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Natural Selection

Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 9m ago

teams off monthly wipes moddedoxidehardcorepremium
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 75 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#10,181top 46% · #2253 in EU
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
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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
0246819:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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 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 46% of all ranked servers, top 77% 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 7d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

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

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.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 22:31 UTC FW27d 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

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Server setup

What map is in play on Natural Selection?

The map on Natural Selection is procedural at size 6,000, made by the game.

What settings and rules apply on Natural Selection?

No gather rate appears in the name of Natural Selection. No group limit is published. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's toughest setting. Raids and player fights are part of play here. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Oxide. This server is premium only. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which location is Natural Selection based in?

The EU tag is how Natural Selection lists itself, in Europe. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 66.51.97.50:28010 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does Natural Selection operate?

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

How dependable is Natural Selection for staying online?

At the moment, Natural Selection is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. On 1 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is Natural Selection known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with 5 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 204,250, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 5,073 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe schedule

What is the wiping pattern on Natural Selection?

The only wipe on Natural Selection is the monthly 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. 27 days 20 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

How does Natural Selection look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 1 hours in.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Natural Selection?

gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp75 (Max players): It has 75 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is disabled; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 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): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch, with fewer helpers and tougher survival; ^q (Premium): This server is premium only; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; EU (Europe): The server browser files it under Europe: that is the tag list Natural Selection 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 Natural Selection appear in?

You will find Natural Selection on the following Rust Data Lab lists: EU Rust servers, measured and Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does Natural Selection place?

Seven-day player hours place Natural Selection at #10,181 overall, #2,253 in Europe and in the top 46% of ranked servers.

How full is Natural Selection right now?

Of 75 slots, 0 are taken on Natural Selection right now. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 1.

Connection

What is the way to join Natural Selection?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. This server is premium only.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^h,EU,gmhardcore,cs168909,^q,ts0,^o^z

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore.
mp75
Max players It has 75 slots.
ts0
Group limit Team play is disabled.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build Build number: 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 Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Hardcore mode from Facepunch, with fewer helpers and tougher survival.

Mods and access

^q
Premium This server is premium only.
^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser files it under Europe.

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.