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[EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly

Online EU · ger 78.46.45.124:28015 checked 6m ago

quad biweekly wipes moddedcarbon
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full −7−100%against this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 9
Rank#1,898top 9% · #739 in EU
RegiongerEU · group quad
Last wipe13d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246823:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 9% of all ranked servers, top 25% in EU, and #104 of the quad servers (top 13%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
11
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
50%
crowd held
else halves by day 7

Coming wipes

7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 20hThu 12 Nov, 19:01 UTC
35d 20hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 20hThu 10 Dec, 19:01 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 21 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 19:01 UTC13d ago 7 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 16 halved by day 7 14.1 days 1
Thu 17 Sep, 18:36 UTC41d ago 9 held half 14 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

Who runs [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly?

[EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly publishes a protobit.space hostname, and 1 other server we track does too, so the same operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly?

You'll find [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Tutorial on ^t, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly mean?

For the server browser, [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptsw (Networking): 'sw' is the network layer used here; $rger (Region code): Coded to region ger; ^b (Biweekly): The server wipes every fortnight; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players 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; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly sits at #1,898, inside the top 9% of ranked servers and at #739 in Europe. It comes in at #104 among quad servers.

How many players are on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly right now?

0 players are on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaging 3 players across seven days, it topped out at 9. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 7 players.

Server facts

Is [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 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 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 109 server fps, with a low of 90. Entities reached a maximum of 102,981: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,727 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly located?

In Europe, [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly is listed with the EU tag; region code: ger. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 78.46.45.124:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly on?

On Linux, [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 11 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 21 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 50% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 7.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly?

[EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly keeps to a every 4 weeks on Thursday at 19:01 UTC wipe rhythm. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 13 days 3 hours. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.

The rules

Which map does [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1337 is what [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Modified Procedural Map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched off.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Protobit: No Offline | Shared BPs | Max 4 | Linux Friendly?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 78.46.45.124:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://wiki.protobit.space/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptsw,$rger,v2635,^z,^y,^b,EU,^t,gmrust,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4 players.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptsw
Networking 'sw' is the network layer used here.
$rger
Region code Coded to region ger.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly The server wipes every fortnight.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players 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

EU
Europe In the server browser it sits under Europe.

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.