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Rusty Rooster

Online NA 66.51.99.54:28020 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,268top 68% · #1496 in NA
RegionNANA · group solo
Last wipe19d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246822:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 4 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 68% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA, and #198 of the solo servers (top 88%). 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 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 10 OctSun 4 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 10 Oct, 19:52 UTC19d ago 4 – running 0
Sun 4 Oct, 18:48 UTC25d ago 5 halved by day 2 6 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

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Rooster?

You'll find Rusty Rooster on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Solo Rust 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: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Solo; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rusty Rooster mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rusty Rooster: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts1 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 1; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^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): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Rusty Rooster rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Rooster sits at #15,268, inside the top 68% of ranked servers and at #1,496 in North America. Within the solo category, it sits at #198.

How many players are on Rusty Rooster right now?

The current tally at Rusty Rooster: 0 players across 50 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server facts

Is Rusty Rooster online, and how reliable is it?

Rusty Rooster is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 4 October 2026.

Does Rusty Rooster run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 5, with 5 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 24,147 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 1,350 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Rooster located?

With its NA tag, Rusty Rooster 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 66.51.99.54:28020.

Which Rust version is Rusty Rooster on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rusty Rooster runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rusty Rooster when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 4 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in. 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 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Rooster?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Rusty Rooster, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 19 days 1 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rusty Rooster run?

Generated by the game with seed 1932751608, the map on Rusty Rooster is procedural and 2,250 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 Rusty Rooster?

The name of Rusty Rooster says nothing about gather rate. No teams here; it is solo only. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rusty Rooster?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.54:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts1
Group limit Each team is capped at 1.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

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 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.