Operation Birddog

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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server Operation Birddog, reached at 89.28.237.37:28030 and hosted in NA. At the last check it held 0 of 50 places, against a seven-day mean of 0 and a peak of 1¹. It ranks #11,912 of all servers, the top 54%, and #1374 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 modded oxide pve

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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	0/50	0% full
In the queue	0	no queue
Seven-day mean	0	peak 1
Rank²	#11,912	top 54%; #1374 in NA
Last wipe	26d ago	monthly schedule
Next wipe³	8d 23h	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 54% of all ranked servers, the top 74% 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

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 23h. The force wipe (high confidence).

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

Measure	Value	Note
Wipe-day peak	2	players, last three wipes

Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.

When (UTC)	In	Kind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00	8d 23h	force wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00	36d 23h	force wipefw

Figure 4: The first 48 hours of its last wipes: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 23 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.

Wiped (UTC)	Peak	Crowd	Lasted	Before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43fw26d 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 Operation Birddog — Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 3500, seed 1. Open on RustMaps.

Table 5: The server's published settings.

Address	`89.28.237.37:28030`
Region	NA
Max players	50
Group limit	8, the default
Wipe schedule	monthly
Last wipe	1 Oct 2026, 17:43 UTC
Hostname	–
First seen	13 Sep 2026
Map	Procedural Map
Size	3500
Seed	1

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], modded Rust servers listed live [3], pve wipes and settings [4] and predicted wipe schedule [5].

Table 6: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

Server	Players
[US] RustEZ Scourge PvE \| Zombies \| No Raiding \| No KillingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 53 on average	41/200
[US] RustEZ Survival PvE \| No Decay \| No Raiding \| No KillingNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 40 on average	34/200
Zombie Land PVE Monthly \| Raids \| Skills \| Custom MapsNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 35 on average	23/100
Hex US PVE Monthly 1X BiWeekly 5X \| RPG \| Custom Weapons \| JetNA · no group limit · 1x · monthly · 32 on average	30/100
[US] Salty Zombies PvE #1 \| Skills \| Raid \| Quests \| Jetpack \| NA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 26 on average	23/150
RustPlay PVE/PVP-Zones TP\|Zombies\|LVLs\|Kits\|Quests\|Clans\|+More!NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 13 on average	10/420

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1Is the performance of Operation Birddog smooth?

Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 5, with a minimum of 5. The highest number of entities it carried was 75,898, comprising buildings, deployables and all other objects. The peak memory usage was 2,748 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2In which location is Operation Birddog based?

North America is where Operation Birddog lists itself, using the NA tag. Rust Statistics does not look up the machine's location; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 89.28.237.37:28030.

A.3How reliable is Operation Birddog, and is it currently online?

At the present moment, Operation Birddog is online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 10 hours ago. The server was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first record of it by Rust Statistics dates to 13 September 2026.

A.4What version of Rust is run on Operation Birddog?

The version of Rust on Operation Birddog is network protocol 2635 and build 168909, and the operating system is Linux. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, and Steam updates it automatically.

Wipe schedule

A.5On what cycle does Operation Birddog wipe?

Once a month, Operation Birddog wipes in line with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe occurs, and that is when every Rust server, including this one, next wipes. The world currently in use was created 26 days 2 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is stated in the server's tags.

A.6How would you describe wipe day on Operation Birddog?

Across its recent wipes, the average peak population was 2 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 23 hours after it began.

Player count

A.7How does Operation Birddog compare with other Rust servers in the rankings?

On player hours over seven days Operation Birddog is #11,912, within the top 54% of all ranked servers; within North America it is #1,374.

A.8What is the population level of Operation Birddog?

The current population of Operation Birddog is 0, drawn from 50 slots. Over the last week the count averages 0 players and reaches 1 at its height.

Tags, lists

A.9What is the meaning of the tags on Operation Birddog?

The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp50 (Max players): It offers 50 slots; 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): A region code has not been set; ^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; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is 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 Operation Birddog 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 Operation Birddog 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 Operation Birddog fits. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, 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 Operation Birddog?

Its name carries no gather rate for Operation Birddog. No cap is given beyond the game's default of 8 players per group. The mode is pve, which means players cannot fight each other. The server browser lists it as Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.

A.12On which map does Operation Birddog take place?

Size 3,500 and seed 1 define the procedural, game-generated map on Operation Birddog. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page.

How to join

A.13What steps are required to join Operation Birddog?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 89.28.237.37:28030. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z.

Table 7: The server's tags and their meanings.

Tag	Meaning
Game
`gmrust`	Game mode. Survival on standard Rust rules.
`mp50`	Max players. It offers 50 slots.
`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. A region code has not been set.
Wipe schedule
`^m`	Monthly. Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month.
Gameplay
`^p`	PvE. Player fighting is off; danger comes from the world.
Mods and access
`^o`	Oxide. The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
`^z`	Modded. Modded listing: plugins or settings modify the game.
Region
`NA`	North 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

Operation Birddog is a Pine hosted PVE Rust server. • The server is PVE with PVP at the monuments. • Monthly map wipe, no wipe of skills or BPs. • The decay rate is ¼ and the stack size for food, ammo, and certain resources has been increased. • Basic lights (lanterns, tuna can lamps, and chinese lanterns) turn on at dusk and off at dawn and do not require fuel. • Torches in the torch holder do not decay. • Several shops including deployable nature and kits. • Planted plants do not decay. • Zombies spawn at night and run amok. • Running the skill tree and the following XP events: gas station gang fight, skill tree events, raidable bases, better npc, rad town event, ferry terminal event, super market event and defendable homes.

References

[1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
[2]Rust Statistics. Rust servers in North America. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
[3]Rust Statistics. Modded Rust servers listed live. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
[4]Rust Statistics. Pve wipes and settings. ruststatistics.org/top-rust-pve-servers.
[5]Rust Statistics. Predicted wipe schedule. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.