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New England Rust

Online 38.69.199.225:28083 checked 10m ago

monthly wipes vanilla
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 4
Rank#6,262top 28%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5208:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 28% of all ranked servers. 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 11hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 31 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:42 UTC FW27d ago 2 – running 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

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include New England Rust?

You'll find New England Rust on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on New England Rust mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from New England Rust: 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; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does New England Rust rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #6,262 puts New England Rust in the top 28% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on New England Rust right now?

The current tally at New England Rust: 0 players across 100 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 22:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server details

Is New England Rust online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, New England Rust is online. About 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does New England Rust run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 98, with 80 as the lowest. At its peak it held 104,561 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,270 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is New England Rust located?

Its name points to Europe, although New England Rust publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 38.69.199.225:28083.

Which Rust version is New England Rust on?

On Linux, New England Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on New England Rust when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. 31 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on New England Rust?

Wipes on New England Rust 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. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 10 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does New England Rust run?

A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 1289664704 is what New England Rust 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 New England Rust?

No gather rate appears in the name of New England Rust. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. 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 New England Rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 38.69.199.225:28083. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://newenglandrust.duckdns.org/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,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.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

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

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.