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[JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 500 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#5,860top 26%
Region–no continent published · group duo
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020009:0018:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

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 5 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
15k10k15k20k29 Sep5 Oct11 Oct16 Oct22 Oct28 Oct

Top 26% of all ranked servers, and #277 of the duo servers (top 66%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

3 days
usual gap
between real wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 5 OctFri 2 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 24 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 12:26 UTC22d ago 5 – running 1
Fri 2 Oct, 12:28 UTC25d ago 1 held half 3 days 0

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

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Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000?

You'll find [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live, Duo servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Asia; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): It has 500 slots; ts2 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 2; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #5,860 puts [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 in the top 26% of all ranked servers. The duo field places it at #277.

How many players are on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 right now?

[JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 is holding 0 players, with 500 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.

About the server

Is [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 online, and how reliable is it?

[JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 2 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 29 September 2026.

Does [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 139 server fps, with a low of 121. At its peak it held 48,528 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,786 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 located?

No region tag comes from [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000, but its name points to Asia. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 222.8.35.53:28015.

Which Rust version is [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. 24 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000?

The record of [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 22 days 19 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 run?

Generated by the game with seed 53619075, the map on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 is procedural and 3,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000?

Going by its name, [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000 runs 2x gather. A group can hold 2 players at most (duo). survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [JP] Vital Friends | 2x | Duo | 3000?

Enter client.connect 222.8.35.53:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts2,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp500
Max players It has 500 slots.
ts2
Group limit Each team is capped at 2.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.