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MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien

Online NA 38.22.128.234:28025 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 100 slots 2% full +2against this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#3,310top 15% · #544 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe49m agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040013:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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 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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 29% 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 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

17.7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 11

Coming wipes

7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 24 SepThu 24 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 30 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 11:38 UTC49m ago – – running 0
Thu 24 Sep, 12:35 UTC34d ago 5 – – 1
Thu 24 Sep, 02:43 UTC35d ago 5 – 0.4 days 1

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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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Community servers, by the numbers, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, 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, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

What do the server tags on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien mean?

For the server browser, MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2636 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2636, so your client has to match it to join; cs169635 (Build): It's on game build 169635; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; NA (North America): The server browser lists it 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 MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien sits at #3,310, inside the top 15% of ranked servers and at #544 in North America.

How many players are on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien right now?

The current tally at MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien: 2 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 4, against an average of 1 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 15:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

About the server

Is MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien online, and how reliable is it?

MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 21 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 226 server fps, with a low of 212. At its peak it held 153,000 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 3,502 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien located?

MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien 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 38.22.128.234:28025.

Which Rust version is MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien on?

Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169635 is the version MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 5 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 30 hours after it began. 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 11.

What is the wipe schedule on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien?

Wipes on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien come once a month, alongside 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. 49 minutes is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1403708994 is what MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien?

The name of MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. It appears under Community in the browser. Carbon plugins are running on it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: 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.

Join up

How do I join MelonCatRS Staging | No Raiding/Killing | No Decay | Noob Frien?

Enter client.connect 38.22.128.234:28025 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://discord.com/invite/WkBF7C56ar.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2636,^y,^m,^v,NA,^p,gmrust,cs169635,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2636
Protocol The game protocol is 2636, so your client has to match it to join.
cs169635
Build It's on game build 169635.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.