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Sheltered Rust

Offline NA 75.35.76.144:30002 checked 12h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 20 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,452top 69% · #1537 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0001:0008:0014:0021:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020018:0001:0008:0014:0021:0004:00

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 1 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct6 Oct11 Oct18 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 82% in NA, and #628 of the quad servers (top 76%). 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 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 1hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:11 UTC FW26d ago 0 – 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Sheltered Rust?

You'll find Sheltered Rust 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. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Sheltered Rust mean?

For the server browser, Sheltered Rust lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp20 (Max players): It has 20 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; 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.

Population

How does Sheltered Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Sheltered Rust takes #15,452 on seven-day player hours, a top 69% spot overall and #1,537 across North America. The quad field places it at #628.

How many players are on Sheltered Rust right now?

Sheltered Rust went quiet 12 hours ago and is offline at the moment. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is Sheltered Rust online, and how reliable is it?

The server Sheltered Rust is not online now; 12 hours have passed since it was last seen. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 23 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 1 October 2026.

Does Sheltered Rust run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 138, with 124 as the lowest. At its peak it held 117,362 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,253 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Sheltered Rust located?

With its NA tag, Sheltered Rust lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 75.35.76.144:30002.

Which Rust version is Sheltered Rust on?

On Linux, Sheltered Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Sheltered Rust when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Sheltered Rust?

Wipes on Sheltered Rust come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 22 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does Sheltered Rust run?

Generated by the game with seed 1854078996, the map on Sheltered Rust is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Sheltered Rust?

The name of Sheltered Rust says nothing about gather rate. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). It runs pve, no fighting other players. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Sheltered Rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 75.35.76.144:30002. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/8hkzUyqBaT.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^p,^m,NA,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The mode is vanilla survival.
mp20
Max players It has 20 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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

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.