LiveLive coverage · OC
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 24% of all ranked servers, top 58% in OC. 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 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 35 hours in.
The current map
Friday 2 October 2026, 05:39 UTC
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 35 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Southern Grid AU takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 25 days 23 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Southern Grid AU fits: Live Oceanic Rust servers, Live Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; 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): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to join this server; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; OC (Oceania): Oceania is the browser listing for this server: that is the tag list Southern Grid AU publishes for the game's server browser. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Southern Grid AU is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 50 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 4. Peak hour over 48 hours: 07:00 UTC, at 1 players on average.
Southern Grid AU is #120 in Oceania on the past week's player hours, and #5,231 overall in the top 24% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Southern Grid AU states a gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it under Community in the server browser. The plugin load is Oxide. By its own label it is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. You need Rust's premium status to join this server. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,500, seed 1883130744: that is the procedural map the game generates for Southern Grid AU. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
The OC tag on Southern Grid AU lists it in Oceania. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. You can reach it at 51.161.198.78:28070.
It never went below 5 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 11. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 122,719 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,734 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Southern Grid AU operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Southern Grid AU is online. About 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070. You need Rust's premium status to join this server.