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Rusty Moose |US Mondays|

Online NA 205.178.168.77:28010 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 296/ 325 slots 91% full −100−25%against this time yesterday
7-day average193peak 889
Rank#54top 0.2% · #8 in NA
RegionNANA · group 12 max
Last wipe1d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe5d 7hMon 2 Nov, 18:59 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
02505007501k12:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00Wiped Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
01020304012:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00Wiped Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 UTCWIPE

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 0.2% of all ranked servers, top 0.4% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Monday 2 November, 18:59 UTC, in 5d 7h. Every Monday at 18:59 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
86%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
881
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

5d 7hMon 2 Nov, 18:59 UTC
8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
12d 7hMon 9 Nov, 18:59 UTC
19d 7hMon 16 Nov, 18:59 UTC
26d 7hMon 23 Nov, 18:59 UTC
33d 7hMon 30 Nov, 18:59 UTC
36d 7hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
40d 7hMon 7 Dec, 18:59 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 19 OctMon 12 OctMon 5 Oct
02505007501k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 843, 5 hours in, with 232 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 26 Oct, 18:59 UTC1d ago – – running 191
Mon 19 Oct, 18:59 UTC8d ago 843+232 queue halved by day 2 7 days 170
Mon 12 Oct, 18:59 UTC15d ago 990+549 queue halved by day 2 7 days 258
Mon 5 Oct, 18:58 UTC22d ago 810+183 queue halved by day 2 7 days 125
Sun 4 Oct, 23:41 UTC23d ago 810+183 queue – 0.8 days 46
Mon 21 Sep, 19:01 UTC36d ago 888+380 queue halved by day 2 13.2 days 142
Mon 14 Sep, 19:01 UTC43d ago 886+1 queue halved by day 2 7 days 36

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

Who runs Rusty Moose |US Mondays|?

Rusty Moose |US Mondays| and 28 other servers we track publish a moose.gg hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Moose |US Mondays|: Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 100+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| lists these tags: 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; mp325 (Max players): Slots: 325; ts12 (Group limit): No team can exceed 12 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 |US Mondays| rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| sits at #54, inside the top 0.2% of ranked servers and at #8 in North America.

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

The current tally at Rusty Moose |US Mondays|: 296 players across 325 slots. Peak for the week was 889, against an average of 193 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 20:00 UTC, averaging 879 players.

Server facts

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

Right now, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 19 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Moose |US Mondays| run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 28 server fps, with a low of 17. The world carried as many as 343,351 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 12,835 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Mondays| located?

In North America, Rusty Moose |US Mondays| lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 205.178.168.77:28010.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rusty Moose |US Mondays| runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 881 players at their busiest. With 232 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 5 hours after the wipe. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.

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

Rusty Moose |US Mondays| keeps to a every Monday at 18:59 UTC wipe rhythm. Monday 2 November at 18:59 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. 40 hours is when the present world was made. Weekly is the wipe rhythm its tags set out.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Mondays| run?

The procedural map on Rusty Moose |US Mondays| measures 4,500 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. The map name, as written, is Moose Maps.

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

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Moose |US Mondays|. Teams can reach 12 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Mondays|?

Enter client.connect 205.178.168.77:28010 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://moose.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp325,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp325
Max players Slots: 325.
ts12
Group limit No team can exceed 12 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly It wipes weekly.

Difficulty

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

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.