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Operation Birddog
Online NA 89.28.237.37:28030 checked 10m ago
Players
Operation Birddog
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 54% of all ranked servers, top 73% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 19h. 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 2, 23 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW26d ago | 2 | – | running | 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
About the server
Is Operation Birddog online, and how reliable is it?
You will find Operation Birddog online at this moment. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 14 hours ago. It stayed up 100% of the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is Operation Birddog located?
Operation Birddog gives its location as North America, using the NA tag. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. You'll find it at 89.28.237.37:28030.
Which version of Rust does Operation Birddog run?
The build behind Operation Birddog is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Does Operation Birddog run smoothly?
Never under 5, and 5 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. At its fullest it held 75,898 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At most it took 2,748 MB of memory. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Population
How busy is Operation Birddog?
Operation Birddog has 0 of its 50 slots filled right now. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 1.
How does Operation Birddog rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours for the past week, Operation Birddog is #11,932: top 54% overall and #1,370 in North America.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on Operation Birddog?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 23 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on Operation Birddog?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all Operation Birddog runs. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next wipe, the force wipe that takes every Rust server. 26 days 6 hours is how long ago its current world was made. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on Operation Birddog?
No gather rate appears in the name Operation Birddog. Up to 8 players per group, as the game sets by default. pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded. The plugins it runs number Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does Operation Birddog run?
Operation Birddog runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 1, generated by the game. 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 Operation Birddog?
The Rust Charts lists that carry Operation Birddog are: Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers and Region: North America. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Operation Birddog mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from Operation Birddog: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, as the game ships it; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^p (PvE): No player fighting here: the world is what threatens you; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): This one is modded, so plugins or settings alter play; NA (North America): The server browser files this one under North America. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
Join details
How do I join Operation Birddog?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 89.28.237.37:28030 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.