LiveLive coverage · NA
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 51% of all ranked servers, top 71% in NA. 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 8d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The current map
Friday 2 October 2026, 18:10 UTC
Wipe
Monday 14 September 2026, 22:12 UTC
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1 when it did not hold.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe The Carnivorous Cactus takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 25 days 8 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include The Carnivorous Cactus are Modded Rust servers live now and North America Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugins run through Carbon; NA (North America): North America is the browser listing for this server, which The Carnivorous Cactus publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
The Carnivorous Cactus is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 50 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 1. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 21:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
North America places The Carnivorous Cactus at #1,339; overall it is #11,319, inside the top 51% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours.
Nothing in the name of The Carnivorous Cactus states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Plugins run here: Carbon. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 108205031, generated by the game, runs on The Carnivorous Cactus. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
By its own NA tag, The Carnivorous Cactus sits in North America. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 45.59.162.29:28080.
Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 59. It supported up to 78,445 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,666 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on The Carnivorous Cactus is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, The Carnivorous Cactus is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 13 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
