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Celebrity profile · EU

Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|

Online EU 205.178.168.205:28010 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 232/ 250 slots 93% full +110+90%against this time yesterday
7-day average215peak 442
Rank#45top 0.2% · #32 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 12 max
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
010020030040012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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
110020030040020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 0.2% of all ranked servers, top 1% 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

891
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

02505007501k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 891, 0 hours in, with 545 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:01 UTC FW27d ago 891+545 queue – running 130

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.

Server tags

Who runs Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|?

The same operator most likely runs Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| and 28 other servers we track, since all publish a moose.gg hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|: European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 200+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| mean?

These are the tags Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| publishes for the browser: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp250 (Max players): There are 250 slots; ts12 (Group limit): No team can exceed 12 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| takes #45 on seven-day player hours, a top 0.2% spot overall and #32 across Europe.

How many players are on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| right now?

The current tally at Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|: 232 players across 250 slots. Averaging 215 players across seven days, it topped out at 442. Look at 17:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 362 players on average.

Server details

Is Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 1 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 30 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 449,980 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 14,114 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| located?

Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| uses its EU tag to list itself in Europe. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 205.178.168.205:28010.

Which Rust version is Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 891 players. With 545 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 0 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|, tied to 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 17 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| run?

The procedural map on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly| measures 4,750 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. On the map name: Moose Maps.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|. Teams can reach 12 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. 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.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 205.178.168.205:28010. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://moose.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts12

On Rust Pop Watch

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp250
Max players There are 250 slots.
ts12
Group limit No team can exceed 12 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
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

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is 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.