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Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#3,168top 14%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123406:0015:0000:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 14% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

6
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 31 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 14:11 UTC27d ago 6 – 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]: Modded Rust servers, live and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] mean?

These are the tags Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] at #3,168, within the top 14% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] right now?

The current tally at Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]: 0 players across 50 slots. Peak for the week was 4, against an average of 1 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

Server details

Is Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] is up and running. About 5 days 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 32, with 5 as the lowest. At its peak it held 115,411 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,375 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] located?

No region is published by Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.96.56:28015.

Which Rust version is Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] on?

On Linux, Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 6 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 31 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]?

Too few wipes are on record for Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 27 days 11 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] run?

Generated by the game with seed 17762077, the map on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.] is procedural and 4,000 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]?

No gather rate appears in the name of Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is off: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join Grandpa Rust PVE W/Purge Week & More [U.S.]?

Enter client.connect 66.51.96.56:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/7WAndF7fxg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

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.

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.