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The Carnivorous Cactus

Online, with 0 of 50 players on; ranked #10,371 of every public Rust server, the top 47%. It last wiped 25d ago.

Filed under monthly wipes moddedcarbon
Launch Rust and join
The server's own banner, as it publishes it.
0/ 50 players now 0% full
07-day averagepeak 2
#10,371ranktop 47% · #1308 in NA
25d agolast wipemonthly schedule
8d 23hnext wipeThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The crowd

Players

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

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75120:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

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

02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Note: Top 47% of all ranked servers, top 70% in NA. 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 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

17.8 days usual gap between real wipes
1 wipe-day peak players, last three wipes
0% crowd held else halves by day 1

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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

Fri 2 OctMon 14 Sep
00.250.50.751+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
Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC25d ago 0 – running 0
Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC42d ago 2 halved by day 1 17.8 days 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

On The Carnivorous Cactus, what happens on wipe day?

At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, it dropped below half by day 1.

How often does The Carnivorous Cactus wipe, and on which day?

Each month The Carnivorous Cactus wipes, and only with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the force wipe that applies to all Rust servers. This world dates from 25 days ago. The tags put wipes at monthly.

Server details

How well does The Carnivorous Cactus perform?

Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 60, with a floor of 59. At its highest the entity count reached 78,352: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory figure was 2,666 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are what players experience as lag.

What Rust version is live on The Carnivorous Cactus?

Running on Windows, The Carnivorous Cactus is on Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliable is The Carnivorous Cactus, and is it up at the moment?

At the time of this check The Carnivorous Cactus is online. Going by the uptime figure it gives, its last restart was around 6 hours ago. It spent 168 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 100% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 13 September 2026.

What location is listed for The Carnivorous Cactus?

With its NA tag, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself in North America. 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 45.59.162.29:28080.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Carnivorous Cactus?

These tags come from The Carnivorous Cactus and are read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes monthly, together with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it is filed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon is the plugin framework in use; NA (North America): The server browser files this server under North America. 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.

Where does The Carnivorous Cactus turn up among the Rust Insights lists and filters?

These Rust Insights lists include The Carnivorous Cactus: Modded Rust servers, explained and North American Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Population history

How many players are on The Carnivorous Cactus right now?

The Carnivorous Cactus shows 0 players at the moment, against 50 slots. Over the past week it peaked at 2 and averaged 0 players. Look at the last 48 hours and the peak hour is 22:00 UTC, at 0 players on average.

Where does The Carnivorous Cactus sit in the rankings?

In North America, The Carnivorous Cactus is #1,308; across all ranked servers it is #10,371 on seven-day player hours, in the top 47%.

Rules and settings

What are the settings and rules for The Carnivorous Cactus?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Carnivorous Cactus. 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. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It is a Modded entry: plugins or settings modify the game. Carbon is the plugin count it runs. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.

What is the map on The Carnivorous Cactus?

The Carnivorous Cactus runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 108205031, 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 The Carnivorous Cactus?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080. You can skip the console by using Launch Rust here, which starts Rust through Steam and connects you.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard Rust plays.
mp50
Max players The slot count is 50.
ts8
Group limit 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635.
cs168909
Build It runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes monthly, together with the force wipe from Facepunch.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it is filed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon is the plugin framework in use.

Region

NA
North America The server browser files this server under North America.

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.