Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes

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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, reached at 168.100.161.198:28014 and hosted in EU (uk1). At the last check it held 821 of 800 places, against a seven-day mean of 507 and a peak of 1,309¹. It ranks #4 of all servers, the top 0.1%, and #4 in EU. It last wiped 5d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywords2x gather monthly wipes vanilla modded

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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.

Measure	Value	Note
Players now	821/800	103% full
In the queue	0	no queue
Seven-day mean	507	peak 1,309, 48 h peak 1,073
Rank²	#4	top 0.1%; #4 in EU
Last wipe	5d ago	monthly schedule
Next wipe³	9d 2h	Thu 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

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).

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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 0.1% of all ranked servers, the top 0.1% in EU. Rank is on player hours over the last seven days, and 1 is best; Figure 3 draws it day by day.

RankRank in region

Figure 3: Daily rank, overall and in its region; the axis is inverted, so up is better.

5Wipes

5.1Schedule: fixed weekdays

The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 2h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.

Measure	Value	Note
Usual gap	28 days	between real wipes
On rhythm	100%	of its recent wipes
Wipe-day peak	1,227	players, last three wipes
Crowd held	0%	else halves by day 7

Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.

When (UTC)	In	Kind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00	9d 2h	force wipefw
Thu 19 Nov, 15:59	22d 23h	its own schedule
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00	37d 2h	force wipefw

Thu 22 OctThu 1 OctThu 24 Sep

Figure 4: The first 48 hours of its last wipes: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1,309, 4 hours in, with 113 in the queue.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.

Wiped (UTC)	Peak	Crowd	Lasted	Before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:595d ago	1,309+113	–	running	243
Thu 1 Oct, 18:03fw25d ago	1,349+359	halved by day 10	20.9 d	44
Thu 24 Sep, 15:5933d ago	1,022	halved by day 4	7.1 d	185

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 Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes — Figure 5: The map: Vital Rust Custom, size 5000, seed 1050663377.

Table 5: The server's published settings.

Address	`168.100.161.198:28014`
Region	EU · uk1
Max players	800
Group limit	16 max
Wipe schedule	monthly
Last wipe	22 Oct 2026, 15:59 UTC
Hostname	eu-monthly.vitalrust.com
First seen	13 Sep 2026
Map	Vital Rust Custom
Size	5000
Seed	1050663377

7Operator

4 servers publish a vitalrust.com hostname.

Table 6: Other servers of the same operator, vitalrust.com.

Server	Status	Players
Vital Rust - EU Mondays \| 3x \| No BPs	online	471/500
Vital Rust - EU Medium \| 2x \| Vanilla+ \| No BP Wipes	online	9/75
Vital Rust - EU Long \| Vanilla	online	0/75

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are live europe server counts [2], 2x gather rate servers [3], modded servers by player count [4] and next Rust wipe times [5].

Table 7: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

Server	Players
Atlas - EU 2X Monthly \| Vanilla+ \| No BP WipesEU · groups of 16+ · 2x · monthly · 683 on average	1005/1050
EU RENEGADE 2x Monthly Main \| 50% Upkeep \| No BP Wipe \| Noob FrEU · groups of 50+ · 2x · monthly · 306 on average	420/435
Vitality - EU Monthly \| 2x \| Vanilla+ \| No BP WipesEU · groups of 16+ · 2x · monthly · 290 on average	209/250
EU Limitless 2x Monthly Main \| No BP Wipes \| x2EU · groups of 12+ · 2x · monthly · 252 on average	368/360
MIRAGE RUST \| MONTHLY 2x \| VANILLA+ \| Wipe 01.10EU · groups of 300+ · 2x · monthly · 160 on average	188/500
EU RENEGADE 2x Monthly Medium \| 50% Upkeep \| No BP Wipe \| BiweeEU · groups of 50+ · 2x · monthly · 112 on average	78/150

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1How well does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes run?

Over the past 48 hours, it ran at an average of 30 server fps, with a low of 30. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 1,099,946 entities. The peak memory usage was 16,055 MB. When fps is low and entity count climbs, players feel lag.

A.2In which location is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes based?

Region code uk1 accompanies the EU tag by which Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes lists itself in Europe. Where a server says it is: that is what Rust Statistics shows, without looking up where the machine stands. 168.100.161.198:28014 is its address.

A.3How reliable is Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, and is it currently online?

Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is currently online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 9 hours ago. Its uptime over the last full days (7 days) was 100%, with 168 of 168 hours online. It was first observed on 13 September 2026 by Rust Statistics.

