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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 15,960, its rank

Wayward Home

Offline NA 66.51.98.53:28015 checked 22d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,960top 71% · #1565 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 8hThu 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
No hourly history yet.

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
This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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 Sep24 Sep29 Sep3 Oct8 Oct12 Oct

Top 71% of all ranked servers, top 84% 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 8d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak2players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 8hThu 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.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 19:53 UTC FW26d 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 Wayward Home?

Wayward Home runs a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 142534215; the game generates it. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

What settings and rules apply on Wayward Home?

The name of Wayward Home carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as pve, other players cannot be fought. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

What region hosts Wayward Home?

Wayward Home gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. 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 66.51.98.53:28015.

What Rust version does Wayward Home currently run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what Wayward Home uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How reliably does Wayward Home stay online?

Right now Wayward Home is offline, with its last appearance 22 days 15 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Wipes and resets

What is the wiping pattern on Wayward Home?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what Wayward Home does. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. 26 days 14 hours ago the current world was made. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

How does Wayward Home look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 1 hours after it began.

Where it appears

How should you read the tags on Wayward Home?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): It runs build 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^p (PvE): The threat comes from the world, not from other players; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; NA (North America): North America is where the browser lists this server: that is the tag list Wayward Home publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Wayward Home appear in?

You will find Wayward Home on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does Wayward Home place?

Player hours for the past seven days give Wayward Home #15,960, #1,565 in North America, and a place in the top 71% of ranked servers.

How many players does Wayward Home have at the moment?

The last recorded sighting of Wayward Home was 22 days 15 hours ago, and it is offline now.

Getting on

What is the way to join Wayward Home?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.98.53:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build It runs build 166494.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America North America is where the browser lists this server.

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.