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The Maddogs

Online 85.115.209.250:26769 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#7,503top 34%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe3d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0014:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608012:0021:0006:0014:0000:0009:00

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 23 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
15k10k15k20k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 34% 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.

1.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 26 OctSat 24 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 26 Oct, 07:28 UTC3d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 24 Oct, 21:03 UTC4d ago 2 – 1.4 days 2

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 same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Maddogs?

You'll find The Maddogs on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on The Maddogs mean?

These are the tags The Maddogs publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does The Maddogs rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank The Maddogs at #7,503, within the top 34% of ranked servers.

How many players are on The Maddogs right now?

The current tally at The Maddogs: 0 players across 50 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is The Maddogs online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, The Maddogs is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 days 1 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 5 full days, 119 of 120 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 23 October 2026.

Does The Maddogs run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 60 server fps, with a low of 51. The world carried as many as 44,121 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,652 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is The Maddogs located?

No region is published by The Maddogs. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 85.115.209.250:26769.

Which Rust version is The Maddogs on?

On Linux, The Maddogs 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 The Maddogs when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on The Maddogs?

Too few wipes are on record for The Maddogs 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 3 days 3 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does The Maddogs run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 172134107 is what The Maddogs 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 The Maddogs?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on The Maddogs. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join The Maddogs?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.115.209.250:26769. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/XMdmNQW9Hx.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players There are 50 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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.