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[AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event

Online OC 51.161.216.128:28215 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 6/ 100 slots 6% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 21
Rank#1,143top 5% · #25 in OC
RegionOCOC · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 5% of all ranked servers, top 12% in OC. 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 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 22, 38 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:35 UTC FW27d ago 22 – running 5

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.

Tags

Who runs [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

The same operator most likely runs [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event and 5 other servers we track, since all publish a szservers.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

You'll find [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Oceania Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, The roleplay set, by the numbers and Rust zombie servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event mean?

For the server browser, [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^r (Roleplay): Roleplay is the focus here; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event sits at #1,143, inside the top 5% of ranked servers and at #25 in Oceania.

How many players are on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event right now?

The current tally at [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event: 6 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 21, against an average of 7 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 09:00 UTC, averaging 11 players.

Server facts

Is [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event online, and how reliable is it?

[AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 19 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 99 server fps, with a low of 90. The world carried as many as 185,342 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 7,856 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event located?

In Oceania, [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event lists itself with its OC tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 51.161.216.128:28215.

Which Rust version is [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event on?

On Linux, [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 22 players at their busiest. 38 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

[AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event 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. Its current world has been live for 27 days 21 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event run?

The procedural map on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1337. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

The name of [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. jobs and towns under roleplay rules: that is the roleplay mode. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [AU] Salty Zombies PvE | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.161.216.128:28215. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/hTZdV739pX.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

OC
Oceania The server browser lists it under Oceania.

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.