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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 3,978, its rank

Rusty Cage

Online NA 66.51.99.65:28035 checked 2h ago

duo weekly wipes moddedoxidepremium
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Atomic mass · players now 2/ 50 4% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 5
Rank · atomic number#3,978top 18% · #665 in NA
Last wipe20h agoweekly schedule
Next wipe6d 3hTue 3 Nov, 22:06 UTC
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
AveragePeakWipe
0246820:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 22:06 UTCWIPE

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
Server fpsWipe
02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 22:06 UTCWIPE

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 Sep25 Sep30 Sep18 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 36% in NA, and #229 of the duo servers (top 55%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

from its schedule tag

Next wipe Tuesday 3 November, 22:06 UTC, in 6d 3h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence

usual gap4 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm67%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak3players, last three wipes
crowd held67%else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 3hTue 3 Nov, 22:06 UTC
  2. 7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  3. 13d 3hTue 10 Nov, 22:06 UTC
  4. 20d 3hTue 17 Nov, 22:06 UTC
  5. 27d 3hTue 24 Nov, 22:06 UTC
  6. 34d 3hTue 1 Dec, 22:06 UTC
  7. 35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
  8. 41d 3hTue 8 Dec, 22:06 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctSat 17 OctTue 13 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 27 Oct, 22:06 UTC20h ago – – running 0
Fri 23 Oct, 23:17 UTC4d ago 1 halved by day 2 4 days 0
Sat 17 Oct, 02:55 UTC11d ago 4 held half 6.8 days 0
Tue 13 Oct, 05:26 UTC15d ago 3 held half 3.9 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on Rusty Cage?

Rusty Cage runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 2013498811; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

How is Rusty Cage configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Cage. The group cap is 2 players (duo). survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Plugins in use: Oxide. Joining requires Rust's premium status. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

In what location does Rusty Cage sit?

Rusty Cage 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. 66.51.99.65:28035 is the address it uses.

Which Rust version is Rusty Cage on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rusty Cage uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How dependable is Rusty Cage for staying online?

Rusty Cage is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 5 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Cage hold a steady performance?

The last 48 hours show an average of 28 server fps and a minimum of 5. The entity count reached 141,965, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. The highest memory usage was 3,758 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Rusty Cage, and at what time?

The prediction for Rusty Cage follows its tag, as too few wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. The wipe after this one is due on Tuesday 3 November at 22:06 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 20 hours ago. Its tags carry a weekly wipe schedule.

On Rusty Cage, what happens when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 3 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 67% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 2 when it didn't hold.

Tags, lists

What should you understand from the tags Rusty Cage carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts2 (Group limit): No team may exceed 2; 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; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen once a week; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins; ^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: that is the tag list Rusty Cage 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.

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

You will find Rusty Cage on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Duo Rust servers, Modded Rust servers, measured and North American Rust servers: the sample. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

Population

How does Rusty Cage compare with other servers in the rankings?

Rusty Cage is #3,978 on seven-day player hours, #665 in North America, and in the top 18% of all ranked servers. Within duo, its rank is #229.

How full is Rusty Cage right now?

At the moment Rusty Cage has 2 of its 50 slots filled. The week's figures average 1 players and top out at 5. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 04:00 UTC, at 5 players.

How to join

How can you connect to Rusty Cage?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.99.65:28035. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. Joining requires Rust's premium status. For more, visit https://rusty-cage.tebex.store/.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,NA,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts2,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Player slots: 50.
ts2
Group limit No team may exceed 2.
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

^w
Weekly Wipes happen once a week.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.
^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins.
^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.