Salty Sheep
NA 47.205.83.235:28015 checked 5h 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 11 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 71% of all ranked servers, top 83% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 17h. The force wipe
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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Quick answers
Population
Where does Salty Sheep sit in the rankings?
Player hours over the last seven days place Salty Sheep at #1,544 in North America, and at #15,974 in the top 71% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Salty Sheep?
At this moment, Salty Sheep is offline, with the last sighting 5 hours ago. Averaged across the last seven days: 0 players.
Server Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on Salty Sheep?
For Salty Sheep, the game's server browser reads the following tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp20 (Max players): The server has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use; $r? (Region code): Region code not set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^z (Modded): Under Modded, because plugins or settings modify play; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America. Current players, queue and world creation time come from the tags and appear at the top of this page.
Salty Sheep in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters: which ones?
These BestRustServers.xyz lists include Salty Sheep: Best modded Rust servers and North American Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Overview
Salty Sheep Rust version: which one?
On Windows, Salty Sheep runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Your game has to match the protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
Salty Sheep performance: is it smooth?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 225, never dropping below 165. The entity count reached 91,253, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. At its highest, memory usage was 2,719 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
Salty Sheep uptime and reliability: what are they?
Last seen 5 hours ago, Salty Sheep is currently offline. About 11 minutes ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was up 56% of the time over the last 2 full days, 27 of 48 hours. On 11 October 2026, BestRustServers.xyz saw it for the first time.
What is the location of Salty Sheep?
With its NA tag, Salty Sheep lists itself in North America. BestRustServers.xyz does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 47.205.83.235:28015 is its address.
Rules and Settings
Which map is used on Salty Sheep?
On Salty Sheep, the map is procedural, size 4,000 with seed 965939955, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What rules and configuration does Salty Sheep have?
No gather rate appears in the name of Salty Sheep. The default cap of 8 players per group is in force. It runs 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. Self-described as vanilla: as Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC protection is on.
Wipe Cycle
When does Salty Sheep wipe?
The next wipe for Salty Sheep is an estimate based on 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 in play was made 12 days 7 hours. The tags declare wipes once a month.
Connect
What is the process to join Salty Sheep?
To connect, type client.connect 47.205.83.235:28015 in the F1 console. Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and joins you.
Server tags
Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp20- Max players The server has 20 slots.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2634- Protocol Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167398- Build Build 167398.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use.
$r?- Region code Region code not set.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Monthly wipes, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.
Difficulty
^v- Vanilla As Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged.
Mods and access
^z- Modded Under Modded, because plugins or settings modify play.
^y- Carbon Carbon provides the plugin framework here.
Region
NA- North America In the server browser it appears 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.