Players
The Grubs Empire
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 29 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 26% of all ranked servers, top 64% in EU, and #277 of the duo servers (top 66%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 16:24 UTC16h ago | – | – | 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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Quick answers
About the server
Is The Grubs Empire online, and how reliable is it?
You will not get on The Grubs Empire just now: it is offline, last seen 11 hours ago. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. Rust Charts has tracked it since 29 October 2026.
Where is The Grubs Empire located?
The EU tag is how The Grubs Empire lists its location: Europe. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. You'll find it at 144.76.91.226:28005.
Which version of Rust does The Grubs Empire run?
The build behind The Grubs Empire is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does The Grubs Empire run smoothly?
It averaged 60 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 60. At its fullest it held 17,354 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 1,113 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Population
How busy is The Grubs Empire?
The Grubs Empire is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 11 hours ago. Averaging 4 players across seven days, it reached 6 at most. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.
How does The Grubs Empire rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put The Grubs Empire at #5,868, top 26% of ranked servers, and #1,854 in Europe. In the duo group, this one holds rank #277.
Wipes and resets
What is the wipe schedule on The Grubs Empire?
The tag sets the prediction for The Grubs Empire, as too few of its wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe lands, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 16 hours. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on The Grubs Empire?
No gather rate appears in the name The Grubs Empire. duo gives a group limit of 2 players. You play survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser shows it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide plugins running. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does The Grubs Empire run?
A procedural map of size 2,000 with seed 168909, generated by the game, is what The Grubs Empire runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Grubs Empire?
These Rust Charts lists include The Grubs Empire: Duo Rust servers, EU Rust servers and Modded Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
What do the server tags on The Grubs Empire mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 slots; ts2 (Group limit): The team cap is 2; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what runs here; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; ^o (Oxide): Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Listed as modded because plugins or settings differ from the base game; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe — that's the set of tags The Grubs Empire publishes for the server browser. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join The Grubs Empire?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 144.76.91.226:28005 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
