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The Rusty Rifle

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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server The Rusty Rifle, reached at 104.128.50.78:28015 and hosted in NA. At the last check it held 0 of 50 places, against a seven-day mean of 01. It ranks #15,405 of all servers, the top 69%, and #1549 in NA. It last wiped 23d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywordsmonthly wipes modded oxide pve premium

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1Summary statistics

Plate 1: The server's own banner, as it publishes it. Table 1 gives its figures at the last check.
Table 1: The server at the last check, its week and its standing.
MeasureValueNote
Players now0/500% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean0peak –
Rank2#15,405top 69%; #1549 in NA
Last wipe23d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe38d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCfw

2Population

Figure 1 follows the players on the server at three scales: every five minutes over two hours, the hourly mean and peak over 48 hours, and the daily mean and peak over 90 days. Dashed uprights mark its wipes.

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00
Figure 1: Players on the server, UTC: (a) every five minutes, from the Steam server list; (b) hourly mean and peak; (c) daily mean and peak.

3Performance

We query the server directly for its frame rate, entity count and memory4. Low frames per second and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag (Figure 2).

measure
range
05010015020000:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00
Figure 2: Server performance. 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.

4Rank

The server stands in the top 69% of all ranked servers, the top 83% in NA. Rank is on player hours over the last seven days, and 1 is best; Figure 3 draws it day by day.

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct
Figure 3: Daily rank, overall and in its region; the axis is inverted, so up is better.

5Wipes

5.1Schedule: force wipes only

The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 19h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak2players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:008d 19hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0036d 19hforce wipefw
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h
Figure 4: The first 48 hours of its last wipes: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 22 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Sun 4 Oct, 18:2323d 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. Before: players just before it wiped. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

6Map and settings

Map of The Rusty Rifle
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 4500, seed 292611345. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address104.128.50.78:28015
RegionNA
Max players50
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe4 Oct 2026, 18:23 UTC
Hostname–
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size4500
Seed292611345

7Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are North American Rust servers [2], modded Rust population table [3], live pve population [4] and upcoming Rust wipes [5].

Table 6: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
ServerPlayers
[US] RustEZ Scourge PvE | Zombies | No Raiding | No KillingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 52 on average59/200
[US] RustEZ Survival PvE | No Decay | No Raiding | No KillingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 39 on average44/200
Zombie Land PVE Monthly | Raids | Skills | Custom MapsNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 34 on average44/100
Hex US PVE Monthly 1X BiWeekly 5X | RPG | Custom Weapons | JetNA · no group limit · 1x · monthly · 32 on average44/100
[US] Salty Zombies PvE #1 | Skills | Raid | Quests | Jetpack | NA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 25 on average43/150
RustPlay PVE/PVP-Zones TP|Zombies|LVLs|Kits|Quests|Clans|+More!NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 12 on average16/420

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

About the server

A.1Is the performance of The Rusty Rifle smooth?

The server fps averaged 110 over the last 48 hours, never dropping below 93. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 139,395 entities. Its highest memory usage was 3,987 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2What location does The Rusty Rifle have?

North America is where The Rusty Rifle lists itself, using the NA tag. Rust Statistics does not look up the machine's location; it shows where the server says it is. 104.128.50.78:28015 is its address.

A.3How reliable is The Rusty Rifle, and is it currently online?

The Rusty Rifle is online at this time. It last restarted around 5 minutes ago, according to its reported uptime. Of the 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 168 were served, an availability of 100%. The first record of it by Rust Statistics dates to 13 September 2026.

A.4What version of Rust is run on The Rusty Rifle?

The Rusty Rifle is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 on the Linux operating system. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, and Steam updates it automatically.

Wipe schedule

A.5When are wipes carried out on The Rusty Rifle?

Once a month, The Rusty Rifle wipes in line with the force wipe. This server's next wipe coincides with the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which affects all Rust servers. The current world has been running for 23 days 5 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is stated in the server's tags.

A.6What characterises wipe day on The Rusty Rifle?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 2 players. The crowd reached its maximum 22 hours after the latest wipe.

Player count

A.7What is the rank of The Rusty Rifle among Rust servers?

On player hours over seven days The Rusty Rifle is #15,405, within the top 69% of all ranked servers; within North America it is #1,549.

A.8What is the population level of The Rusty Rifle?

At this moment 0 players are on The Rusty Rifle, which has 50 slots in total. The mean population for the last seven days is 0.

Tags and filters

A.9What is the meaning of the tags on The Rusty Rifle?

gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival on vanilla rules; mp50 (Max players): It offers 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as it is by default in the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month; ^p (PvE): Player fighting is off; danger comes from the world; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing: plugins or settings modify the game; NA (North America): North America is the region it appears under in the server browser: these are the tags The Rusty Rifle publishes, and the server browser reads them. The tags also carry current players, queue length and world creation time, shown at the top of this page.

A.10Where can The Rusty Rifle be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers: live list and North American server statistics are the Rust Statistics lists that The Rusty Rifle fits. You will find it on the server list filtered by: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Settings and map

A.11What are the settings and rules that govern The Rusty Rifle?

Its name carries no gather rate for The Rusty Rifle. The group cap is 8 players, which is the default in the game. pve is the game mode here; no player-versus-player fighting. It appears under Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins number Oxide on this server. Rust's premium status is required to join. The server has VAC on, Valve's anti-cheat.

A.12What is the map for The Rusty Rifle?

The game generates The Rusty Rifle's procedural map at size 4,500, from seed 292611345. Size and seed being equal, the map is the same, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Connection

A.13What steps are required to join The Rusty Rifle?

Enter client.connect 104.128.50.78:28015 in the Rust console, reached by pressing F1 after starting the game. Or press Launch Rust and join here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Rust's premium status is required to join. You can find its website at https://chicagoservers.co.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^p,^m,NA,gmvanilla,cs167781,^q,ts8,^o^z.

Table 7: The server's tags and their meanings.
TagMeaning
Game
gmvanillaGame mode. Survival on vanilla rules.
mp50Max players. It offers 50 slots.
ts8Group limit. The team cap is 8, which is the game default.
v2635Protocol. The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join.
cs167781Build. The game build is 167781.
ptrakNetworking. RakNet is the network layer here, as it is by default in the game.
$r?Region code. The region code is unset.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month.
Gameplay
^pPvE. Player fighting is off; danger comes from the world.
Mods and access
^qPremium. Rust's premium status is required to join.
^oOxide. The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^zModded. Modded listing: plugins or settings modify the game.
Region
NANorth America. North America is the region it appears under in the server browser.

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.

Appendix CAbout this server, in its own words

PvE ONLY! Over 80 Mods installed! Use /info in chat to see list/help/rules. Build a MOBILE base ON A TRAIN! Add a BASEMENT to your base! Backpacks, Remover Tool, Tons of NPCs to engage. Plus so much more...

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. North American Rust servers. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Modded Rust population table. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Live pve population. ruststatistics.org/top-rust-pve-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Upcoming Rust wipes. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.