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The Maine II

Online NA 198.73.57.150:28035 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 7
Rank#2,989top 13% · #499 in NA
RegionNANA · group 12 max
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 13% of all ranked servers, top 27% in NA. 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

10
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

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 10, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:48 UTC FW27d ago 10 – 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Maine II?

You'll find The Maine II on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on The Maine II mean?

For the server browser, The Maine II lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts12 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 12; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to get in; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does The Maine II rank against other Rust servers?

The Maine II takes #2,989 on seven-day player hours, a top 13% spot overall and #499 across North America.

How many players are on The Maine II right now?

The current tally at The Maine II: 0 players across 100 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 7. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 23:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is The Maine II online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, The Maine II is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does The Maine II run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 110, and it never went below 88. Entities reached a maximum of 121,039: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,272 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is The Maine II located?

With its NA tag, The Maine II lists itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 198.73.57.150:28035.

Which Rust version is The Maine II on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Maine II runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on The Maine II when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 10 players. 5 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on The Maine II?

Wipes on The Maine II come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 27 days 14 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does The Maine II run?

Generated by the game with seed 1484130, the map on The Maine II is procedural and 4,250 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on The Maine II?

The name of The Maine II says nothing about gather rate. A group holds at most 12 players. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. The plugin count is Oxide. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. You need Rust's premium status to get in. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join The Maine II?

Enter client.connect 198.73.57.150:28035 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You need Rust's premium status to get in. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/wSz2Pa9.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts12,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts12
Group limit Each team is capped at 12.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to get in.
^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits under North America.

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.