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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 2,227, its rank

GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's

Online AF 102.39.154.248:28015 checked 9m ago

2x biweekly wipes moddedoxidepve
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 1/ 50 2% full Room to join
7-day average2peak 8
Rank · atomic number#2,227top 10% · #3 in AF
Last wipe11h agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeakWipe
0246805:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 17:02 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
Server fpsWipe
05010015020005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 17:02 UTCWIPE

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 10% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

usual gap21 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm100%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak8players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 5.5

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 20d 12hThu 19 Nov, 17:02 UTC
  3. 34d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
  4. 41d 12hThu 10 Dec, 17:02 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 9, 27 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 17:02 UTC11h ago – – running 4
Thu 15 Oct, 16:49 UTC14d ago 9 halved by day 5 14 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:55 UTC FW28d ago – – 14 days 0
Thu 17 Sep, 17:03 UTC42d ago 7 halved by day 6 14 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

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's?

The map on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's is procedural at size 3,500 with seed 315228242, made by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What rules has GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's set, and what settings are in force?

The name says it: gather runs at 2x on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

What region hosts GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's?

GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's gives Africa as its location, using the AF tag. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 102.39.154.248:28015 is the address it uses.

Which Rust version is GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How reliably does GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's stay online?

Right now, GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 8 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's known for smooth running?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 106 server fps, with a low of 59. The entity count reached 103,568, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 3,550 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

How often does a wipe happen on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's, and at what time?

GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's runs on a wipe rhythm of every 3 weeks on Thursday at 17:02 UTC. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. Counting back, the current world began 11 hours ago. A two-weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

What does a typical wipe day on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 8 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 27 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 5.5.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's?

gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks, the server wipes; ^p (PvE): The threat comes from the world, not from other players; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; AF (Africa): In the browser it sits under Africa; rustmaps (Custom tag): This is not one of Rust's standard tags: an owner or a plugin added it: that is the tag list GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's are: 2x gather rate servers, Modded Rust servers, measured and Best Rust PvE servers, measured live. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Africa; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Gather rate: 2x.

Player numbers

What position does GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's hold among Rust servers?

Player hours for the past seven days give GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's #2,227, #3 in Africa, and a place in the top 10% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's tell you?

GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's currently shows 1 players across 50 slots. Averaged over the past week: 2 players, peaking at 8. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.

Getting on

What is the way to join GRUFF ZONE ZA 2X | Raidable Bases | Kits | Roaming NPC's?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 102.39.154.248:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. For more, visit http://gruffzone.co.za.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,AF,^p,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z,rustmaps

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival, vanilla style.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly Every two weeks, the server wipes.

Gameplay

^p
PvE The threat comes from the world, not from other players.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

Region

AF
Africa In the browser it sits under Africa.

Other

rustmaps
Custom tag This is not one of Rust's standard tags: an owner or a plugin added it.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.