Southern Grid AU
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 24m 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 23% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 2h. 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 1, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC26d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTC FW26d ago | 2 | – | 0.4 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 Southern Grid AU?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Southern Grid AU: Oceania Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Southern Grid AU mean?
These are the tags Southern Grid AU publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; 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): 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): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
The players
How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Southern Grid AU sits at #5,219, inside the top 23% of ranked servers and at #120 in Oceania.
How many players are on Southern Grid AU right now?
0 players are on Southern Grid AU at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 07:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server facts
Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Southern Grid AU is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 20 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 11, and it never went below 5. The world carried as many as 122,719 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,730 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is Southern Grid AU located?
Southern Grid AU uses its OC tag to list itself in Oceania. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 51.161.198.78:28070.
Which Rust version is Southern Grid AU on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Southern Grid AU runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Southern Grid AU when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 35 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?
Southern Grid AU wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 26 days 11 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
The rules
Which map does Southern Grid AU run?
The procedural map on Southern Grid AU measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1883130744. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on Southern Grid AU?
The name of Southern Grid AU says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Oxide plugins power it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Rust's premium status is required to join. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
How to join
How do I join Southern Grid AU?
Enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. Rust's premium status is required to join.