PVE Friends
Offline 81.159.186.17:28015 checked 40d ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include PVE Friends?
You'll find PVE Friends on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on PVE Friends mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from PVE Friends: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2633 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2633, so your client has to match it to join; cs164530 (Build): It's on game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
The players
How does PVE Friends rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place PVE Friends at #13,268, in the top – of all ranked servers.
How many players are on PVE Friends right now?
Offline now, PVE Friends was last spotted 40 days 5 hours ago.
Server facts
Is PVE Friends online, and how reliable is it?
The server PVE Friends is not online now; 40 days 5 hours have passed since it was last seen. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 19 September 2026.
Where is PVE Friends located?
No region is published by PVE Friends. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 81.159.186.17:28015.
Which Rust version is PVE Friends on?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 is the version PVE Friends runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on PVE Friends?
The record of PVE Friends's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 40 days 7 hours.
Map and rules
Which map does PVE Friends run?
The map on PVE Friends is procedural, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on PVE Friends?
No gather rate appears in the name of PVE Friends. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Join up
How do I join PVE Friends?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 81.159.186.17:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.