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Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly

Online NA 66.51.99.45:28005 checked 15m ago

2x monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#5,960top 27% · #971 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe2d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123401:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608001:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 27% of all ranked servers, top 52% in NA. 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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

14 days
usual gap
between real wipes
67%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

7d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 18hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 26 OctFri 16 OctFri 2 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 10 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 26 Oct, 19:42 UTC2d ago 3 – running 0
Fri 16 Oct, 01:18 UTC12d ago 1 halved by day 1 10.8 days 0
Fri 2 Oct, 01:50 UTC26d ago 4 halved by day 5 14 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 20:40 UTC41d ago 8 halved by day 11 14.2 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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Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly?

You'll find Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up 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; Last wipe: In the last 3 days; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly mean?

These are the tags Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^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. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly sits at #5,960, inside the top 27% of ranked servers and at #971 in North America.

How many players are on Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly right now?

Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 06:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 48 minutes ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 143, a 85% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 11 server fps, with a low of 5. At its peak it held 117,863 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 3,443 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly located?

With its NA tag, Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly lists itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.99.45:28005.

Which Rust version is Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly on?

On Linux, Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 5.

What is the wipe schedule on Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly?

Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 2 days 3 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly run?

Generated by the game with seed 1, the map on Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly 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 Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly?

Going by its name, Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly runs 2x gather. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. 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 Blacktide | 2X | PvPvE Zones | Monthly?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.45:28005. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/uHaFAkhxaX.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^p,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.