The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 7,694Acc. 2026.7694
Brutal Island - [Main]
Rust server, NA · in the archive since 1 October 2026
Online NA 73.72.184.35:28015 checked 12m 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.
The record of each wipe
No wipe seen yet.
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
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 11h. The force wipe
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 2 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 61% 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 Brutal Island - [Main] mean?
These tags from Brutal Island - [Main], read by the game's server browser, are: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe falls on this server, and a wipe comes once a month; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon here; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. At the top of this page you also see the current players, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include Brutal Island - [Main]?
The Rust Server History lists that feature Brutal Island - [Main] are: 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 Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The record
Does Brutal Island - [Main] run smoothly?
Across the last 48 hours it averaged 7 server fps; the low was 5. As many as 103,616 entities were in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. The highest memory use was 3,699 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and a climbing entity count.
Which version of Rust does Brutal Island - [Main] run?
On Windows, Brutal Island - [Main] runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam keeps it updated for you.
Is Brutal Island - [Main] online, and how reliable is it?
The live count shows Brutal Island - [Main] online right now. About 34 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. Of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 167 were up: 99% of the time. 1 October 2026 is when Rust Server History first saw it.
Where is Brutal Island - [Main] located?
The NA tag is how Brutal Island - [Main] lists itself in North America. 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 73.72.184.35:28015.
Wipe record
What is the wipe schedule on Brutal Island - [Main]?
Drawn from the force wipe, Brutal Island - [Main]'s next wipe is an estimate. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Made 27 days 10 hours ago, the current world is what it runs now. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player record
How does Brutal Island - [Main] rank against other Rust servers?
Seven days of player hours rank Brutal Island - [Main] at #7,694, in the top 35% of all ranked servers; within North America it is #1,135.
How busy is Brutal Island - [Main]?
Of its 40 slots, Brutal Island - [Main] currently has 0 filled. The seven-day average stands at 0 players; the peak is 3. Stored history puts the busiest hour of the past 48 at 01:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on Brutal Island - [Main]?
No gather rate is stated in the name of Brutal Island - [Main]. No group may exceed 8 players, the default set by the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You may fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Carbon plugins are running. The name vanilla is used here: facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does Brutal Island - [Main] run?
Generated by the game at size 4,250 with seed 1533320502, the map on Brutal Island - [Main] is procedural. 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 Brutal Island - [Main]?
Enter client.connect 73.72.184.35:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Launch Rust and join on this page also works: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^y
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.