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[US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly

Online 51.79.46.215:28015 checked 11m ago

quad monthly wipes softcore
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 125 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#4,733top 21%
Region–no continent published · group quad
Last wipe23d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5223:0008:0017:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040023:0008:0017:0001:0010:0020:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 21% of all ranked servers, and #303 of the quad servers (top 37%). 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 20hThu 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 2, 11 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 06:06 UTC23d ago 2 – 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 [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Community servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules make it easier; mp125 (Max players): It has 125 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #4,733 puts [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly in the top 21% of all ranked servers. It comes in at #303 among quad servers.

How many players are on [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly right now?

The current tally at [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly: 0 players across 125 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

About the server

Is [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 147, with 99 as the lowest. At its peak it held 94,456 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,423 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly located?

No region tag comes from [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly, but its name points to North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 51.79.46.215:28015.

Which Rust version is [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly on?

On Linux, [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 11 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly?

[US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly 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 23 days 16 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly run?

A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1645613345 is what [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly runs, made by the game. 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 [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly?

The name of [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly says nothing about gather rate. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. It runs softcore, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join [US] Dirty West | Vanilla | Monthly | Max 5 | Noob Friendly?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.79.46.215:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules make it easier.
mp125
Max players It has 125 slots.
ts4
Group limit Each team is capped at 4.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

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.