrend lists these tags: 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; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $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; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs; jp0 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Nordrend rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Nordrend at #15,399, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Nordrend right now?

Offline now, Nordrend was last spotted 27 hours ago. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is Nordrend online, and how reliable is it?

Nordrend shows as offline, last spotted 27 hours ago. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 147, a 88% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Nordrend run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 235, and it never went below 226. The world carried as many as 69,276 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,494 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Nordrend located?

No region is published by Nordrend. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 188.187.188.201:28015.

Which Rust version is Nordrend on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 is the version Nordrend runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Nordrend when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 35 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 2 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Nordrend?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Nordrend, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 17 days 12 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does Nordrend run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 12345 is what Nordrend runs, made by the game. 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 Nordrend?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Nordrend. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins are running on it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Nordrend?

Enter client.connect 188.187.188.201:28015 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://nordrend.gamestores.app.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,jp0,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^v,gmrust,cs166652,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.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs166652
Build The game build is 166652.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$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.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Other

jp0
Custom tag Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it.

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.