Rat's Nest
Online EU 66.51.97.51:28050 checked 13m 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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 66% of all ranked servers, top 85% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Friday 30 October, 20:29 UTC, in 1d 8h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 20:29 UTC19d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 12:12 UTC26d ago | 0 | – | 7.3 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.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rat's Nest?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rat's Nest: European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly.
What do the server tags on Rat's Nest mean?
For the server browser, Rat's Nest lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts10 (Group limit): No team can exceed 10 players; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Rat's Nest rank against other Rust servers?
Rat's Nest takes #14,577 on seven-day player hours, a top 66% spot overall and #2,490 across Europe.
How many players are on Rat's Nest right now?
0 players are on Rat's Nest at the moment, out of 100 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players.
About the server
Is Rat's Nest online, and how reliable is it?
Rat's Nest is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 1 October 2026.
Does Rat's Nest run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 5, and it never went below 5. At its peak it held 2,555 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 1,147 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Rat's Nest located?
With its EU tag, Rat's Nest lists itself in Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.97.51:28050.
Which Rust version is Rat's Nest on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rat's Nest runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on Rat's Nest when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Rat's Nest?
Its tag sets the prediction, because Rat's Nest's recorded wipes are too few to confirm the schedule. Come Friday 30 October at 20:29 UTC, the next wipe is expected. Its current world has been live for 19 days 14 hours. The tags say wipes happen every week.
Map and rules
Which map does Rat's Nest run?
Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on Rat's Nest is procedural and 1,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Rat's Nest?
The name of Rat's Nest says nothing about gather rate. Teams can reach 10 players. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Join up
How do I join Rat's Nest?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.97.51:28050. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.