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Celebrity profile

theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT

Online 85.172.104.178:35380 checked 10m ago

3x biweekly wipes moddedoxide
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Vital stats

Players now 4/ 100 slots 4% full +2+67%against this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 11
Rank#1,863top 8%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe14h agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
0510152021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 06:15 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
02040608021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 06:15 UTCWIPE

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers. 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 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

21 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
11
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
33%
crowd held
else halves by day 10.5

Coming wipes

6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
20d 9hThu 19 Nov, 06:15 UTC
34d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
41d 9hThu 10 Dec, 06:15 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 13, 11 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 06:15 UTC14h ago – – running 1
Thu 15 Oct, 06:59 UTC14d ago 13 – – 1
Thu 1 Oct, 18:20 UTC FW28d ago 11 held half 13.5 days 1
Thu 17 Sep, 07:12 UTC42d ago 10 halved by day 10 14.5 days 1

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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT?

You'll find theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 3x Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Gather rate: 3x.

What do the server tags on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT mean?

For the server browser, theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks it wipes; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; oxidation (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT at #1,863, in the top 8% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT right now?

The current tally at theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT: 4 players across 100 slots. Averaging 3 players across seven days, it topped out at 11. Look at 17:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 10 players on average.

About the server

Is theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT is online. About 12 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 163, a 97% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 58, and it never went below 31. At its peak it held 148,798 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 4,836 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT located?

No region is published by theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 85.172.104.178:35380.

Which Rust version is theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT on?

On Windows, theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 11 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 11 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 33% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 10.5.

What is the wipe schedule on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT?

theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT keeps to a every 3 weeks on Thursday at 06:15 UTC wipe rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 14 hours. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.

The rules

Which map does theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT run?

A procedural map of 4,096 with seed 762259399 is what theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT 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 Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT?

Gather comes at 3x on theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT, according to its name. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join theBest | X3 | TP | SETHOME | NOLIMIT?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.172.104.178:35380. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://thebestx3.ru/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z,oxidation

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly Every two weeks it wipes.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Other

oxidation
Custom tag The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust.

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.