Wayward Home
Offline NA 66.51.98.53:28015 checked 23d 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 71% of all ranked servers, top 84% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. 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 2, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:53 UTC FW27d ago | 2 | – | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Wayward Home?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Wayward Home: 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 Wayward Home mean?
These are the tags Wayward Home publishes for the browser: 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; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is 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 Wayward Home rank against other Rust servers?
Wayward Home takes #15,960 on seven-day player hours, a top 71% spot overall and #1,565 across North America.
How many players are on Wayward Home right now?
Offline now, Wayward Home was last spotted 23 days 8 hours ago.
Server facts
Is Wayward Home online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment: Wayward Home was last seen 23 days 8 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Where is Wayward Home located?
Wayward Home uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 66.51.98.53:28015.
Which Rust version is Wayward Home on?
On Linux, Wayward Home runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe days
What happens on Wayward Home when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Wayward Home?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for Wayward Home, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 7 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.
Map and rules
Which map does Wayward Home run?
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 142534215 is what Wayward Home runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Wayward Home?
No gather rate appears in the name of Wayward Home. The group limit is 8 players, the game's 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.
How to join
How do I join Wayward Home?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.98.53:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.