The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 3,928Acc. 2026.3928
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]
Rust server, NA · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online NA 32.219.237.28:28215 checked 5m ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
13 Sep Now 1 Oct17:53 · FW 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 28 Oct 2026, 22:25 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Thu 1 Oct 202617:53 UTC FW27d ago
- Peak
- 3
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 20hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 10 hours in.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 35% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
What do the server tags on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] mean?
You can see the tags 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp80 (Max players): The server holds 80 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default caps teams at 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to join; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): On a monthly schedule the server wipes with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are as Facepunch ships them; NA (North America): North America is the region the server browser files it under. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and the world's creation time, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
The Rust Server History lists that feature 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] are: Rust servers for new players, Rust community servers, North America Rust servers and The vanilla Rust servers on record. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The record
Does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run smoothly?
Averaged over the last 48 hours: 125 server fps, with 85 the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 106,967 entities. Up to 4,113 MB of memory was used. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and a climbing entity count.
Which version of Rust does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] runs, on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; joining needs the same protocol.
Is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] online, and how reliable is it?
At this moment 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is online. Going by its reported uptime, it restarted about 2 days 20 hours ago. Of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 168 were up: 100% of the time. First seen by Rust Server History on 13 September 2026.
Where is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] located?
The NA tag is how 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] lists itself in North America. Rust Server History does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You can reach it at 32.219.237.28:28215.
Wipe log
What does wipe day look like on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 3 players. At 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Once a month 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 1 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Population
How does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] rank against other Rust servers?
Seven days of player hours rank 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] at #3,928, in the top 18% of all ranked servers; within North America it is #653.
How busy is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
0 players are on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] at present, from 80 slots. The seven-day average stands at 1 players; the peak is 3. Stored history puts the busiest hour of the past 48 at 10:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
No gather rate is stated in the name of 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]. The limit of 8 players per group is the game's default. Under game mode, the entry reads survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, this community server is listed. The server applies the label vanilla: rates, kits and rules are as Facepunch ships them. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run?
Generated by the game at size 4,250 with seed 479521753, the map on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is procedural. One size and seed produce one map, which RustMaps can show you from this page.
Joining the server
How do I join 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Entering client.connect 32.219.237.28:28215 in the console (F1) connects you to this server. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same: it opens the game via Steam and connects on your behalf. https://discord.com/invite/rcT5m4VwSM is its website.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp80
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Region
NA
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.