Live 64,636 players 11,756 servers online 196 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published Tangent Mile Onlineright now
Celebrity profile · NA

Tangent Mile

Online NA 51.222.255.28:28000 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide
Get on the guest list

Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,323top 69% · #1507 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe15d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246812:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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 10 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
15k10k15k20k10 Oct14 Oct18 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% 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 7h. The force wipe · high confidence

3.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 13 OctSat 10 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 13 Oct, 23:11 UTC15d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 10 Oct, 01:19 UTC19d ago 1 halved by day 2 3.9 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.

You might also like

Similar servers

The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Tangent Mile?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Tangent Mile: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Tangent Mile mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Tangent Mile: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to 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; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does Tangent Mile rank against other Rust servers?

Tangent Mile takes #15,323 on seven-day player hours, a top 69% spot overall and #1,507 across North America.

How many players are on Tangent Mile right now?

The current tally at Tangent Mile: 0 players across 50 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is Tangent Mile online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Tangent Mile is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 55 minutes ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 10 October 2026.

Does Tangent Mile run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 5, and it never went below 5. Entities reached a maximum of 177,654: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,934 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Tangent Mile located?

In North America, Tangent Mile lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 51.222.255.28:28000.

Which Rust version is Tangent Mile on?

On Linux, Tangent Mile runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Tangent Mile when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Tangent Mile?

Wipes on Tangent Mile 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. 15 days 12 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 Tangent Mile run?

Generated by the game with seed 483271, the map on Tangent Mile is procedural and 5,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Tangent Mile?

No gather rate appears in the name of Tangent Mile. 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. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Tangent Mile?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.222.255.28:28000. 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,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to 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

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.