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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,922, its rank

desolate light

Offline 69.164.253.186:25863 checked 21d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 42 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,922top 72%
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
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 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

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.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 10:06 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

Server setup

What map is in play on desolate light?

The map on desolate light is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1956985678, made by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

What rules has desolate light set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of desolate light. You get up to 6 players per group. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

What region hosts desolate light?

Nothing about a region is published by desolate light. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. Connect at 69.164.253.186:25863.

Which Rust version is desolate light on?

On Linux, desolate light is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is desolate light for staying online?

desolate light is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 21 days 22 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipe days

When does desolate light wipe, and how often?

Too few wipes are on record for desolate light to reveal a rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 26 days 12 hours ago.

How does desolate light look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 0 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on desolate light?

The game's server browser reads the tags desolate light publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp42 (Max players): It has 42 slots; ts6 (Group limit): No team may exceed 6; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^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. 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 desolate light appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry desolate light: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does desolate light place?

desolate light sits at #15,922 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 72% of ranked servers.

How many players does desolate light have at the moment?

No live signal from desolate light right now, which was last seen 21 days 22 hours ago.

Getting on

How can you connect to desolate light?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 69.164.253.186:25863, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp42,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts6,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp42
Max players It has 42 slots.
ts6
Group limit No team may exceed 6.
v2634
Protocol The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version.
cs166652
Build The game build is 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^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.

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.