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Exhibit no. 5,241Acc. 2026.5241
Southern Grid AU
Rust server, OC · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 10m 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 Oct19:13 · FW 2 Oct05:39 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 27 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Fri 2 Oct 202605:39 UTC25d ago
- Peak
- 1
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 0
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Thu 1 Oct 202619:13 UTC FW26d ago
- Peak
- 2
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- 0.4 days
- 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 8d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 22hThu 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 1, 35 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 24% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. 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 Southern Grid AU mean?
These tags from Southern Grid AU, read by the game's server browser, are: gmrust (Game mode): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635; matching it is required to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe applies here, as does the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is installed here; OC (Oceania): Its entry in the server browser sits under Oceania. 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 Southern Grid AU?
The Rust Server History lists that feature Southern Grid AU are: Oceania Rust servers on record, Rust community servers and The vanilla Rust servers on record. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The record
Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?
Averaged over the last 48 hours: 10 server fps, with 5 the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 122,719 entities. The highest memory use was 3,734 MB. Players feel lag when fps drop and the entity count climbs.
Which version of Rust does Southern Grid AU run?
The recorded build for Southern Grid AU is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; joining needs the same protocol.
Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?
At this moment Southern Grid AU is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 4 minutes ago. It was up for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. First seen by Rust Server History on 13 September 2026.
Where is Southern Grid AU located?
The OC tag is how Southern Grid AU lists itself in Oceania. Where a server says it is is shown on Rust Server History; where the machine stands is not looked up. You will find it at 51.161.198.78:28070.
Wipe record
What does wipe day look like on Southern Grid AU?
An average peak of 2 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 35 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?
Once a month Southern Grid AU 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. 25 days 14 hours ago its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player counts
How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?
Southern Grid AU ranks #5,241 on seven-day player hours: top 24% overall and #123 in Oceania.
How busy is Southern Grid AU?
Of its 50 slots, Southern Grid AU currently has 0 filled. The seven-day average stands at 0 players; the peak is 4. An average of 1 players at 07:00 UTC made that the busiest hour of the last 48.
Rules and settings
What are the rules and settings on Southern Grid AU?
The name of Southern Grid AU carries no gather rate. The limit of 8 players per group is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gathering, building and raiding: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, this community server is listed. The plugin count is Oxide. The name vanilla is used here: nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules. Joining requires Rust's premium status. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does Southern Grid AU run?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1883130744 is what Southern Grid AU runs, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since one size and seed always give one map.
How to join
How do I join Southern Grid AU?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 to connect. Launch Rust from this page instead and you join through Steam with the connect already made. Joining requires Rust's premium status.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^q
^o
Region
OC
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.