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[PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE

Online 203.16.163.211:24620 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,310top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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 2 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k2 Oct7 Oct13 Oct18 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 0h. The force wipe

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE?

You'll find [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and The roleplay set, by the numbers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; 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): 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): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^r (Roleplay): Roleplay is the focus here; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^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. 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 [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,310 puts [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE right now?

0 players are on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE at the moment, out of 40 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

About the server

Is [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 34 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 2 October 2026.

Does [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 118, with 85 as the lowest. At its peak it held 124,556 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 5,222 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE located?

No region tag comes from [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE, but its name points to 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 203.16.163.211:24620.

Which Rust version is [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE?

The estimate for the next wipe on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE rests on 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 2 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE run?

The procedural map on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE measures 4,096 and comes from the game with seed 1. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE?

The name of [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. roleplay is the game mode, jobs and towns under roleplay rules. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [PL/EN] Rust Buddies PvE?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 203.16.163.211:24620. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^r,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
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 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 Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay Roleplay is the focus here.
^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

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.

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.