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BGS-Germany

Online 78.42.173.12:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 69 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#5,898top 27%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75109:0018:0003:0012:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510009:0018:0003:0012:0022:0007:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 27% of all ranked servers. 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.

3
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 3, 6 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 10:57 UTC26d ago 3 – 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 BGS-Germany?

You'll find BGS-Germany on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Vanilla ^v and PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on BGS-Germany mean?

For the server browser, BGS-Germany lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp69 (Max players): There are 69 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; 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; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does BGS-Germany rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place BGS-Germany at #5,898, in the top 27% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on BGS-Germany right now?

0 players are on BGS-Germany at the moment, out of 69 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Look at 11:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.

Server facts

Is BGS-Germany online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, BGS-Germany is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 20 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does BGS-Germany run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 83 server fps, with a low of 51. At its peak it held 206,646 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 5,002 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is BGS-Germany located?

Its name points to Europe, although BGS-Germany publishes no region tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 78.42.173.12:28015.

Which Rust version is BGS-Germany on?

On Windows, BGS-Germany runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on BGS-Germany when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 6 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on BGS-Germany?

Too few wipes are on record for BGS-Germany to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 21 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does BGS-Germany run?

A procedural map of 6,000 with seed 1058929173 is what BGS-Germany runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on BGS-Germany?

The name of BGS-Germany says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. pve is the game mode, no fighting other players. It appears under Community in the browser. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join BGS-Germany?

Enter client.connect 78.42.173.12:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp69,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp69
Max players There are 69 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
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.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

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

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.