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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly, reached at 135.148.10.249:28015 and hosted in NA. At the last check it held 0 of 75 places, against a seven-day mean of 1 and a peak of 41. It ranks #3,029 of all servers, the top 14%, and #503 in NA. It last wiped 26d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywordsmonthly wipes vanilla modded oxide pve

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1Summary statistics

Table 1: The server at the last check, its week and its standing.
MeasureValueNote
Players now0/750% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean1peak 4, 48 h peak 3
Rank2#3,029top 14%; #503 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe38d 6hThu 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
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00
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
05010015020013:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00
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 14% of all ranked servers, the top 27% 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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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 6h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak6players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:008d 6hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0036d 6hforce wipefw
02468+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 6, 4 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 1 Oct, 18:38fw26d ago 6 – running 1

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 Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 4500, seed 1532180907. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address135.148.10.249:28015
RegionNA
Max players75
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe1 Oct 2026, 18:38 UTC
Hostname–
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size4500
Seed1532180907

7Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are Rust servers in North America [2], starter rust servers live now [3], modded Rust servers listed live [4], live pve population [5] and servers wiping soon [6].

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 · 51 on average26/200
[US] RustEZ Survival PvE | No Decay | No Raiding | No KillingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 39 on average20/200
Zombie Land PVE Monthly | Raids | Skills | Custom MapsNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 35 on average13/100
Hex US PVE Monthly 1X BiWeekly 5X | RPG | Custom Weapons | JetNA · no group limit · 1x · monthly · 32 on average8/100
[US] Salty Zombies PvE #1 | Skills | Raid | Quests | Jetpack | NA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 25 on average7/150
RustPlay PVE/PVP-Zones TP|Zombies|LVLs|Kits|Quests|Clans|+More!NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 12 on average3/420

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1How well does Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly run?

The server fps averaged 112 over the last 48 hours, never dropping below 70. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 133,701 entities. The peak memory usage was 5,450 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2In which location is Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly based?

The NA tag places Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly in North America, as it lists itself. The location displayed by Rust Statistics is the server's own claim, not a lookup of where the machine stands. You will find it at 135.148.10.249:28015.

A.3What is the reliability of Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly, and is it online?

Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly is currently online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 33 minutes ago. 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 Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on the Linux operating system. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, and Steam updates it automatically.

Wipe timing

A.5When are wipes carried out on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

The only wipe for Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly is the monthly force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; this server's next wipe is then. 26 days 17 hours have passed since the current world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is stated in the server's tags.

A.6What characterises wipe day on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

The average busiest point of recent wipes was 6 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 4 hours after it began.

Player count

A.7What is the rank of Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly among Rust servers?

The seven-day player-hours ranking gives Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly #3,029, in the top 14% of ranked servers and #503 in North America.

A.8At what level does Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly operate in terms of players?

At this moment 0 players are on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly, which has 75 slots in total. Averaged over the last seven days: 1 players; the same period peaks at 4. Averaging 2 players, 04:00 UTC was the busiest hour of the past 48.

Tags, lists

A.9How should the tags on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly be interpreted?

The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): This is survival as standard Rust plays; mp75 (Max players): 75 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the value the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is the one running; 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): A monthly wipe cycle applies, timed to coincide with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships; ^p (PvE): There is no player combat; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing: plugins or settings modify the game; NA (North America): The server browser lists this server under North America, which Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly publishes as its tags. Current players, queue and the world's creation time are among the tags as well, displayed at the top of this page.

A.10Where can Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

The Rust Statistics lists that Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly fits are: Rust servers for new players, Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers: live list and North American server statistics. These filters on the server list return it: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Rules, settings, map

A.11Which settings and rules are in force on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

The name of Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly states no gather rate. At 8 players, the group limit equals the game's default. The mode is pve, which means players cannot fight each other. It appears under Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins number Oxide on this server. By its own label, vanilla, rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships. VAC is active: that is Valve's anti-cheat.

A.12What map is in use on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

Size 4,500 and seed 1532180907 define the procedural, game-generated map on Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page.

Connection

A.13What steps are required to join Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 135.148.10.249:28015. Alternatively, the Launch Rust and join control on this page launches the game via Steam and completes the connection.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z.

Table 7: The server's tags and their meanings.
TagMeaning
Game
gmrustGame mode. This is survival as standard Rust plays.
mp75Max players. 75 slots are available.
ts8Group limit. 8 per team, the value the game sets by default.
v2635Protocol. Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635.
cs168909Build. Build 168909 is the one running.
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. A monthly wipe cycle applies, timed to coincide with Facepunch's force wipe.
Difficulty
^vVanilla. Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships.
Gameplay
^pPvE. There is no player combat; the world supplies the danger.
Mods and access
^oOxide. Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod).
^zModded. Modded listing: plugins or settings modify the game.
Region
NANorth America. The server browser lists this server 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.

Appendix CAbout this server, in its own words

Welcome to Salty Sheep - Solo/Duo/Trio | PVE Hybrid | Noob Friendly! Experience the best of rust with active admins Map Size: 4500 Max Team Size: 3 Server Features: -Wipe Cycle: Monthly (First Thursday 2pm EST) -50% Time on Locked Crates -Halloween Events and Dungeons -Upkeep cost reduced by 50% -PVE and No Raiding M-F -PvP Sat / Sun Only -Unlimited Online Raids Allowed Sat and Sun -1 Offline Raid Allowed Per Day Sat and Sun -Full PvP and Raiding Starting The Last Saturday of the Month -Custom Raid / Kill Bounty System -Custom Events & NPCs Not Seen on Any Other Server -Tugboats Spawn -Daily Rewards -10 Map Markers -Minis Spawn on Road -Admin Support And More! Server Rules: -No cheating scripting or exploits -English only in Global Chat -No piracy or any kind of illegal content -No doxing of any kind -No advertisements promotions or any scam messages -No game bans within the last 730 days -No ban evading

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. Rust servers in North America. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Starter rust servers live now. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-for-new-players.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Modded Rust servers listed live. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Live pve population. ruststatistics.org/top-rust-pve-servers.
  6. [6]Rust Statistics. Servers wiping soon. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.