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Mandarin

Online 43.225.196.106:28019 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 21 slots 5% full −3−75%against this time yesterday
7-day average4peak 9
Rank#1,604top 7%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246822:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 7% 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 6d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

13
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:08 UTC FW28d ago 13 – running 6

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

Who runs Mandarin?

A orangem.art hostname is published by Mandarin, and by 1 other server we track, so they probably share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Mandarin?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Mandarin: Modded Rust servers, live and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Mandarin mean?

For the server browser, Mandarin lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp21 (Max players): There are 21 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; 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): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; ^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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Mandarin rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Mandarin at #1,604, within the top 7% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Mandarin right now?

1 players are on Mandarin at the moment, out of 21 slots. Peak for the week was 9, against an average of 4 players. Look at 15:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 6 players on average.

Server facts

Is Mandarin online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Mandarin is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 12 hours ago. 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 Mandarin run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 60, and it never went below 60. At its peak it held 137,286 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,948 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Mandarin located?

There is no region from Mandarin. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 43.225.196.106:28019.

Which Rust version is Mandarin on?

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

Wipe times

What happens on Mandarin when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 13 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Mandarin?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Mandarin, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 28 days 2 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does Mandarin run?

Generated by the game with seed 969472, the map on Mandarin is procedural and 4,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Wipe in: 6d 22h is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on Mandarin?

No gather rate appears in the name of Mandarin. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. Joining requires Rust's premium status. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is off.

How to join

How do I join Mandarin?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.225.196.106:28019. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Joining requires Rust's premium status. You can find its website at https://orangerust.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp21,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^p,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp21
Max players There are 21 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
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 It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.
^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.