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The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP

Online NA 66.51.99.21:28050 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,139top 28% · #994 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0019:0004:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246809:0019:0004:0013:0022:0007:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 28% of all ranked servers, top 53% in NA, and #365 of the quad servers (top 44%). 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 6d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 10hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 27 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 21:28 UTC FW28d 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP?

You'll find The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP mean?

For the server browser, The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^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.

The players

How does The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP sits at #6,139, inside the top 28% of ranked servers and at #994 in North America. Within the quad category, it sits at #365.

How many players are on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP right now?

The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP is holding 0 players, with 100 slots in total. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 20 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 13 September 2026.

Does The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 5, and it never went below 5. At its peak it held 143,915 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 5,538 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP located?

In North America, The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP lists itself with its NA tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.99.21:28050.

Which Rust version is The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP on?

On Linux, The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP?

Wipes on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 28 days 10 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP run?

Generated by the game with seed 2122343034, the map on The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP is procedural and 4,500 in size. 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 The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP?

The name of The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP says nothing about gather rate. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). pve is the game mode, no fighting other players. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join The Meat Grinder PvE/PvP?

Enter client.connect 66.51.99.21:28050 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp9024879.jpg.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts4,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

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

NA
North America The server browser lists it 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.