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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 11,341, its rank

Pigs

Online NA 66.51.96.87:28000 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#11,341top 51% · #1329 in NA
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 0hThu 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
0123419:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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
0246819:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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 1 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 51% of all ranked servers, top 71% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

usual gap0.8 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak2players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 1 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 25 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 21:58 UTC FW27d ago 2 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 02:22 UTC28d ago 2 – 0.8 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

Settings and map

What map is in play on Pigs?

Pigs runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 1337; 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 Pigs set, and what settings are in force?

Nothing in the name of Pigs gives a gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. 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. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

In what location does Pigs sit?

Pigs gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 66.51.96.87:28000 is the address it uses.

Which Rust version is Pigs on?

On Linux, Pigs is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Pigs stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, Pigs is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 6 days 16 hours ago. It was online for 166 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. On 1 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is Pigs known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with 5 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 48,415, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory usage was 2,435 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe schedule

When does Pigs wipe, and how often?

Once a month is all Pigs 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. 27 days 17 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

How does Pigs look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 25 hours in.

Where it appears

What should you understand from the tags Pigs carries?

The game's server browser reads the tags Pigs publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): The threat comes from the world, not from other players; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Pigs come up?

You will find Pigs on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured, Best Rust PvE servers, measured live and North American Rust servers: the sample. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: 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.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does Pigs place?

Seven-day player hours place Pigs at #11,341 overall, #1,329 in North America and in the top 51% of ranked servers.

How full is Pigs right now?

Pigs currently shows 0 players across 50 slots. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top.

Connection

What steps get you onto Pigs?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 66.51.96.87:28000. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

Region

NA
North America In the browser it sits 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.