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RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST

Online EU 193.25.252.119:28046 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 400 slots 0% full −3−61%against this time yesterday
7-day average56peak 485
Rank#318top 1% · #163 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe5d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe1d 12hFri 30 Oct, 15:01 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, top 6% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Friday 30 October, 15:01 UTC, in 1d 12h. Every Friday at 15:01 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
483
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

Coming wipes

1d 12hFri 30 Oct, 15:01 UTC
7d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
8d 12hFri 6 Nov, 15:01 UTC
15d 12hFri 13 Nov, 15:01 UTC
22d 12hFri 20 Nov, 15:01 UTC
29d 12hFri 27 Nov, 15:01 UTC
35d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 12hFri 4 Dec, 15:01 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctFri 16 OctFri 9 Oct
0200400600800+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 485, 1 hours in, with 82 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 15:01 UTC5d ago 485+82 queue – running 137
Fri 16 Oct, 15:01 UTC12d ago 484+58 queue halved by day 1 7 days 122
Fri 9 Oct, 15:01 UTC19d ago 481+58 queue halved by day 1 7 days 88
Fri 2 Oct, 15:01 UTC26d ago 389+35 queue halved by day 1 7 days 46
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW27d ago 389+35 queue – 0.9 days 4
Fri 25 Sep, 15:01 UTC33d ago 486+58 queue halved by day 1 6.1 days 46
Fri 18 Sep, 15:01 UTC40d ago 390+36 queue halved by day 1 7 days 7

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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Server tags

Who runs RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST?

RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST and 10 other servers we track publish a rustvikings.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST: European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters 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 week; Average players: 50+ on average.

What do the server tags on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; 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.

The players

How does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST sits at #318, inside the top 1% of ranked servers and at #163 in Europe.

How many players are on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST right now?

RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST is holding 2 players, with 400 slots in total. Averaging 56 players across seven days, it topped out at 485. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 21:00 UTC, averaging 16 players.

About the server

Is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 12 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 157,613 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,606 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST located?

RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST 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 193.25.252.119:28046.

Which Rust version is RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 483 players. With 82 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 1 hours after the wipe. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST?

RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST keeps to a every Friday at 15:01 UTC wipe rhythm. Friday 30 October at 15:01 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. 5 days 11 hours is when the present world was made. The tags say wipes happen every week.

Rules and settings

Which map does RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST run?

The procedural map on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 818229. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. Oxide plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join RustVikings | Solo/Duo | Fridays | FULLWIPE 23/10 17:00CEST?

Enter client.connect 193.25.252.119:28046 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at 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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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 Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

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.