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Rusty Skulls

Online, with 0 of 50 players on; ranked #12,454 of every public Rust server, the top 56%. It last wiped 27d ago.

Filed under
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0/ 50 players now 0% full
07-day averagepeak 1
#12,454ranktop 56%
27d agolast wipeno schedule published
7d 15hnext wipeThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The crowd

Players

Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.

AveragePeak
0123404:0013:0022:0006:0015:0001:00

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.

010020030040004:0013:0022:0006:0015:0001:00

Note: 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.

The standings

Rank

Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Note: Top 56% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Force wipes only.

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

0 wipe-day peak players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 15hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

The record

Wipes

Every wipe we saw, newest first.

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:33 UTC FW27d ago 0 – running 0

Note: 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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The short version

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Wipe cycle

What does Rusty Skulls look like once wipe day arrives?

The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd on the server reached its peak.

How often does Rusty Skulls wipe, and on which day?

The only wipe on Rusty Skulls is the monthly 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 you are playing on now was made 27 days 9 hours ago.

About the server

Does Rusty Skulls hold a steady frame rate?

Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 200, with a floor of 162. At its highest the entity count reached 44,206: buildings, deployables and everything else. It drew as much as 2,366 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are what players experience as lag.

On what version does Rusty Skulls currently run?

Running on Linux, Rusty Skulls is on Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Has Rusty Skulls stayed online, and is it up now?

Rusty Skulls is currently reachable and online. Going by the uptime figure it gives, its last restart was around 6 days 7 hours ago. It spent 167 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026 is when Rust Insights first saw it.

What location is listed for Rusty Skulls?

No region is published by Rusty Skulls. Rust Insights takes the location from what a server says about itself; no check is made of where the machine stands. You can reach it at 147.135.31.203:28015.

Tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rusty Skulls?

The tags gmvanilla (Game mode): This server runs vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty are what Rusty Skulls publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was created, all of which appear at the top of this page.

On which Rust Insights lists does Rusty Skulls appear?

The Rust Insights lists that carry Rusty Skulls are Best Rust community servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player counts

What does the population of Rusty Skulls look like?

Rusty Skulls shows 0 players at the moment, against 50 slots. A weekly average of 0 players goes with a peak of 1.

In the ranking of Rust servers, where does Rusty Skulls place?

The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts Rusty Skulls at #12,454, among the top 56% of all ranked servers.

Map and rules

What are the settings and rules for Rusty Skulls?

Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of Rusty Skulls. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. Community is the browser category it appears in. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.

Which map is live on Rusty Skulls?

Rusty Skulls runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 169749001, generated by the game. Size and seed give the same map each time, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

Connecting

How can you get onto Rusty Skulls?

Type client.connect 147.135.31.203:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam. You will find its website at https://rustyskulls.com/.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This server runs vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players 50 slots in total.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: 8 per team at most.
v2635
Protocol Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635.
cs168909
Build Build 168909 is what it runs.
ptrak
Networking Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Note: 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.