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[US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly

Online NA 66.51.99.70:28045 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 50 slots 2% full −2−67%against this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 5
Rank#2,546top 12% · #408 in NA
RegionNANA · group trio
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246821:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 12% of all ranked servers, top 22% in NA, and #201 of the trio servers (top 32%). 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

10
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 10, 6 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago 10 – running 2

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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly?

You'll find [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Rust tutorial servers, Community servers, by the numbers, Trio servers: who's hot, who's slipping, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 3; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly rank against other Rust servers?

[US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly takes #2,546 on seven-day player hours, a top 12% spot overall and #408 across North America. Within the trio category, it sits at #201.

How many players are on [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly right now?

The current tally at [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly: 1 players across 50 slots. Averaging 2 players across seven days, it topped out at 5. Look at 17:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 4 players on average.

Server facts

Is [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly online, and how reliable is it?

[US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 5 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 57, and it never went below 5. The world carried as many as 83,424 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,173 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly located?

With its NA tag, [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.70:28045.

Which Rust version is [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 10 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 6 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly?

[US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 2 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly run?

A procedural map of 3,700 with seed 1337 is what [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Nebulous Generated Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly. A group can hold 3 players at most (trio). the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. Oxide plugins are running on it. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [US] NEBULOUS RUST | Solo/Duo/Trio | Monthly | Noob Friendly?

Enter client.connect 66.51.99.70:28045 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/53UcGQyP4B.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,^t,gmrust,cs168909,ts3,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts3
Group limit Each team is capped at 3.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits 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.