Players
Fossil's Playground
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 2 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 62% of all ranked servers, top 82% in OC, and #579 of the quad servers (top 70%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. 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, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 23:07 UTC19d ago | 1 | – | 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 Fossil's Playground online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Fossil's Playground is not running; the last sighting was 10 days 11 hours ago. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 0 of 168 hours, or 0% of the time. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 2 October 2026.
Where is Fossil's Playground located?
The OC tag is how Fossil's Playground lists its location: Oceania. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You'll find it at 51.161.198.94:28055.
Which version of Rust does Fossil's Playground run?
The build behind Fossil's Playground is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, hosted on Linux. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Player counts
How busy is Fossil's Playground?
Fossil's Playground shows as offline now, with its last appearance 10 days 11 hours ago.
How does Fossil's Playground rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put Fossil's Playground at #13,657, top 62% of ranked servers, and #177 in Oceania. #579 is where it sits in the quad group.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on Fossil's Playground?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on Fossil's Playground?
Once a month is the whole of it: Fossil's Playground wipes with the force wipe. 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 19 days 20 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
Settings and map
What are the rules and settings on Fossil's Playground?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Fossil's Playground. The group limit is 4 players, as stated in quad. You play softcore, Facepunch's gentler mode: some loot stays with you. You can fight and raid other players. In the server browser it is under Community, being a community server. Premium status is required to get in. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does Fossil's Playground run?
The map on Fossil's Playground is procedural, size 3,750, seed 3671786, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Fossil's Playground?
These Rust Charts lists include Fossil's Playground: Rust servers in Oceania and Rust community servers, unmodded. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Region: Oceania; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s and Premium ^q; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Fossil's Playground mean?
gmsoftcore (Game mode): This mode is softcore, the easier option; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634 to get in; cs167781 (Build): This server reports build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): One wipe a month, together with the force wipe; ^s (Softcore): On death you keep some of your inventory, as Facepunch's softcore mode allows; ^q (Premium): Premium status is required to get in; OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania — that's the set of tags Fossil's Playground 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.
Join details
How do I join Fossil's Playground?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 51.161.198.94:28055 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Premium status is required to get in.
