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Rusty Moose |US Small|

Online NA 205.178.168.59:28010 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 8/ 200 slots 4% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average26peak 62
Rank#595top 3% · #96 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 3% of all ranked servers, top 5% 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 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

507
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0200400600800+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 507, 4 hours in, with 184 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW27d ago 507+184 queue – running 39

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

Who runs Rusty Moose |US Small|?

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

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Moose |US Small|?

You'll find Rusty Moose |US Small| on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on Rusty Moose |US Small| mean?

These are the tags Rusty Moose |US Small| 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp200 (Max players): Slots: 200; 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): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $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; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Rusty Moose |US Small| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |US Small| takes #595 on seven-day player hours, a top 3% spot overall and #96 across North America.

How many players are on Rusty Moose |US Small| right now?

8 players are on Rusty Moose |US Small| at the moment, out of 200 slots. Averaging 26 players across seven days, it topped out at 62. Look at 00:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 30 players on average.

Server details

Is Rusty Moose |US Small| online, and how reliable is it?

Rusty Moose |US Small| is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 23 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Moose |US Small| run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 30 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 178,831: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,610 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Small| located?

Rusty Moose |US Small| uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 205.178.168.59:28010.

Which Rust version is Rusty Moose |US Small| on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rusty Moose |US Small| runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on Rusty Moose |US Small| when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 507 players. With 184 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 4 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Moose |US Small|?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Rusty Moose |US Small|, tied to 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 20 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Small| run?

A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1337 is what Rusty Moose |US Small| runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Moose Maps.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Moose |US Small|?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rusty Moose |US Small|. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Small|?

Enter client.connect 205.178.168.59:28010 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://moose.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp200
Max players Slots: 200.
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 The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$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

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.