The Carnivorous Cactus
NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 9m ago
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 32% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 17.8 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 1
Coming wipes
- 22d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC 11d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC 29d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 17.8 days | 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.
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Population
The Carnivorous Cactus ranking: what position does it hold?
The Carnivorous Cactus ranks #1,127 in North America and #7,243 overall on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 32% of ranked servers.
How many players are on The Carnivorous Cactus?
0 of 50 slots are filled on The Carnivorous Cactus at the moment. Averaged across the last seven days: 0 players, peaking at 3. In the last 48 hours, 19:00 UTC saw the highest activity, with an average of 3 players.
Server Tags
How should the tags on The Carnivorous Cactus be interpreted?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags The Carnivorous Cactus publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join; cs166586 (Build): Game build number: 166586; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use; $r? (Region code): Region code not set; ^m (Monthly): Wipe cycle: monthly, with the force wipe; ^z (Modded): Under Modded, because plugins or settings modify play; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and the time its world was made, all from the tags.
The Carnivorous Cactus in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters: which ones?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include The Carnivorous Cactus are: Best modded Rust servers and North American Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that bring it up are: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Information
What Rust version is The Carnivorous Cactus on?
On Windows, The Carnivorous Cactus runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. Steam updates your game automatically, but it needs to match the protocol to join.
How smooth is the performance on The Carnivorous Cactus?
Over 48 hours, it averaged 58 server fps; the lowest was 46. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world accounted for up to 89,937 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,642 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
How reliable is The Carnivorous Cactus and is it online?
The Carnivorous Cactus is currently online. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 17 hours ago. Over the past 7 full days, it was online 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. The first time BestRustServers.xyz saw it was on 13 September 2026.
Where can The Carnivorous Cactus be found?
With its NA tag, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself in North America. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 45.59.162.29:28080 is its address.
Rules & Map
Which map is used on The Carnivorous Cactus?
A procedural map of size 3,500 and seed 108205031 is what The Carnivorous Cactus runs, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What rules and configuration does The Carnivorous Cactus have?
The name The Carnivorous Cactus carries no gather multiplier. With no stated limit, groups default to 8 players. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Listed as Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins in use: Carbon. The server has VAC on.
Wipe Information
The Carnivorous Cactus wipe schedule: what does it show?
The Carnivorous Cactus wipes at the monthly force wipe only. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world in play was made 11 days 10 hours. Monthly wipes appear in its tags.
What happens on wipe day on The Carnivorous Cactus?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 the crowd had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
How to Join
The Carnivorous Cactus joining: how is it done?
Use the F1 console: client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080. Launch Rust on this page does the same by opening Rust through Steam and connecting.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166586,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival gameplay.
mp50- Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2634- Protocol Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join.
cs166586- Build Game build number: 166586.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use.
$r?- Region code Region code not set.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Wipe cycle: monthly, with the force wipe.
Mods and access
^z- Modded Under Modded, because plugins or settings modify play.
^y- Carbon Plugin framework: Carbon.
Region
NA- North America The server browser lists it 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.