LiveLive coverage · EU
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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 87% in EU. 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 22:31 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 1 hours in.
Nothing wipes Natural Selection 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 have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Natural Selection are EU Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The server browser reads gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore ruleset: a harsher game; mp75 (Max players): 75 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is disabled; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode: Facepunch's harsher survival, with fewer helpers; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to join this server; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe, which Natural Selection publishes. 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.
Natural Selection is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 75 slots in total. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
Natural Selection is #2,532 in Europe on the past week's player hours, and #15,290 overall in the top 69% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Natural Selection states a gather rate. Group limits are not published. hardcore is the mode, with Hardest of Facepunch's modes. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use. You need Rust's premium status to join this server. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Natural Selection runs a game-generated procedural map of size 6,000.
The EU tag on Natural Selection lists it in Europe. 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 66.51.97.50:28010.
Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. It supported up to 204,389 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 5,073 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Natural Selection runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Natural Selection is up and running at this moment. About 23 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 1 October 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 66.51.97.50:28010. You need Rust's premium status to join this server.
