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IR live Players34,993 Servers11,617 Warm2,836 Fresh wipes · 3h74 Frameevery 5 min
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REC Thermal scan · 48 h Sp1 0° now Linear · 0–30° · slots

The Signal

Online NA 104.192.227.51:28015 checked 11m ago

moddedoxidepve
Sp1 · players now 0/ 30
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
Tue 07:00flare: a wipe in that hourThu 05:00
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,341
rank
top 69% · #1513 in NA
103d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
no wipe seen yet
UTC checked 11m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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
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NA · no group limit · biweekly · 252 on average
174 / 2000
Chrayntopia ♡ ︎PvE | RP | PvP
NA · groups of 8+ · biweekly · 105 on average
57 / 200
[US] RustEZ Scourge PvE | Zombies | No Raiding | No Killing
NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 50 on average
32 / 200
[US] RustEZ Survival PvE | No Decay | No Raiding | No Killing
NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 39 on average
28 / 200
Zombie Land PVE Monthly | Raids | Skills | Custom Maps
NA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 34 on average
23 / 100
Orange Dream | Cozy PvE/RP | No KOS
NA · groups of 8+ · biweekly · 34 on average
18 / 200

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What is the wipe schedule on The Signal?

The record of The Signal's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world in play now was made 103 days 12 hours ago.

Population

How busy is The Signal?

The Signal currently has 0 of its 30 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.

How does The Signal rank against other Rust servers?

On player hours over the last seven days, The Signal is #15,341 globally (top 69%) and #1,513 in North America.

Map and rules

Which map does The Signal run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game, runs on The Signal. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map. You play on a map named Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on The Signal?

The name The Signal does not specify a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins run on this server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

Server details

Which version of Rust does The Signal run?

Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240 on Windows is what The Signal runs. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.

Is The Signal online, and how reliable is it?

Online now: The Signal. About 7 days 10 hours ago is when it last restarted, by its own uptime figure. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 13 September 2026.

Where is The Signal located?

The NA tag is how The Signal lists itself in North America. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 104.192.227.51:28015.

Does The Signal run smoothly?

The last 48 hours brought an average of 37 server fps and a floor of 17. The world held as many as 129,899 entities, buildings and deployables included. The highest memory use was 3,782 MB. Players feel lag when fps falls and the entity count climbs.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Signal?

Modded Rust servers, by live population, Best Rust PvE servers and North America server heatmap are the Rust Heatmap lists that The Signal fits. These are the filters that return it on the list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on The Signal mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags The Signal publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp30 (Max players): The slot count is 30; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2631 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2631 to get in; cs158240 (Build): The game build here is 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^p (PvE): No player fighting here: the world is the danger; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.

Connect

How do I join The Signal?

To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 104.192.227.51:28015. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2631,^p,NA,gmrust,cs158240,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Rust survival, standard rules.
mp30
Max players The slot count is 30.
ts8
Group limit The game default applies: 8 per team at most.
v2631
Protocol Your game must match protocol 2631 to get in.
cs158240
Build The game build here is 158240.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No player fighting here: the world is the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded.

Region

NA
North America North America is where the server browser puts it.

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.