WhyNotRust
NA · us5 91.229.114.120:28015 checked 12m 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 26% of all ranked servers, top 53% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 1.9 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 29 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 16:40 UTC 10d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:08 UTCFW 12d ago | 1 | – | 1.9 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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Quick answers
Player Count
What is the rank of WhyNotRust?
Player hours over the last seven days place WhyNotRust at #975 in North America, and at #5,855 in the top 26% of ranked servers.
Is WhyNotRust busy?
0 of 100 slots are filled on WhyNotRust at the moment. The average player count over the last seven days is 0, with a peak of 2. In the last 48 hours, 19:00 UTC saw the highest activity, with an average of 2 players.
Tags and Filters
What is the meaning of the tags on WhyNotRust?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags WhyNotRust publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $rus5 (Region code): Region code: us5; ^v (Vanilla): The game unmodified: rates, kits and rules as Facepunch ships them; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears 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.
Where does WhyNotRust appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
These BestRustServers.xyz lists include WhyNotRust: Rust community servers, ranked, North American Rust servers and Vanilla-tagged Rust servers. These filters on the server list display it: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Overview
What Rust version is WhyNotRust on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what WhyNotRust uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but it needs to match the protocol to join.
Is the performance on WhyNotRust smooth?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 75, with a low of 31. It held up to 89,906 entities: everything from buildings to deployables in the world. At its highest, memory usage was 2,479 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
WhyNotRust uptime and reliability: what are they?
The server is online: WhyNotRust. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 1 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 WhyNotRust be found?
With its NA tag, WhyNotRust lists itself in North America; its region code is us5. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 91.229.114.120:28015 is its address.
Rules and Settings
WhyNotRust map: which one is it?
On WhyNotRust, the map is procedural, size 4,000 with seed 1361231414, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What are the settings and rules for WhyNotRust?
A gather rate is not given in the name WhyNotRust. The default cap of 8 players per group is in force. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player combat and raiding are enabled. It is a community server, found under Community. Vanilla is the label it uses: the game unmodified: rates, kits and rules as Facepunch ships them. VAC protection is on.
Wipe Information
WhyNotRust wipe schedule: what does it show?
Too few wipes are on record for WhyNotRust to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, takes every Rust server with it. Its world dates from 10 days 17 hours.
On WhyNotRust, what occurs on wipe day?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. 29 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How to Join
How can I connect to WhyNotRust?
To connect, type client.connect 91.229.114.120:28015 in the F1 console. Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and joins you.
Server tags
Published as mp100,ptrak,$rus5,v2634,^v,NA,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival gameplay.
mp100- Max players Slots: 100.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2634- Protocol Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167781- Build Game build number: 167781.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$rus5- Region code Region code: us5.
Difficulty
^v- Vanilla The game unmodified: rates, kits and rules as Facepunch ships them.
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.