On air · chart position #5,212
Southern Grid AU
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 1h ago
Players
Southern Grid AU
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 23% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 0h. 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 1, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC26d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTC FW26d ago | 2 | – | 0.4 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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Quick answers
Server details
Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?
Southern Grid AU is up as you read this. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 21 hours ago. It stayed up 100% of the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is Southern Grid AU located?
Southern Grid AU gives its location as Oceania, using the OC tag. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 51.161.198.78:28070.
Which version of Rust does Southern Grid AU run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version Southern Grid AU runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 11 server fps; the lowest point was 5. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 122,719 entities. At most it took 3,730 MB of memory. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Who is on
How busy is Southern Grid AU?
Right now 0 players are on Southern Grid AU, out of 50 slots. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 4. 07:00 UTC was the peak of the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put Southern Grid AU at #5,212, top 23% of ranked servers, and #121 in Oceania.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on Southern Grid AU?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 35 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?
The force wipe is the only wipe on Southern Grid AU, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world in play was made 26 days 12 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on Southern Grid AU?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Southern Grid AU. Up to 8 players per group, as the game sets by default. survival is the game mode, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Oxide plugins are running on it. Vanilla is its own label: nothing is changed: rates, kits and rules are all Facepunch's own. Join only if you hold Rust's premium status. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does Southern Grid AU run?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1883130744, generated by the game, is what Southern Grid AU runs. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Southern Grid AU?
These Rust Charts lists include Southern Grid AU: Rust servers in Oceania, Rust community servers, unmodded and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Southern Grid AU mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from Southern Grid AU: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team size is capped at 8, the default; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): This server reports build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is changed: rates, kits and rules are all Facepunch's own; ^q (Premium): Join only if you hold Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide, also known as uMod; OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
Getting in
How do I join Southern Grid AU?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Join only if you hold Rust's premium status.