vanilla +
Online OC 51.161.219.251:28020 checked 11m 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 14% of all ranked servers, top 39% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 17h. 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 5, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 Oct, 10:32 UTC11d ago | 5 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 18 Oct, 04:22 UTC11d ago | 5 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:56 UTC FW28d ago | 5 | halved by day 6 | 16.4 days | 1 |
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.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include vanilla +?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include vanilla +: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on vanilla + mean?
For the server browser, vanilla + lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp75 (Max players): Slots: 75; ts16 (Group limit): No team can exceed 16 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following 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): Its place in the server browser is under Oceania. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does vanilla + rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, vanilla + sits at #3,064, inside the top 14% of ranked servers and at #83 in Oceania.
How many players are on vanilla + right now?
The current tally at vanilla +: 1 players across 75 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 8. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 06:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Server facts
Is vanilla + online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, vanilla + is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 days 19 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does vanilla + run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 10, with 5 as the lowest. At its peak it held 121,805 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 5,266 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is vanilla + located?
With its OC tag, vanilla + lists itself in Oceania. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 51.161.219.251:28020.
Which Rust version is vanilla + on?
On Linux, vanilla + runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on vanilla + when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 5 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 6.
What is the wipe schedule on vanilla +?
Wipes on vanilla + come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 11 days 14 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
The rules
Which map does vanilla + run?
The procedural map on vanilla + measures 4,300 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. On the map name: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on vanilla +?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on vanilla +. Teams can reach 16 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Getting in
How do I join vanilla +?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.161.219.251:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.