Salty Sheep
Online NA 47.205.83.235:28015 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 11 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 58% of all ranked servers, top 76% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 26 Oct, 15:22 UTC1d ago | – | – | 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.
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 Salty Sheep?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Salty Sheep: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
What do the server tags on Salty Sheep mean?
These are the tags Salty Sheep publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp20 (Max players): Slots: 20; 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does Salty Sheep rank against other Rust servers?
Salty Sheep takes #12,761 on seven-day player hours, a top 58% spot overall and #1,415 across North America.
How many players are on Salty Sheep right now?
The current tally at Salty Sheep: 0 players across 20 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 16:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
About the server
Is Salty Sheep online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Salty Sheep is online. About 8 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 11 October 2026.
Does Salty Sheep run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 224, with 167 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 91,992 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 2,865 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Salty Sheep located?
In North America, Salty Sheep lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 47.205.83.235:28015.
Which Rust version is Salty Sheep on?
On Windows, Salty Sheep runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Salty Sheep?
Wipes on Salty Sheep come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 28 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does Salty Sheep run?
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 965939955 is what Salty Sheep 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 Salty Sheep?
The name of Salty Sheep says nothing about gather rate. 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. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Carbon. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Salty Sheep?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 47.205.83.235:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.