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Forge | Nightfall

Online 45.152.50.40:28015 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#4,611top 21%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe19d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75103:0012:0021:0007:0016:0001:00

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 9 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 21% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Forge | Nightfall?

You'll find Forge | Nightfall on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Forge | Nightfall mean?

For the server browser, Forge | Nightfall lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Forge | Nightfall rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #4,611 puts Forge | Nightfall in the top 21% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Forge | Nightfall right now?

0 players are on Forge | Nightfall at the moment, out of 50 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 13:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server details

Is Forge | Nightfall online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Forge | Nightfall is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 22 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 8 October 2026.

Does Forge | Nightfall run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 215, with 136 as the lowest. At its peak it held 73,445 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 2,690 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Forge | Nightfall located?

There is no region from Forge | Nightfall. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 45.152.50.40:28015.

Which Rust version is Forge | Nightfall on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Forge | Nightfall runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on Forge | Nightfall?

The record of Forge | Nightfall'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. The world it is running now dates from 19 days 5 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Forge | Nightfall run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 20261008 is what Forge | Nightfall runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Forge | Nightfall?

No gather rate appears in the name of Forge | Nightfall. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Forge | Nightfall?

Enter client.connect 45.152.50.40:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^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.