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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,335, its rank

El Goon Server

Online 198.73.57.178:28025 checked 10m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 30 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,335top 69%
Last wipe39d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
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
0123410:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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
05010015020010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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 19 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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

wipe-day peak5players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 25 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 19 Sep, 17:10 UTC39d ago 5 – running 2

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 El Goon Server?

El Goon Server runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 648252; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What rules has El Goon Server set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of El Goon Server. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

In what location does El Goon Server sit?

No region is published by El Goon Server. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 198.73.57.178:28025 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does El Goon Server operate?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows is what El Goon Server uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does El Goon Server stay online?

Right now, El Goon Server is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 days 2 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 19 September 2026.

Does El Goon Server hold a steady performance?

The last 48 hours show an average of 98 server fps and a minimum of 85. The entity count reached 70,577, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 5,344 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on El Goon Server, and at what time?

The record holds too few of El Goon Server's wipes to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 39 days 16 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on El Goon Server involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 5 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 25 hours after it began.

Where it appears

What should you understand from the tags El Goon Server carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp30 (Max players): It has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): Build number: 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded: that is the tag list El Goon Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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 El Goon Server come up?

You will find El Goon Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does El Goon Server place?

Player hours over the last week put El Goon Server at #15,335, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does El Goon Server have at the moment?

El Goon Server currently shows 0 players across 30 slots. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.

How to join

How can you connect to El Goon Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 198.73.57.178:28025, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp30
Max players It has 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build Build number: 164530.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded.

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.