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TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems

Online NA 66.51.96.71:28035 checked 1h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 50 slots 2% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 5
Rank#4,340top 19% · #734 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers, top 39% 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 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:14 UTC FW27d ago 4 – 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems: 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.

What do the server tags on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems sits at #4,340, inside the top 19% of ranked servers and at #734 in North America.

How many players are on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems right now?

The current tally at TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems: 1 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 5. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 15:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems online, and how reliable is it?

TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems is live at the moment. About 23 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 18 server fps, with a low of 4. Entities reached a maximum of 168,586: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,585 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems located?

With its NA tag, TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems lists itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 66.51.96.71:28035.

Which Rust version is TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 4 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 5 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems, tied to the force wipe. 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 27 days. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems run?

The procedural map on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 459877866. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems?

The name of TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join TheApocalypse|PVE|Zombies|SkillTree|RaidBases|LegendaryItems?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.96.71:28035. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://theapocalypse.tebex.io.

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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^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.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.