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PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly

Online 51.161.198.14:5004 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 4/ 100 slots 4% full +3+182%against this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 7
Rank#2,234top 10%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0022:0007:0016:0001:00

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 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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 10% 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 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

14.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
10
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

6d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 12, 35 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 22:03 UTC FW28d ago 12 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 12:47 UTC42d ago 9 halved by day 5 14.4 days 4

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 PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly: Modded Rust servers, live and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly mean?

These are the tags PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; 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 code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly at #2,234, in the top 10% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly right now?

PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly is holding 4 players, with 100 slots in total. Peak for the week was 7, against an average of 2 players. Look at 09:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 4 players on average.

About the server

Is PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 6 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 76, and it never went below 54. At its peak it held 171,832 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 7,172 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly located?

There is no region from PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 51.161.198.14:5004.

Which Rust version is PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 10 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 35 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 5.

What is the wipe schedule on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly?

Wipes on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly 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. Its current world has been live for 28 days 4 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly run?

Generated by the game with seed 114209, the map on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly is procedural and 4,500 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 PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join PVE | MetaRust | Vanilla | Monthly?

Enter client.connect 51.161.198.14:5004 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/3vwaNaknCU.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
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 code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.