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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 19:13 UTC FW
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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
Nothing wipes OW Mad Science: Events server but the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 28 days 7 hours have passed since this world was generated.
On Rust Live Stats, OW Mad Science: Events server is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so match that version to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded, which OW Mad Science: Events server publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
OW Mad Science: Events server is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 100 slots in total. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put OW Mad Science: Events server at #15,269, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
The name OW Mad Science: Events server carries no gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
OW Mad Science: Events server runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,400, seed 1648840555. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Nothing on OW Mad Science: Events server states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 204.191.220.196:28115.
The average server fps was 133 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 71. It supported up to 67,374 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,237 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
OW Mad Science: Events server operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now OW Mad Science: Events server is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 days 9 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 204.191.220.196:28115. The server's website: https://www.obsidianworlds.com/rust/.