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[US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event

Online NA 91.229.114.64:28015 checked 2h ago

5x biweekly wipes moddedcarbonpve
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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 70 slots 1% full −1−48%against this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 5
Rank#3,394top 15% · #562 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe6d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246820:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 30% in NA. 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 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
21d 23hThu 19 Nov, 18:43 UTC
35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 1 OctThu 24 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 8 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 18:43 UTC6d ago 3 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:36 UTC FW27d ago 4 halved by day 2 21 days 0
Thu 24 Sep, 18:57 UTC34d ago 5 halved by day 2 6.9 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

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Server tags

Who runs [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

A szservers.com hostname is published by [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event and by 5 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event: The 5x scene, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, The roleplay set, by the numbers, Rust zombie servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp70 (Max players): Slots: 70; 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes on a two-week cycle; ^r (Roleplay): Roleplay is the focus here; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event sits at #3,394, inside the top 15% of ranked servers and at #562 in North America.

How many players are on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event right now?

1 players are on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event at the moment, out of 70 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 5. Look at 23:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 5 players on average.

Server facts

Is [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 99 server fps, with a low of 50. Entities reached a maximum of 137,089: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,967 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event located?

With its NA tag, [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 91.229.114.64:28015.

Which Rust version is [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 4 players. 8 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

[US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event keeps to a every 4 weeks on Thursday at 18:43 UTC wipe rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 6 days. The tags list a fortnightly wipe schedule.

The rules

Which map does [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event run?

The procedural map on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1337. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

Going by its name, [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event runs 5x gather. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. roleplay is the game mode, jobs and towns under roleplay rules. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [US] Salty Zombies PvPvE 5x | Skills | Raid | Jetpack | Event?

Enter client.connect 91.229.114.64:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/hTZdV739pX.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp70,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^b,^r,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp70
Max players Slots: 70.
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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly It wipes on a two-week cycle.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay Roleplay is the focus here.
^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is 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.