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Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob

Online NA · us5 91.229.114.45:28131 checked 48m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 200 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 3
Rank#3,743top 17% · #616 in NA
Regionus5NA · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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 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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 17% of all ranked servers, top 33% in NA. 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 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 1hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 22, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:37 UTC FW27d ago 22 – running 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, 2x Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 2x.

What do the server tags on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob mean?

For the server browser, Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp200 (Max players): There are 200 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $rus5 (Region code): It carries region code us5; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^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; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob rank against other Rust servers?

Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob takes #3,743 on seven-day player hours, a top 17% spot overall and #616 across North America.

How many players are on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob right now?

Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob is holding 1 players, with 200 slots in total. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 3. Look at 23:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 2 players on average.

About the server

Is Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob online, and how reliable is it?

Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob is live at the moment. About 3 minutes ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 57, and it never went below 43. Entities reached a maximum of 97,039: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,813 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob located?

With its NA tag, Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob places itself in North America; its region code is us5. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 91.229.114.45:28131.

Which Rust version is Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 22 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

The rules

Which map does Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob run?

Generated by the game with seed 1622533096, the map on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob is procedural and 4,000 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob?

Going by its name, Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob runs 2x gather. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Retrofied | 1/4th Upkeep | Monthly | Vanilla | 2x Nodes | Noob?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 91.229.114.45:28131. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/zYcwHtHGFw.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$rus5,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp200
Max players There are 200 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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$rus5
Region code It carries region code us5.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^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.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.