The Carnivorous Cactus
Online NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 9m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 47% of all ranked servers, top 70% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC25d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC42d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 17.8 days | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Carnivorous Cactus?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include The Carnivorous Cactus: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on The Carnivorous Cactus mean?
For the server browser, The Carnivorous Cactus lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does The Carnivorous Cactus rank against other Rust servers?
The Carnivorous Cactus takes #10,379 on seven-day player hours, a top 47% spot overall and #1,304 across North America.
How many players are on The Carnivorous Cactus right now?
0 players are on The Carnivorous Cactus at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 22:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
About the server
Is The Carnivorous Cactus online, and how reliable is it?
The Carnivorous Cactus is live at the moment. About 9 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does The Carnivorous Cactus run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 60, with 59 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 78,352 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,666 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is The Carnivorous Cactus located?
The Carnivorous Cactus uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 45.59.162.29:28080.
Which Rust version is The Carnivorous Cactus on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Carnivorous Cactus runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on The Carnivorous Cactus when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on The Carnivorous Cactus?
The Carnivorous Cactus wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 25 days 3 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Carnivorous Cactus run?
Generated by the game with seed 108205031, the map on The Carnivorous Cactus is procedural and 3,500 in size. 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 The Carnivorous Cactus?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Carnivorous Cactus. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join The Carnivorous Cactus?
Enter client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.