Live coverage · Rust server
Offline VP Channel is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 3d ago.
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 39% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
The current map
Tuesday 20 October 2026, 21:36 UTC
Wipe
Monday 28 September 2026, 08:46 UTC
Wipe
Sunday 27 September 2026, 22:53 UTC
Wipe
Friday 25 September 2026, 08:44 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. In 100% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe.
Wipes on VP Channel come at irregular times, and no next date can be given. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. The world you are playing on was built 31 days 1 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, VP Channel is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): The slot count is 10; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): You need protocol 2633 on your game to get in; cs165217 (Build): Build: 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded, which VP Channel 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.
Last seen 3 days 17 hours ago, VP Channel is offline right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
On player hours for the past seven days, VP Channel sits at #8,694, inside the top 39% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name VP Channel. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
VP Channel uses a procedural map, which the game generates.
There is no region from VP Channel. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 81.49.81.249:28015 is its address.
The setup on VP Channel is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 with Windows. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
As of now, VP Channel is offline; the last sighting was 3 days 17 hours ago. It was online for 40 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 24% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 24 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 81.49.81.249:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.