RUSTY SQUIRREL
Online NA 64.42.177.216:28015 checked 9m 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 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. 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 2, 28 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 21:22 UTC19d 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.
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 RUSTY SQUIRREL?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include RUSTY SQUIRREL: 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: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on RUSTY SQUIRREL mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from RUSTY SQUIRREL: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp30 (Max players): Slots: 30; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167398 (Build): It's on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): The server browser lists it 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 RUSTY SQUIRREL rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, RUSTY SQUIRREL sits at #15,349, inside the top 69% of ranked servers and at #1,513 in North America.
How many players are on RUSTY SQUIRREL right now?
0 players are on RUSTY SQUIRREL at the moment, out of 30 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server details
Is RUSTY SQUIRREL online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, RUSTY SQUIRREL is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 days 3 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does RUSTY SQUIRREL run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 94, and it never went below 67. The world carried as many as 69,893 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 6,729 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is RUSTY SQUIRREL located?
In North America, RUSTY SQUIRREL lists itself with its NA tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 64.42.177.216:28015.
Which Rust version is RUSTY SQUIRREL on?
On Windows, RUSTY SQUIRREL runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on RUSTY SQUIRREL when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 28 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on RUSTY SQUIRREL?
RUSTY SQUIRREL 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. The world it is running now dates from 19 days 6 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
Map and rules
Which map does RUSTY SQUIRREL run?
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1795157423 is what RUSTY SQUIRREL runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on RUSTY SQUIRREL?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RUSTY SQUIRREL. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join RUSTY SQUIRREL?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 64.42.177.216:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.