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Element card · group Community · atomic number 10,274, its rank

| VF | Softcore | PvP |

Online 104.129.133.41:28049 checked 7m ago

quad monthly wipes carbonsoftcorepremium
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#10,274top 46%
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 19hThu 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
0123400:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00

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
01020304000:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 46% of all ranked servers, and #504 of the quad servers (top 61%). 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 8d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 19hThu 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, 20 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC FW26d 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 | Softcore | PvP |?

The map on | VF | Softcore | PvP | is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 101042635, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What rules has | VF | Softcore | PvP | set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of | VF | Softcore | PvP |. The group cap is 4 players (quad). Play runs as softcore, Facepunch's softer mode: part of your loot stays with you. Raids and player fights are part of play here. It appears under Community in the server browser. Plugins in use: Carbon. Joining requires Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

In what location does | VF | Softcore | PvP | sit?

No region is published by | VF | Softcore | PvP |. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. Connect at 104.129.133.41:28049.

What Rust version does | VF | Softcore | PvP | currently run?

On Linux, | VF | Softcore | PvP | is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

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

| VF | Softcore | PvP | is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 15 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, giving 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is | VF | Softcore | PvP | known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 29 over the last 48 hours, with 12 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 123,604 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,937 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

Once a month is all | VF | Softcore | PvP | wipes, with the force wipe. The next time this server wipes will be the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which wipes every Rust server. Counting back, the current world began 26 days 3 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

On | VF | Softcore | PvP |, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 20 hours in.

Tags, lists

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

The game's server browser reads the tags | VF | Softcore | PvP | publishes, which are gmsoftcore (Game mode): The rules are softcore, which is easier; mp40 (Max players): 40 is the slot count; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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; ^s (Softcore): Die here and you keep some inventory: that is Facepunch's softcore mode; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework here is Carbon; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does | VF | Softcore | PvP | appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry | VF | Softcore | PvP |: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Premium ^q and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Player numbers

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

| VF | Softcore | PvP | sits at #10,274 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 46% of ranked servers. Within quad, its rank is #504.

How many players does | VF | Softcore | PvP | have at the moment?

| VF | Softcore | PvP | currently shows 0 players across 40 slots. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 1.

Connection

How can you connect to | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 104.129.133.41:28049. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically. Joining requires Rust's premium status. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/VanillaFudge.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs168909,^q,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode The rules are softcore, which is easier.
mp40
Max players 40 is the slot count.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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

^s
Softcore Die here and you keep some inventory: that is Facepunch's softcore mode.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon The plugin framework here is Carbon.
^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.