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Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore

Online NA 66.51.99.131:28035 checked 13m ago

quad biweekly wipes carbonsoftcore
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#7,808top 35% · #1149 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe13d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75115:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 62% in NA, and #427 of the quad servers (top 52%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
50%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

Coming wipes

7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 3hThu 12 Nov, 17:57 UTC
35d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 3hThu 10 Dec, 17:57 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:57 UTC13d ago 2 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:56 UTC FW27d ago 2 held half 14 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:56 UTC41d ago 3 halved by day 3 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore: Community servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Biweekly ^b and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore mean?

These are the tags Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore publishes for the browser: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; 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; ^b (Biweekly): The server wipes every fortnight; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; 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 Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore rank against other Rust servers?

Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore takes #7,808 on seven-day player hours, a top 35% spot overall and #1,149 across North America. It comes in at #427 among quad servers.

How many players are on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore right now?

0 players are on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 04:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server details

Is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore is up and running. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 154, with 117 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 90,200 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,092 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore located?

In North America, Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.131:28035.

Which Rust version is Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 5 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 50% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 3.

What is the wipe schedule on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

Wipes on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore follow a every 4 weeks on Thursday at 17:57 UTC pattern. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 13 days 20 hours. The tags list a fortnightly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore run?

A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 1337 is what Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

The name of Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore says nothing about gather rate. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. The plugin count is Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Thermite.gg Vanilla Softcore?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.131:28035. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://thermite.gg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^b,NA,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode An easier ruleset, softcore.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit Each team is capped at 4.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
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

^b
Biweekly The server wipes every fortnight.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.