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Camera-shy: no banner published Rusty Moose |US Main| Onlineright now #27in Rust
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Rusty Moose |US Main|

Online NA 205.178.168.84:28010 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 32/ 250 slots 13% full −28−47%against this time yesterday
7-day average249peak 895
Rank#27top 0.1% · #4 in NA
RegionNANA · group 12 max
Last wipe5d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe1d 23hThu 29 Oct, 18:58 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
020040060080020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep5 Oct11 Oct16 Oct22 Oct27 Oct

Top 0.1% of all ranked servers, top 0.2% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:58 UTC, in 1d 23h. Every Thursday at 18:58 UTC · medium confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
857
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

1d 23hThu 29 Oct, 18:58 UTC
8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
15d 23hThu 12 Nov, 18:58 UTC
22d 23hThu 19 Nov, 18:58 UTC
29d 23hThu 26 Nov, 18:58 UTC
36d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
43d 23hThu 10 Dec, 18:58 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
05001k1.5k2k+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 895, 6 hours in, with 326 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 18:58 UTC5d ago 895+326 queue – running 218
Thu 15 Oct, 18:59 UTC12d ago 643+1 queue halved by day 2 7 days 112
Thu 8 Oct, 19:04 UTC19d ago 1,033+183 queue halved by day 2 7 days 252
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW26d ago – – 7 days 50

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 Main|?

The same operator most likely runs Rusty Moose |US Main| and 27 other servers we track, since all publish a moose.gg hostname.

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Moose |US Main|: Official Rust servers, watched, 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 and No plugins at all; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 200+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

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

These are the tags Rusty Moose |US Main| 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp250 (Max players): Slots: 250; ts12 (Group limit): Teams cap at 12 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; 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.

Player counts

How does Rusty Moose |US Main| rank against other Rust servers?

Rusty Moose |US Main| takes #27 on seven-day player hours, a top 0.1% spot overall and #4 across North America.

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

32 players are on Rusty Moose |US Main| at the moment, out of 250 slots. Averaging 249 players across seven days, it topped out at 895. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 00:00 UTC, averaging 466 players.

About the server

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

Rusty Moose |US Main| is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Moose |US Main| run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 28 as the lowest. At its peak it held 408,538 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 13,927 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rusty Moose |US Main| located?

Rusty Moose |US Main| uses its NA tag to list 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 205.178.168.84:28010.

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

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

The wipe schedule

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 857 players. 6 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 326 more were queued. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

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

Wipes on Rusty Moose |US Main| follow a every Thursday at 18:58 UTC pattern. Thursday 29 October at 18:58 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. Its current world has been live for 5 days. Weekly is the wipe rhythm its tags set out.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Moose |US Main| run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337 is what Rusty Moose |US Main| runs, made by the game. 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 Main|?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Moose |US Main|. A group holds at most 12 players. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Rust's premium status is required to join. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Rusty Moose |US Main|?

Enter client.connect 205.178.168.84:28010 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. Rust's premium status is required to join. You can find its website at https://moose.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,^q,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 This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp250
Max players Slots: 250.
ts12
Group limit Teams cap at 12 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

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

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.