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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 6,735, its rank

Sanctuary Rust PVE

Online NA 66.51.96.72:28030 checked 7m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 2
Rank · atomic number#6,735top 30% · #1054 in NA
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 20hThu 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
00.511.5223:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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
02040608023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 30% of all ranked servers, top 57% 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

usual gap14 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak5players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 20hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 5 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW27d ago 4 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 18:31 UTC41d ago 6 halved by day 5 14 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

A procedural map of size 3,650 with seed 214404319 runs on Sanctuary Rust PVE, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What settings and rules apply on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

The name of Sanctuary Rust PVE carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Plugins in use: Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

What region hosts Sanctuary Rust PVE?

The NA tag is how Sanctuary Rust PVE lists itself, in North America. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 66.51.96.72:28030.

What Rust version does Sanctuary Rust PVE currently run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Sanctuary Rust PVE uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How reliably does Sanctuary Rust PVE stay online?

At the moment, Sanctuary Rust PVE is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 17 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 165 of 168 hours were online, giving 98% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Does Sanctuary Rust PVE hold a steady performance?

Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours, with 55 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 115,130 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,712 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

Once a month is all Sanctuary Rust PVE wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 4 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

What does a typical wipe day on Sanctuary Rust PVE involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 5 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 5 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 5 when it didn't hold.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags Sanctuary Rust PVE carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): There is no player combat here, only the world's threats; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America: that is the tag list Sanctuary Rust 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 Sanctuary Rust PVE appear in?

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

Who is behind Sanctuary Rust PVE?

No other server we track shares the sanctuarypve.com hostname that Sanctuary Rust PVE publishes.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does Sanctuary Rust PVE place?

Player hours for the past seven days give Sanctuary Rust PVE #6,735, #1,054 in North America, and a place in the top 30% of ranked servers.

How many players does Sanctuary Rust PVE have at the moment?

At the moment Sanctuary Rust PVE has 0 of its 50 slots filled. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 2. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 21:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Getting on

What steps get you onto Sanctuary Rust PVE?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.96.72:28030, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. You can find its website at https://sanctuaryrust.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

^p
PvE There is no player combat here, only the world's threats.

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.

Region

NA
North America The server browser files it 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.