The Hill Top
Online 81.16.176.157:7056 checked 13m 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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 33% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 7 Oct, 09:06 UTC22d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 04:19 UTC27d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 5.2 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Hill Top?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Hill Top: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Hill Top mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Hill Top: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; 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): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. 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 The Hill Top rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #7,302 puts The Hill Top in the top 33% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Hill Top right now?
The current tally at The Hill Top: 0 players across 40 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 14:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Server facts
Is The Hill Top online, and how reliable is it?
The Hill Top is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does The Hill Top run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 80, with 28 as the lowest. At its peak it held 105,552 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,389 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is The Hill Top located?
There is no region from The Hill Top. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 81.16.176.157:7056.
Which Rust version is The Hill Top on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Hill Top runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
The wipe schedule
What happens on The Hill Top when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on The Hill Top?
Too few wipes are on record for The Hill Top to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 22 days.
The rules
Which map does The Hill Top run?
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 1 is what The Hill Top runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The Hill Top?
The name of The Hill Top says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join The Hill Top?
Enter client.connect 81.16.176.157:7056 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.