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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,373, its rank

The Ponderosa

Online 64.40.8.66:28019 checked 2h ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,373top 69%
Last wipe23d 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
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
01020304020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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 peak0players, last three wipes

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 0, 0 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 12:26 UTC23d ago 0 – 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 Ponderosa?

The map on The Ponderosa is procedural at size 5,800 with seed 1, made by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page. On the map name: Custom Map.

What settings and rules apply on The Ponderosa?

The name of The Ponderosa carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in 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 facts

Which location is The Ponderosa based in?

No region is published by The Ponderosa. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 64.40.8.66:28019 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does The Ponderosa operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what The Ponderosa uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How dependable is The Ponderosa for staying online?

The Ponderosa is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 14 days 12 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is The Ponderosa known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 29 server fps and a minimum of 8. The entity count reached 66,080, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 8,833 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 Ponderosa, and at what time?

The Ponderosa's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell 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 23 days 6 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on The Ponderosa involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 0 players at their busiest. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Ponderosa?

These are the tags The Ponderosa makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp40 (Max players): 40 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; 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): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded. 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 The Ponderosa come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry The Ponderosa: Modded Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does The Ponderosa place?

The Ponderosa sits at #15,373 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How full is The Ponderosa right now?

At the moment The Ponderosa has 0 of its 40 slots filled. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

Getting on

What steps get you onto The Ponderosa?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 64.40.8.66:28019, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp40
Max players 40 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
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 The plugin framework in use is 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.