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

Online EU 188.90.204.231:28020 checked 12m ago

2x monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 6
Rank#2,299top 10% · #883 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246812:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 30% 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 7h. The force wipe · high confidence

10
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02.557.510+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 10, 46 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:10 UTC FW27d ago 10 – running 2

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.

Lists and tags

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

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5: 2x Rust servers, live, European Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, 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 PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

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

[EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 takes #2,299 on seven-day player hours, a top 10% spot overall and #883 across Europe.

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

0 players are on [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 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 6. Look at 19:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 5 players on average.

Server details

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

Right now, [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

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

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 59, and it never went below 48. The world carried as many as 168,739 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 5,001 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

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

[EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 uses its EU tag to list 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. Connect at 188.90.204.231:28020.

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

On Windows, [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

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

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 10 players. 46 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 17 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

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

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1277401545 is what [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

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

Going by its name, [EU] Rusty Skull PVE | 2x | No Decay | No BP Wipe | Max 5 runs 2x gather. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. 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.

Join up

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

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 188.90.204.231:28020. 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,^p,^m,EU,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it 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.