Element card · group PvE · atomic number 15,405, its rank
The Rusty Rifle
Online NA 104.128.50.78:28015 checked 12m ago
Players
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
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 83% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 19hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 22 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 18:23 UTC23d 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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on The Rusty Rifle?
The map on The Rusty Rifle is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 292611345, made by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.
How is The Rusty Rifle configured, and what rules apply?
The name of The Rusty Rifle carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as pve, other players cannot be fought. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Oxide. This server is premium only. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
In what location does The Rusty Rifle sit?
The NA tag is how The Rusty Rifle lists itself, in North America. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 104.128.50.78:28015.
On what Rust version does The Rusty Rifle operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 on Linux is what The Rusty Rifle uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How reliably does The Rusty Rifle stay online?
At the moment, The Rusty Rifle is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 minutes ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.
Is The Rusty Rifle known for smooth running?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 110 server fps, with a low of 93. The entity count reached 139,395, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 3,987 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
What is the wiping pattern on The Rusty Rifle?
The only wipe on The Rusty Rifle is the monthly force wipe. 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 23 days 4 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.
What does a typical wipe day on The Rusty Rifle involve?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. 22 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
Where it appears
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Rusty Rifle?
gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^p (PvE): The threat comes from the world, not from other players; ^q (Premium): This server is premium only; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; NA (North America): North America is where the browser lists this server: that is the tag list The Rusty Rifle 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.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does The Rusty Rifle appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include The Rusty Rifle are: Modded Rust servers, measured, Best Rust PvE servers, measured live and North American Rust servers: the sample. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Player counts
How does The Rusty Rifle compare with other servers in the rankings?
Seven-day player hours place The Rusty Rifle at #15,405 overall, #1,549 in North America and in the top 69% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on The Rusty Rifle tell you?
At the moment The Rusty Rifle has 0 of its 50 slots filled. The past week gives an average of 0 players.
Getting on
How can you connect to The Rusty Rifle?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 104.128.50.78:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. This server is premium only. You can find its website at https://chicagoservers.co.