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 54% of all ranked servers, top 73% 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 8d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 23 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:43 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 2 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 23 hours in.
Nothing wipes Operation Birddog but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. This world dates from 26 days 10 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
On Rust Live Stats, Operation Birddog is listed under Modded Rust servers live now, Rust PvE servers, live now and North America Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^p (PvE): The world is the danger here; players do not fight each other; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser places this server under North America, which Operation Birddog publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Operation Birddog is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Seven-day player hours place Operation Birddog at #11,954 overall, in the top 54% of ranked servers and #1,368 in North America.
Nothing in the name of Operation Birddog states a gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. pve applies here, no fighting other players. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 3,500, seed 1: that is the procedural map the game generates for Operation Birddog. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Its NA tag places Operation Birddog 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 89.28.237.37:28030.
Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. Entity count reached 75,898: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,748 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Operation Birddog runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Operation Birddog is live. About 18 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. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 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 89.28.237.37:28030.
