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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 5,104, its rank

The Rusty Krab

Online NA 66.51.99.44:28045 checked 9m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 50 2% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 2
Rank · atomic number#5,104top 23% · #876 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 3hThu 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
00.511.5216:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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
02040608016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 23% of all ranked servers, top 47% 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 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 3hThu 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 0, 0 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 03:38 UTC26d ago 0 – 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 The Rusty Krab?

The map on The Rusty Krab is procedural at size 3,700 with seed 68656627, made 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 The Rusty Krab?

The name of The Rusty Krab 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. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

In what location does The Rusty Krab sit?

The Rusty Krab gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 66.51.99.44:28045.

On what Rust version does The Rusty Krab operate?

On Linux, The Rusty Krab is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does The Rusty Krab stay online?

At the moment, The Rusty Krab is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 6 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Does The Rusty Krab hold a steady performance?

Server fps averaged 16 over the last 48 hours, with 5 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 81,245 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,283 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on The Rusty Krab?

Once a month is all The Rusty Krab 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. Counting back, the current world began 26 days 11 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

On The Rusty Krab, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Recent wipes on average reached 0 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

How should you read the tags on The Rusty Krab?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 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; ^p (PvE): You fight the world, not other players; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins; ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America: that is the tag list The Rusty Krab publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does The Rusty Krab appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry The Rusty Krab: 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

How does The Rusty Krab compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours for the past seven days give The Rusty Krab #5,104, #876 in North America, and a place in the top 23% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on The Rusty Krab tell you?

The Rusty Krab currently shows 1 players across 50 slots. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 2 at the top. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 03:00 UTC, at 2 players.

Connection

How can you connect to The Rusty Krab?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.99.44:28045. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

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 Player slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build It runs build 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.

Gameplay

^p
PvE You fight the world, not other players.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins.
^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.

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.