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 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% 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 6d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 6 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:47 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 5 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 6 hours after it.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world dates from 28 days 9 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
A rustascent.com hostname is published by [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly and by 2 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly fits: Live Rust community servers, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly makes public: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp200 (Max players): 200 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^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; ^y (Carbon): It uses the plugin framework Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser places this server under North America. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 200 slots in total. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. Between now and 48 hours back, 20:00 UTC drew the most players, 0 on average.
Seven-day player hours place [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly at #8,206 overall, in the top 37% of ranked servers and #1,179 in North America.
No gather rate appears in the name [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Community is its browser category. Plugins run here: Carbon. By its own label it is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,000, seed 626262276: that is the procedural map the game generates for [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The NA tag on [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly lists it 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 66.51.99.118:28115.
Server fps averaged 29 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 18. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 87,960 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,307 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
[NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly 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.
At the time of this update, [NA] Rust Ascent | Vanilla | Monthly is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 19 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. 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 66.51.99.118:28115. The server's website: https://store.rustascent.com/.
