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EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|

Online EU 212.73.137.40:28026 checked 13m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 6
Rank · atomic number#3,926top 18% · #1446 in EU
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 13hThu 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
0123406:0015:0001:0009:0018:0003:00

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
01020304006:0015:0001:0009:0018:0003:00

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 26 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
15k10k15k20k26 Sep3 Oct10 Oct16 Oct23 Oct30 Oct

Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 50% in EU. 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 6d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence

usual gap4.9 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak8players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 13hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctSat 26 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 1 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:56 UTC FW28d ago 6 – running 2
Sat 26 Sep, 21:30 UTC33d ago 9 halved by day 2 4.9 days 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 EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?

EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 1; the game generates it. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page. Its map carries the name: Custom Map.

How is EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| configured, and what rules apply?

The name of EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| carries no gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as pve, other players cannot be fought. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

What region hosts EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?

The EU tag is how EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| lists itself, in Europe. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 212.73.137.40:28026.

On what Rust version does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| stay online?

EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 14 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 26 September 2026.

How well does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| perform?

The last 48 hours show an average of 30 server fps and a minimum of 30. The entity count reached 95,000, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 3,833 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|, and at what time?

Once a month is all EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| 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. The world it is running now dates from 28 days 11 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

What does a typical wipe day on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 8 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 1 hours after it began. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 2.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): You fight the world, not other players; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded; EU (Europe): Europe is where the browser lists this server: that is the tag list EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| 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 EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| appear in?

You will find EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| on the following Rust Data Lab lists: EU Rust servers, measured, Modded Rust servers, measured and Best Rust PvE servers, measured live. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Population

How does EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours for the past seven days give EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| #3,926, #1,446 in Europe, and a place in the top 18% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| tell you?

At the moment EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere| has 0 of its 40 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 1 players, peaking at 6. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 12:00 UTC, when the average was 3 players.

How to join

How can you connect to EU Desert Life PVE |Custom mods & atmosphere|?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 212.73.137.40:28026, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/J2qmwCM73V.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,EU,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Player slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE You fight the world, not other players.

Mods and access

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

Region

EU
Europe Europe is where the browser lists this server.

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.