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Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE

Online NA 51.222.254.161:28035 checked 13m ago

3x monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#5,402top 24% · #907 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75113:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608013:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 24% of all ranked servers, top 49% in NA. 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 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 12 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 07:01 UTC27d ago 1 – running 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 Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE: 3x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, Rust zombie servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 3x.

What do the server tags on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE mean?

For the server browser, Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE sits at #5,402, inside the top 24% of ranked servers and at #907 in North America.

How many players are on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE right now?

The current tally at Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE: 0 players across 50 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 04:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.

Server details

Is Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 6 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities reached a maximum of 38,182: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,039 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE located?

Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 51.222.254.161:28035.

Which Rust version is Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 12 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

Wipes on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 5 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 Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 1337 is what Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

The name says it: Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE gathers at 3x. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Buddies Of The Wasteland 3X | No Kill | No Raid | Zombies | PVE?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.222.254.161:28035. 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,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits under North America.

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.