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BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab

Online NA 72.9.148.34:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 50 slots 6% full −2−35%against this time yesterday
7-day average4peak 12
Rank#1,534top 7% · #228 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02.557.51001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 7% of all ranked servers, top 12% in NA, and #78 of the quad servers (top 9%). 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 8d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

32
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 18hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

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Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 32, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:52 UTC FW26d ago 32 – 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

Who runs BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab?

BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab and 5 other servers we track publish a battlezone.gg hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab?

You'll find BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot 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 Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab mean?

These are the tags BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab publishes for the browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules make it harsher; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; 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.

The players

How does BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab sits at #1,534, inside the top 7% of ranked servers and at #228 in North America. Within the quad category, it sits at #78.

How many players are on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab right now?

BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab is holding 3 players, with 50 slots in total. Peak for the week was 12, against an average of 4 players. Look at 01:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 7 players on average.

About the server

Is BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 86%, with 144 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 40 server fps, with a low of 34. The world carried as many as 146,514 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,192 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab located?

With its NA tag, BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab 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. You'll find it at 72.9.148.34:28015.

Which Rust version is BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 32 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 3 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab, 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. Its current world has been live for 26 days 6 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab run?

The procedural map on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab measures 4,000, generated by the game. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). It runs hardcore, Facepunch's most punishing mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join BattleZone.gg — Hardcore PvE | No Tech Tree | Skills | Raidab?

Enter client.connect 72.9.148.34:28015 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://battlezone.gg/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts4,^o^z

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode Hardcore rules make it harsher.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.