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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 3,338, its rank

The West Coast

Online NA 162.220.160.28:28080 checked 10m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 160 1% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 4
Rank · atomic number#3,338top 15% · #551 in NA
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 8hThu 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
00.511.5211:0020:0005:0013:0023:0008:00

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
05010015020011:0020:0005:0013:0023:0008:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 30% in NA. 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 8h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak4players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 31 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC FW27d ago 4 – 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

Settings and map

What map is in play on The West Coast?

The map on The West Coast is procedural at size 3,500 with seed 1337, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map. On the map name: Death Island.

What rules has The West Coast set, and what settings are in force?

The name of The West Coast carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server details

What region hosts The West Coast?

The West Coast gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 162.220.160.28:28080 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does The West Coast currently run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what The West Coast uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does The West Coast stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

At the moment, The West Coast is online. About 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. For the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is The West Coast known for smooth running?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 93 server fps, with a low of 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 72,848 entities. The highest memory usage was 5,091 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

How often does a wipe happen on The West Coast, and at what time?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what The West Coast does. 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 27 days 16 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

On The West Coast, what happens when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 4 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 31 hours after it began.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on The West Coast?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp160 (Max players): 160 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; 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; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America: that is the tag list The West Coast 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 The West Coast come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include The West Coast are: Modded Rust servers, measured and North American Rust servers: the sample. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Player counts

How does The West Coast compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours for the past seven days give The West Coast #3,338, #551 in North America, and a place in the top 15% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on The West Coast tell you?

At the moment The West Coast has 1 of its 160 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 1 players, peaking at 4. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 07:00 UTC, at 2 players.

Connection

How can you connect to The West Coast?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 162.220.160.28:28080. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp160,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp160
Max players 160 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

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

NA
North America In the browser it sits under North America.

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.