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| VF | Softcore | PvP |

Online 104.129.133.41:28049 checked 2h ago

quad monthly wipes carbonsoftcorepremium
Sp1 · players now 0/ 40
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTCpeak 1°
Mon 20:00flare: a wipe in that hourWed 17:00
0
7-day average
peak 1
#9,131
rank
top 41%
26d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
7d 23h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 2h ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75120:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

01020304020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 41% of all ranked servers, and #476 of the quad servers (top 57%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 23h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 20 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC FW26d ago 1 – running 0

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.

Bx6Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
[EA] Softcore 1
quad · monthly · 67 on average
55 / 350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2
NA · quad · monthly · 60 on average
48 / 300
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore
OC · quad · monthly · 34 on average
20 / 150
8 / 200
8 / 80
[RU] Friendly Rust – Vanilla Softcore | 2x2 Русский
EU · quad · monthly · 7 on average
9 / 100

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 1 players. 20 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out.

What is the wipe schedule on | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all | VF | Softcore | PvP | runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. The world in play now was made 26 days 23 hours ago. The tags list one wipe a month.

Player counts

How busy is | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

The current population of | VF | Softcore | PvP | is 0, against 40 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players, with a peak of 1. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 05:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

How does | VF | Softcore | PvP | rank against other Rust servers?

The top 41% of ranked servers includes | VF | Softcore | PvP |, at #9,131 for player hours over the last seven days. Ranked against other quad servers, it comes in at #476.

Settings and rules

Which map does | VF | Softcore | PvP | run?

| VF | Softcore | PvP | runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 101042635, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

The name | VF | Softcore | PvP | does not specify a gather rate. Player groups are capped at 4 (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's softer mode: you keep some of what you had. You can fight other players and raid their bases. In the server browser it appears under Community, as a community server. Plugin count: Carbon. Joining requires premium status in Rust. Anti-cheat: Valve's VAC is on.

Location and uptime

Which version of Rust does | VF | Softcore | PvP | run?

The build on | VF | Softcore | PvP | is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Linux. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.

Is | VF | Softcore | PvP | online, and how reliable is it?

Right now | VF | Softcore | PvP | shows as online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 9 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.

Where is | VF | Softcore | PvP | located?

Nothing about a region comes from | VF | Softcore | PvP |. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 104.129.133.41:28049.

Does | VF | Softcore | PvP | run smoothly?

Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 30; it never dropped below 12. The world held as many as 123,696 entities, buildings and deployables included. The highest memory use was 3,904 MB. What players call lag is low fps together with a growing entity count.

Lists and filters

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

Best Rust community servers are the Rust Heatmap lists that | VF | Softcore | PvP | fits. Filtering the list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Premium ^q and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly brings it up.

What do the server tags on | VF | Softcore | PvP | mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags | VF | Softcore | PvP | publishes: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are easier; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): This build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe marks the monthly wipe here; ^s (Softcore): You keep part of your inventory when you die; this is Facepunch's softcore mode; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon; ^q (Premium): Joining requires premium status in Rust. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

Connect

How do I join | VF | Softcore | PvP |?

Enter client.connect 104.129.133.41:28049 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you. Joining requires premium status in Rust. The server's site sits at https://discord.com/invite/VanillaFudge.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^y,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs168909,^q,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules, which are easier.
mp40
Max players Slot count: 40.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4.
v2635
Protocol Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in.
cs168909
Build This build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code A region code is not set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Facepunch's force wipe marks the monthly wipe here.

Difficulty

^s
Softcore You keep part of your inventory when you die; this is Facepunch's softcore mode.

Mods and access

^y
Carbon Plugins run through Carbon.
^q
Premium Joining requires premium status in Rust.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.