Cali.gg - VIP Previews
Online NA 91.229.114.13:28025 checked 8m 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 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA, and #620 of the quad servers (top 75%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 7 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 28 Oct, 18:21 UTC17h ago | – | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 14 Oct, 18:06 UTC14d ago | 3+1 queue | – | 14 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:53 UTC FW27d ago | 1+1 queue | halved by day 12 | 13 days | 1 |
| Wed 30 Sep, 23:58 UTC28d ago | 2+1 queue | – | 0.7 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
Who runs Cali.gg - VIP Previews?
Cali.gg - VIP Previews publishes a cali.gg hostname, and 1 other server we track does too, so the same operator most likely runs them.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Cali.gg - VIP Previews?
You'll find Cali.gg - VIP Previews on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
What do the server tags on Cali.gg - VIP Previews mean?
These are the tags Cali.gg - VIP Previews publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp0 (Max players): There are 0 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^b (Biweekly): The server wipes every fortnight; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; ^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; modded (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
The players
How does Cali.gg - VIP Previews rank against other Rust servers?
Cali.gg - VIP Previews takes #15,318 on seven-day player hours, a top 69% spot overall and #1,506 across North America. It comes in at #620 among quad servers.
How many players are on Cali.gg - VIP Previews right now?
The count at Cali.gg - VIP Previews right now: 0 players. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Server facts
Is Cali.gg - VIP Previews online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Cali.gg - VIP Previews is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 hours ago. It was up 3% of the time over the last 7 full days, 5 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 16 September 2026.
Does Cali.gg - VIP Previews run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 79 server fps, with a low of 77. Entities reached a maximum of 109,065: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,399 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Cali.gg - VIP Previews located?
Cali.gg - VIP Previews uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 91.229.114.13:28025.
Which Rust version is Cali.gg - VIP Previews on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Cali.gg - VIP Previews runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on Cali.gg - VIP Previews when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. With 1 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 7 hours after the wipe. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 12 whenever it did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on Cali.gg - VIP Previews?
Too few wipes are recorded on Cali.gg - VIP Previews to confirm its schedule, so its tag drives the prediction. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 17 hours. A wipe every two weeks is what its tags promise.
Map and rules
Which map does Cali.gg - VIP Previews run?
Generated by the game with seed 2833, the map on Cali.gg - VIP Previews is procedural and 4,250 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. Cali.gg Maps is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on Cali.gg - VIP Previews?
The name of Cali.gg - VIP Previews says nothing about gather rate. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Cali.gg - VIP Previews?
Enter client.connect 91.229.114.13:28025 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://cali.gg.