Players
vanilla +
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 14% of all ranked servers, top 38% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. 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 5, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 Oct, 10:32 UTC11d ago | 5 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 18 Oct, 04:22 UTC11d ago | 5 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:56 UTC FW27d ago | 5 | halved by day 6 | 16.4 days | 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 vanilla + online, and how reliable is it?
Right now vanilla + is running. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 4 days 6 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours is what it managed over the past 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Charts has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Where is vanilla + located?
With its OC tag, vanilla + puts itself in Oceania. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. Connect at 51.161.219.251:28020.
Which version of Rust does vanilla + run?
The build behind vanilla + 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 vanilla + run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 11 server fps; the lowest point was 5. At its fullest it held 122,014 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 5,266 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Population
How busy is vanilla +?
On vanilla +, 0 players are in and 75 slots are the ceiling. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it reached 8 at most. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 06:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
How does vanilla + rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put vanilla + at #3,015, top 14% of ranked servers, and #82 in Oceania.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on vanilla +?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 5 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Half the peak was the floor until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 6 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on vanilla +?
Once a month is the whole of it: vanilla + wipes with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next wipe, the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 11 days 1 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on vanilla +?
No gather rate appears in the name vanilla +. The group limit is 16 players. You play survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP is on: players fight and raid. Modded in the server browser is where it sits; plugins or settings alter the game. The plugins it runs number Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does vanilla + run?
The map on vanilla + is procedural, size 4,300, seed 1337, made by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map. You will see the map name as: Custom Map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include vanilla +?
These Rust Charts lists include vanilla +: Rust servers in Oceania and Modded Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on vanilla + mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from vanilla +: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, in the standard Rust form; mp75 (Max players): 75 slots are available; ts16 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 16; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): One wipe a month, together with the force wipe; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; OC (Oceania): The server browser files this one under Oceania. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Getting in
How do I join vanilla +?
Enter client.connect 51.161.219.251:28020 in the console, which F1 opens once Rust is running. Launch Rust and join on this page is the other way: Rust opens through Steam and connects you.
