Sanctuary Rust PVE
Online NA 66.51.96.72:28030 checked 10m 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 30% of all ranked servers, top 56% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. 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 4, 5 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW27d ago | 4 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 18:31 UTC41d ago | 6 | halved by day 5 | 14 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Who runs Sanctuary Rust PVE?
A sanctuarypve.com hostname is published by Sanctuary Rust PVE. We track no other server using it.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Sanctuary Rust PVE?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Sanctuary Rust PVE: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters 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 Sanctuary Rust PVE mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from Sanctuary Rust PVE: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Sanctuary Rust PVE rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Sanctuary Rust PVE sits at #6,626, inside the top 30% of ranked servers and at #1,045 in North America.
How many players are on Sanctuary Rust PVE right now?
The current tally at Sanctuary Rust PVE: 0 players across 50 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 21:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server facts
Is Sanctuary Rust PVE online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Sanctuary Rust PVE is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does Sanctuary Rust PVE run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 59, with 55 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 114,694: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,953 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Sanctuary Rust PVE located?
With its NA tag, Sanctuary Rust PVE 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. Connect at 66.51.96.72:28030.
Which Rust version is Sanctuary Rust PVE on?
On Linux, Sanctuary Rust PVE runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on Sanctuary Rust PVE when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 5 players at their busiest. 5 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 5.
What is the wipe schedule on Sanctuary Rust PVE?
Wipes on Sanctuary Rust PVE come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 27 days 20 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
The rules
Which map does Sanctuary Rust PVE run?
A procedural map of 3,650 with seed 214404319 is what Sanctuary Rust PVE 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 Sanctuary Rust PVE?
No gather rate appears in the name of Sanctuary Rust PVE. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join Sanctuary Rust PVE?
Enter client.connect 66.51.96.72:28030 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://sanctuaryrust.com.