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[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe

Online EU 85.228.18.151:28014 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 175 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#4,320top 19% · #1548 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5216:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers, top 53% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 3hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 13 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 08:46 UTC26d ago 5 – running 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

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Tags

Who runs [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

No other server we track uses the northern-gaming.com hostname that [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe publishes.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe: European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp175 (Max players): It has 175 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. 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 [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe rank against other Rust servers?

[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe takes #4,320 on seven-day player hours, a top 19% spot overall and #1,548 across Europe.

How many players are on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe right now?

0 players are on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe at the moment, out of 175 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 23:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe is live at the moment. About 2 days 9 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 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 30. Entities reached a maximum of 106,733: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,046 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe located?

[EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe uses its EU tag to list itself in Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 85.228.18.151:28014.

Which Rust version is [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 5 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 13 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

Wipes on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 26 days 6 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe run?

A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 642994646 is what [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Oxide plugins are running on it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Northern-Gaming | DUO | MONTHLY | Fresh Wipe?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.228.18.151:28014. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/yMyYn8Tf2C.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp175,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp175
Max players It has 175 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it 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.