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Southern Grid AU

Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 14m ago

monthly wipes vanillaoxidepremium
Sp1 · players now 0/ 50
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTCpeak 1°
Sun 22:00flare: a wipe in that hourTue 20:00
0
7-day average
peak 4
#5,253
rank
top 24% · #123 in OC
25d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
8d 21h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 14m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75122:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 24% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 21h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctThu 1 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 35 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC25d ago 1 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTC FW26d ago 2 – 0.4 days 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.

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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Southern Grid AU?

Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 2 players. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?

A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all Southern Grid AU runs. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as for every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 16 hours ago. The tags list one wipe a month.

Population

How busy is Southern Grid AU?

Southern Grid AU currently has 0 of its 50 slots filled. The average across the last seven days is 0 players; the peak reached 4. Look at 07:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 1 players.

How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?

On player hours over the last seven days, Southern Grid AU is #5,253 globally (top 24%) and #123 in Oceania.

Rules and settings

Which map does Southern Grid AU run?

Southern Grid AU runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1883130744, 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 Southern Grid AU?

A gather rate is not given in the name Southern Grid AU. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser; it is a community server. Oxide plugins run on this server. Its own label is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. To join, you need Rust's premium status. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Southern Grid AU run?

The build on Southern Grid AU is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Linux. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?

Online now: Southern Grid AU. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 1 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 100%. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 13 September 2026.

Where is Southern Grid AU located?

In Oceania, Southern Grid AU lists itself with the OC tag. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. To connect, use 51.161.198.78:28070.

Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?

The last 48 hours brought an average of 10 server fps and a floor of 5. The world held as many as 122,719 entities, buildings and deployables included. The highest memory use was 3,734 MB. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Lists and filters

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Southern Grid AU?

Best Rust community servers, Oceania Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, busiest first are the Rust Heatmap lists that Southern Grid AU fits. Filtering the list by Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly brings it up.

What do the server tags on Southern Grid AU mean?

These are the tags Southern Grid AU publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp50 (Max players): This server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; 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; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^q (Premium): To join, you need Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

How to join

How do I join Southern Grid AU?

To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam. To join, you need Rust's premium status.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust form.
mp50
Max players This server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it.
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

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^q
Premium To join, you need Rust's premium status.
^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).

Region

OC
Oceania In the server browser it sits under Oceania.

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.