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iron wood

Offline 71.29.52.31:28015 checked 1d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 15 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#5,613top 25%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe9d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5201:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020001:0002:00

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 16 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
15k10k15k20k14 Oct17 Oct20 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
33%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 19 OctSun 18 OctFri 16 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 25 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 19 Oct, 00:24 UTC9d ago 4 – running 0
Sun 18 Oct, 07:54 UTC10d ago 4 – 0.7 days 1
Fri 16 Oct, 01:24 UTC12d ago 3 held half 2.3 days 0
Wed 14 Oct, 19:46 UTC14d ago 2 – 1.2 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

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include iron wood?

You'll find iron wood on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on iron wood mean?

These are the tags iron wood publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp15 (Max players): Slots: 15; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does iron wood rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place iron wood at #5,613, in the top 25% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on iron wood right now?

Offline now, iron wood was last spotted 45 hours ago. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

About the server

Is iron wood online, and how reliable is it?

iron wood shows as offline, last spotted 45 hours ago. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 73%, with 122 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 14 October 2026.

Does iron wood run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 100 server fps, with a low of 94. At its peak it held 74,800 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 1,871 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is iron wood located?

No region is published by iron wood. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 71.29.52.31:28015.

Which Rust version is iron wood on?

On Windows, iron wood runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on iron wood when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 25 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 100% of the time.

What is the wipe schedule on iron wood?

No next wipe can be predicted for iron wood: its wipes happen at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 9 days 23 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does iron wood run?

The procedural map on iron wood measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 1551960660. 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 iron wood?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on iron wood. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join iron wood?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 71.29.52.31:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp15
Max players Slots: 15.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.