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Westerwald PVE

Online 5.39.17.35:28015 checked 13m ago

pve
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 5 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#10,124top 46%
Last wipe25d 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
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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
05010015020013:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 46% 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 peak2players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 11:55 UTC25d ago 2 – 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on Westerwald PVE?

A procedural map of size 5,000 with seed 50000 runs on Westerwald PVE, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

How is Westerwald PVE configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Westerwald PVE. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as pve, other players cannot be fought. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

In what location does Westerwald PVE sit?

Nothing about a region is published by Westerwald PVE. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 5.39.17.35:28015.

On what Rust version does Westerwald PVE operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Westerwald PVE uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does Westerwald PVE stay online?

Right now, Westerwald PVE is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 19 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is Westerwald PVE known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 81 over the last 48 hours, with 45 as the lowest. The entity count reached 140,068, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 5,168 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

When does Westerwald PVE wipe, and how often?

Too few wipes are on record for Westerwald PVE to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 25 days ago.

On Westerwald PVE, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Recent wipes on average reached 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 1 hours after it began.

Where it appears

What should you understand from the tags Westerwald PVE carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): Player slots: 5; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; 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): No region code is set; ^p (PvE): The threat comes from the world, not from other players: that is the tag list Westerwald PVE 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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Westerwald PVE appear in?

You will find Westerwald PVE on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured and Best Rust PvE servers, measured live. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does Westerwald PVE place?

The seven-day player-hours table has Westerwald PVE at #10,124, in the top 46% of ranked servers.

How many players does Westerwald PVE have at the moment?

Of 5 slots, 0 are taken on Westerwald PVE right now. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top.

Connection

What is the way to join Westerwald PVE?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 5.39.17.35:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players Player slots: 5.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
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 No region code is set.

Gameplay

^p
PvE The threat comes from the world, not from other players.

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.