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The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |

Offline NA 69.9.150.161:28027 checked 14d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 110 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,218top 70% · #1546 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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 Sep26 Sep2 Oct9 Oct15 Oct21 Oct

Top 70% of all ranked servers, top 84% 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, 31 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 14:42 UTC26d 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

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |?

You'll find The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, Rust zombie servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Premium; Server tag: PvE ^p, Creative ^c, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | mean?

These are the tags The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp110 (Max players): There are 110 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is 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 The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | sits at #15,218, inside the top 70% of ranked servers and at #1,546 in North America.

How many players are on The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | right now?

The last sighting of The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | was 14 days 14 hours ago, and it is offline now.

Server facts

Is The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | online, and how reliable is it?

The server The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | is not online now; 14 days 14 hours have passed since it was last seen. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 0%, with 0 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Where is The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | located?

The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | 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 69.9.150.161:28027.

Which Rust version is The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | on?

On Windows, The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 31 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |?

The record of The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |'s wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 26 days 10 hours.

The rules

Which map does The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | run?

Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | is procedural and 3,500 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 Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |?

The name says it: The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies | gathers at 2x. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. building in a sandbox, with no gathering: that is the build & creative mode. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. Joining requires Rust's premium status. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join The Salt Mines (Official) PVE | 2x | Events | Purge | Zombies |?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 69.9.150.161:28027. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Joining requires Rust's premium status. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/uNHPRCK8cJ.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp110,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^c,NA,^p,gmvanilla,cs167781,^q,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp110
Max players There are 110 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Gameplay

^c
Creative Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering.
^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.
^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.