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Rusty Reef

Online EU 66.51.97.55:28050 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#5,070top 23% · #1721 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 5 max
Last wipe24d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75102:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608002:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% of all ranked servers, top 59% in EU. 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 7d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 17hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 14:54 UTC24d ago 1 – 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 Rusty Reef?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Reef: European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rusty Reef mean?

These are the tags Rusty Reef publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts5 (Group limit): No team can exceed 5 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 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; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Rusty Reef rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Reef sits at #5,070, inside the top 23% of ranked servers and at #1,721 in Europe.

How many players are on Rusty Reef right now?

Rusty Reef is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 10:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server facts

Is Rusty Reef online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rusty Reef is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 16 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 156, a 93% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Reef run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 27, with 5 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 121,750 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,903 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Reef located?

Rusty Reef uses its EU tag to list itself in Europe. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 66.51.97.55:28050.

Which Rust version is Rusty Reef on?

On Linux, Rusty Reef runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Rusty Reef when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Reef?

Rusty Reef wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 24 days 11 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rusty Reef run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 2138400164 is what Rusty Reef runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Reef?

The name of Rusty Reef says nothing about gather rate. A group holds at most 5 players. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Rusty Reef?

Enter client.connect 66.51.97.55:28050 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts5,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts5
Group limit No team can exceed 5 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it under Europe.

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.