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[EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5

Online EU 188.90.204.231:28015 checked 10m ago

2x monthly wipes moddedoxide
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full −2−100%against this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 8
Rank#2,423top 11% · #936 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0005:0011:0017:0000:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608023:0005:0011:0017:0000:0006:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 32% in EU. 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 7d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 10hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 13 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW27d ago 3 – running 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

Who runs [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5?

[EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 publishes a rustyskull-rustserver.com hostname, and 1 other server we track does too, so the same operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5: 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: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 mean?

These are the tags [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 rank against other Rust servers?

[EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 takes #2,423 on seven-day player hours, a top 11% spot overall and #936 across Europe.

How many players are on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 right now?

0 players are on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaging 2 players across seven days, it topped out at 8. Look at 17:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 3 players on average.

Server facts

Is [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 23 hours ago. It was up 89% of the time over the last 7 full days, 150 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 60, with 42 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 155,140: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,586 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 located?

With its EU tag, [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 lists itself in Europe. 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 188.90.204.231:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 on?

On Windows, [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. 13 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5?

[EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 11 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 run?

Generated by the game with seed 63790723, the map on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5?

Gather comes at 2x on [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5, according to its name. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Rusty Skull | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 188.90.204.231:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/Uf649YcSgj.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.