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Element card · group Vanilla · atomic number 8,212, its rank

[NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly

Online NA 66.51.99.118:28115 checked 9m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 200 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#8,212top 37% · #1178 in NA
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 17hThu 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
00.250.50.75102:0011:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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
01020304002:0011:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% 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 6d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak5players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 17hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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 5, 6 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW28d ago 5 – 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 [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

The map on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is procedural at size 4,000 with seed 626262276, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

How is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. It appears under Community in the server browser. The plugin count is Carbon. Vanilla is its own label: standard rates, kits and rules, exactly as Facepunch ships the game. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

What region hosts [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

The NA tag is how [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly lists itself, in North America. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 66.51.99.118:28115 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly currently run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How dependable is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly for staying online?

At the moment, [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is online. About 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 29 server fps and a minimum of 18. The maximum entity count was 87,960, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use peaked at 3,307 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipes and resets

What is the wiping pattern on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

Once a month is all [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly wipes, with the 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. Counting back, the current world began 28 days 7 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

How does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly look on the day of a wipe?

Recent wipes on average reached 5 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 6 hours in.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

The game's server browser reads the tags [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly publishes, which are gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp200 (Max players): 200 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Standard rates, kits and rules, exactly as Facepunch ships the game; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework here is Carbon; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly: Rust community servers, measured, North American Rust servers: the sample and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Whose server is [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

Sharing its rustascent.com hostname with 2 other servers we track, [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is most likely run by the same operator as those.

Population

What position does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly hold among Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours place [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly at #8,212 overall, #1,178 in North America and in the top 37% of ranked servers.

How many players does [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly have at the moment?

[NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly currently shows 0 players across 200 slots. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 1. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 20:00 UTC, when the average was 0 players.

Connection

How can you connect to [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.99.118:28115, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://store.rustascent.com/.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^v,NA,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp200
Max players 200 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Standard rates, kits and rules, exactly as Facepunch ships the game.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon The plugin framework here is Carbon.

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.