A.4What is the Rust version for Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version that Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes runs, on Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.

Wipe schedule

A.5On what cycle does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes wipe?

Wipes at Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes occur every 4 weeks on Thursday at 15:59 UTC. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; this server's next wipe is then. 5 days have passed since the current world was generated. The tags show that the server wipes monthly.

A.6What happens on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes when wipe day arrives?

The average busiest point of recent wipes was 1,227 players. On the latest wipe the peak population came 4 hours after the wipe, with a queue of 113 additional players. The crowd stayed above half its peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. Otherwise, a fall below half took place by day 7.

Player count

A.7How does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes compare with other Rust servers in the rankings?

On player hours over seven days Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is #4, within the top 0.1% of all ranked servers; within Europe it is #4.

A.8What is the population level of Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

On Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, 821 of the 800 slots are occupied at present. Over the last week the count averages 507 players and reaches 1,309 at its height. Averaging 1,034 players, 17:00 UTC was the busiest hour of the past 48.

Tags and filters

A.9Who is responsible for running Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

A vitalrust.com hostname is published by Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes; 3 other servers we track also publish one, so the same operator most likely runs them.

A.10What do the tags associated with Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes signify?

Tags from Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes, read by the game's server browser, are gmrust (Game mode): This is survival as standard Rust plays; mp800 (Max players): The slot count is 800; ts16 (Group limit): A team holds no more than 16; v2635 (Protocol): Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game; $ruk1 (Region code): The code uk1 identifies the server's region; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships; ^z (Modded): The game is altered by plugins or settings, so it is listed as Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it is filed under Europe; jp16 (Custom tag): This is not a standard Rust tag: it was set by the owner or by a plugin. Current players, queue and the world's creation time are among the tags as well, displayed at the top of this page.

A.11Where can Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

These Rust Statistics lists include Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes: Rust servers with a 2x gather rate, European Rust servers and Modded Rust servers. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Modded ^z; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 2x; Players now: At least 200; Average players: 200+ on average.

Rules, settings, map

A.12Under what rules and settings does Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes operate?

The rate for gathering on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes is 2x, according to its name. 16 players is the cap on a group. Listed as survival, the game mode is the standard mode, in which you gather, build and raid. Combat and raiding against other players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game; the browser files it under Modded. 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.13What map is in use on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Generated by the game from seed 1050663377, the procedural map on Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes measures 5,000. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page. Under map name, it gives Vital Rust Custom.

How to join

A.14How do you connect to Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes?

Enter client.connect 168.100.161.198:28014 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. Since it is full right now, anticipate a queue. Its website can be found at https://discord.com/invite/HYtp3nV6Yd.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp800,ptrak,$ruk1,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts16,^z,jp16.

Table 8: The server's tags and their meanings.

Tag	Meaning
Game
`gmrust`	Game mode. This is survival as standard Rust plays.
`mp800`	Max players. The slot count is 800.
`ts16`	Group limit. A team holds no more than 16.
`v2635`	Protocol. Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635.
`cs168909`	Build. This server runs game build 168909.
`ptrak`	Networking. The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game.
`$ruk1`	Region code. The code uk1 identifies the server's region.
Wipe schedule
`^m`	Monthly. Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month.
Difficulty
`^v`	Vanilla. Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships.
Mods and access
`^z`	Modded. The game is altered by plugins or settings, so it is listed as Modded.
Region
`EU`	Europe. In the server browser it is filed under Europe.
Other
`jp16`	Custom tag. This is not a standard Rust tag: it was set by the owner or by a plugin.

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 where the best of Rust are competing Blueprints Schedule: Blueprints will never wipe Wipe Schedule: A week prior to force @ 5pm London Time and First Thursday of every month @ 7pm London Time Server is set to have nice QoL Features: 2x Loot tables will all junk removed Slightly adjusted loot respawns Slightly adjusted Furnace/Smelt speeds Free Features also include: Auto Electrical Branch output setting, Boosted input/output for Water Catchers, Automatic Team Authorization for Turrets and Tool Cupboards, Chainsaws will always hit the resource marker, adjustments to Torpedoes including damage dealt and more, no pay wall, no pay to win. All Free, enjoy. store.vitalrust.com Support can be found in our Discord: discord.gg/vital

References

[1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
[2]Rust Statistics. Live europe server counts. ruststatistics.org/top-eu-rust-servers.
[3]Rust Statistics. 2x gather rate servers. ruststatistics.org/top-2x-rust-servers.
[4]Rust Statistics. Modded servers by player count. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
[5]Rust Statistics. Next Rust wipe times. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.