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WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla

Online 45.45.238.182:28080 checked 2h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 400 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,373top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe48d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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 interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla?

You'll find WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers and Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla mean?

For the server browser, WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2633 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2633; cs163493 (Build): Game build: 163493; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla at #15,373, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla right now?

WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla is holding 0 players, with 400 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

Is WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla online, and how reliable is it?

WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 235 server fps, with a low of 227. The world carried as many as 19,682 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 1,146 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla located?

There is no region from WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 45.45.238.182:28080.

Which Rust version is WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla on?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163493 is the version WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla?

The record of WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla'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. 48 days 22 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla run?

A procedural map of 2,000 with seed 481981 is what WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla 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 WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla?

No gather rate appears in the name of WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join WELCOME TO RUST/NEW PLAYER FRIENDLY Vanilla?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 45.45.238.182:28080. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163493,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2633
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2633.
cs163493
Build Game build: 163493.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.