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| VF | Hardcore | PvP |

Online 104.129.133.111:28041 checked 7m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 3
Rank · atomic number#4,430top 20%
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 11hThu 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
AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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
01020304008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 20% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 11hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 5 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC FW27d ago 1 – 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

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

A procedural map of size 4,500 runs on | VF | Hardcore | PvP |, generated by the game.

How is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | configured, and what rules apply?

Nothing in the name of | VF | Hardcore | PvP | gives a gather rate. Nothing is published about a group limit. Play runs as hardcore, Facepunch's toughest setting. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Carbon plugins are running on it. This server is premium only. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

Which location is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | based in?

Nothing about a region is published by | VF | Hardcore | PvP |. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 104.129.133.111:28041 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what | VF | Hardcore | PvP | uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

| VF | Hardcore | PvP | is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 23 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

How well does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | perform?

Server fps averaged 30 over the last 48 hours, with 17 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 125,400, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory usage was 3,956 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe schedule

When does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | wipe, and how often?

The only wipe on | VF | Hardcore | PvP | 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. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 11 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

What does a typical wipe day on | VF | Hardcore | PvP | involve?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 1 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 5 hours after it began.

Tags, lists

How should you read the tags on | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

These are the tags | VF | Hardcore | PvP | makes public for the server browser to read: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are not available on this server; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch, with fewer helpers and tougher survival; ^y (Carbon): This server uses the Carbon plugin framework; ^q (Premium): This server is premium only. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | come up?

You will find | VF | Hardcore | PvP | on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Player counts

How does | VF | Hardcore | PvP | compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours over the last week put | VF | Hardcore | PvP | at #4,430, inside the top 20% of ranked servers.

How full is | VF | Hardcore | PvP | right now?

| VF | Hardcore | PvP | currently shows 0 players across 40 slots. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 3 at the top. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 22:00 UTC, when the average was 2 players.

How to join

What steps get you onto | VF | Hardcore | PvP |?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 104.129.133.111:28041. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. This server is premium only. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/VanillaFudge.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^h,gmhardcore,cs168909,^q,ts0

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts0
Group limit Teams are not available on this server.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Hardcore mode from Facepunch, with fewer helpers and tougher survival.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon This server uses the Carbon plugin framework.
^q
Premium This server is premium only.

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.