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AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |

Online NA 69.30.244.178:4585 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 120 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#11,318top 51% · #1342 in NA
RegionNANA · group 16 max
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75100:0009:0018:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608000:0009:0018:0003:0012:0021:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 51% of all ranked servers, top 72% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 17 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 08:11 UTC25d ago 1 – 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

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Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |: Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Build server ^k, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | mean?

For the server browser, AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp120 (Max players): There are 120 slots; ts16 (Group limit): Teams cap at 16 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^c (Creative): No gathering needed: sandbox building, build whatever you like; ^k (Build server): Design and practise your bases; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | rank against other Rust servers?

AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | takes #11,318 on seven-day player hours, a top 51% spot overall and #1,342 across North America.

How many players are on AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | right now?

AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | is holding 0 players, with 120 slots in total. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Look at 06:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.

About the server

Is AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | online, and how reliable is it?

AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 60 server fps, with a low of 59. The world carried as many as 102,093 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,194 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | located?

AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | uses its NA tag to list 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 69.30.244.178:4585.

Which Rust version is AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |?

Too few wipes are on record for AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 25 days 15 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | run?

A procedural map of 6,000 with seed 1337 is what AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New | 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 AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |?

No gather rate appears in the name of AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |. A group holds at most 16 players. build & creative is the game mode, no gathering, just sandbox building. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join AfterShock | US | Builder | Creative Sandbox | New |?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 69.30.244.178:4585. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://aftershockrust.com/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^c,^k,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts16

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp120
Max players There are 120 slots.
ts16
Group limit Teams cap at 16 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Gameplay

^c
Creative No gathering needed: sandbox building, build whatever you like.
^k
Build server Design and practise your bases.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon, 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.