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Rusty Tortoise

Online 47.206.72.241:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#11,482top 52%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0009:0013:0019:0023:0003:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 52% 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 7d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 3 OctFri 2 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 16 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 05:03 UTC25d ago 3 – running 0
Fri 2 Oct, 06:22 UTC26d ago 3 – 0.9 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Tortoise?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Tortoise: Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rusty Tortoise mean?

These are the tags Rusty Tortoise publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rusty Tortoise rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rusty Tortoise at #11,482, within the top 52% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rusty Tortoise right now?

The current tally at Rusty Tortoise: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.

About the server

Is Rusty Tortoise online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rusty Tortoise is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 125, a 74% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Tortoise run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 30 server fps, with a low of 30. Entities reached a maximum of 94,810: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,375 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Tortoise located?

No region is published by Rusty Tortoise. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 47.206.72.241:28015.

Which Rust version is Rusty Tortoise on?

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

Wipe days

What happens on Rusty Tortoise when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 16 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Tortoise?

Rusty Tortoise wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 25 days 23 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty Tortoise run?

A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1996107046 is what Rusty Tortoise 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 Rusty Tortoise?

The name of Rusty Tortoise says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Tortoise?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 47.206.72.241:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.