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RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET

Online EU 193.25.252.119:28016 checked 19m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 42/ 400 slots 10% full −275−87%against this time yesterday
7-day average49peak 389
Rank#365top 2% · #190 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe1d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe5d 14hWed 4 Nov, 15:01 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
010020030040001:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 15:01 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
01020304001:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00Wiped Wed 28 Oct, 15:01 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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers, top 7% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Wednesday 4 November, 15:01 UTC, in 5d 14h. Every Wednesday at 15:01 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
421
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

Coming wipes

5d 14hWed 4 Nov, 15:01 UTC
6d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
12d 14hWed 11 Nov, 15:01 UTC
19d 14hWed 18 Nov, 15:01 UTC
26d 14hWed 25 Nov, 15:01 UTC
33d 14hWed 2 Dec, 15:01 UTC
34d 18hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
40d 14hWed 9 Dec, 15:01 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 21 OctWed 14 OctWed 7 Oct
0200400600800+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 391, 0 hours in, with 81 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 28 Oct, 15:01 UTC1d ago – – running 110
Wed 21 Oct, 15:01 UTC8d ago 391+81 queue halved by day 1 7 days 133
Wed 14 Oct, 15:07 UTC15d ago 480+83 queue halved by day 1 7 days 109
Wed 7 Oct, 15:39 UTC22d ago 391+103 queue halved by day 1 7 days 267
Thu 1 Oct, 17:58 UTC FW28d ago 173 halved by day 1 5.9 days 170
Wed 30 Sep, 15:01 UTC29d ago 477+68 queue – 1.1 days 72
Wed 23 Sep, 15:01 UTC36d ago 393+125 queue halved by day 1 7 days 73
Wed 16 Sep, 15:02 UTC43d ago 388+41 queue halved by day 1 7 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

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Lists and tags

Who runs RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET?

The same operator most likely runs RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET and 10 other servers we track, since all publish a rustvikings.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET?

You'll find RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average.

What do the server tags on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET mean?

These are the tags RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET sits at #365, inside the top 2% of ranked servers and at #190 in Europe.

How many players are on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET right now?

The current tally at RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET: 42 players across 400 slots. Peak for the week was 389, against an average of 49 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 17:00 UTC, averaging 388 players.

Server facts

Is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 23 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 143, a 85% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 29, and it never went below 15. Entities reached a maximum of 173,785: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 7,408 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET located?

RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET 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. You'll find it at 193.25.252.119:28016.

Which Rust version is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 421 players at their busiest. With 81 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 0 hours after the wipe. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET?

The wipe rhythm on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET is every Wednesday at 15:01 UTC. The next wipe is pencilled in for Wednesday 4 November at 15:01 UTC. 33 hours is when the present world was made. Weekly is the wipe rhythm its tags set out.

The rules

Which map does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET run?

Generated by the game with seed 354085, the map on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET is procedural and 3,750 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Oxide plugins power it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Wednesdays | FULLWIPE 28/10 16:00CET?

Enter client.connect 193.25.252.119:28016 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://rustvikings.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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 A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.

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.