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OUTBACK AU 3x

Online OC 51.161.219.251:28005 checked 10m ago

3x monthly wipes moddedoxide
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#4,936top 22% · #113 in OC
RegionOCOC · group 6 max
Last wipe20d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5221:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

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 8 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 22% of all ranked servers, top 53% 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 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
8
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctFri 9 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 8, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 11:01 UTC20d ago 8 – running 7
Fri 9 Oct, 00:57 UTC20d ago 8 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include OUTBACK AU 3x?

You'll find OUTBACK AU 3x on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 3x Rust servers, live, Oceania Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 3x.

What do the server tags on OUTBACK AU 3x mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from OUTBACK AU 3x: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts6 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 6; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does OUTBACK AU 3x rank against other Rust servers?

OUTBACK AU 3x takes #4,936 on seven-day player hours, a top 22% spot overall and #113 across Oceania.

How many players are on OUTBACK AU 3x right now?

OUTBACK AU 3x is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 3. Look at 02:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.

Server details

Is OUTBACK AU 3x online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, OUTBACK AU 3x is online. About 20 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 8 October 2026.

Does OUTBACK AU 3x run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 5. The world carried as many as 123,162 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,887 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is OUTBACK AU 3x located?

OUTBACK AU 3x 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 51.161.219.251:28005.

Which Rust version is OUTBACK AU 3x on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version OUTBACK AU 3x runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on OUTBACK AU 3x when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 8 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 3 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on OUTBACK AU 3x?

Wipes on OUTBACK AU 3x 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. 20 days 9 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does OUTBACK AU 3x run?

The procedural map on OUTBACK AU 3x measures 4,000 and comes from the game with seed 43829. 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 OUTBACK AU 3x?

The name says it: OUTBACK AU 3x gathers at 3x. A group holds at most 6 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join OUTBACK AU 3x?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.161.219.251:28005. 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,OC,gmrust,cs168909,ts6,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts6
Group limit Each team is capped at 6.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

OC
Oceania In the server browser it sits 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.