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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
fixed weekdays
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 17:52 UTC, in 1d 21h. Every Monday at 17:53 and every Thursday at 17:52 UTC · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The current map
Monday 26 October 2026, 17:53 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 22 October 2026, 17:52 UTC
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Monday 19 October 2026, 17:53 UTC
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Thursday 15 October 2026, 17:54 UTC
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Monday 12 October 2026, 17:54 UTC
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Thursday 8 October 2026, 17:53 UTC
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Monday 5 October 2026, 17:53 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:57 UTC FW
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Monday 28 September 2026, 17:53 UTC
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Thursday 24 September 2026, 17:53 UTC
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Monday 21 September 2026, 17:53 UTC
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Thursday 17 September 2026, 17:56 UTC
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Monday 14 September 2026, 17:54 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
Nuclear 3x runs a every Monday at 17:53 and every Thursday at 17:52 UTC wipe pattern. On Thursday 29 October at 17:52 UTC its next wipe falls due. The world you are playing on was built 26 hours. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: Nuclear 3x and 3 other tracked servers publish a nucleargaming.io hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Nuclear 3x are 3x Rust servers live now and Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days; Gather rate: 3x.
gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; 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; ^w (Weekly): Wipes: every week; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon: that is the tag list Nuclear 3x publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Nuclear 3x, out of 50 slots. Peak over the past week: 1. Average: 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Nuclear 3x is #15,236, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
Read the name for the rate: 3x gathering on Nuclear 3x. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are in use. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Nuclear 3x runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,500, seed 1337. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map. Map name, as listed: Nuclear Map Generation.
No region is published by Nuclear 3x. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 72.73.28.150:28000.
The average server fps was 45 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 23. It supported up to 77,356 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 3,078 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Nuclear 3x runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Nuclear 3x is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 25 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 72.73.28.150:28000 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://nucleargaming.io.
