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Fossil's Playground

Offline OC 51.161.198.94:28055 checked 10d ago

quad monthly wipes softcorepremium
Sp1 · players now 1/ 50
2% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
No hourly readings in the last 48 hours
0
7-day average
peak –
#13,657
rank
top 62% · #177 in OC
19d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
8d 10h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 10d ago

Li2Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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 2 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k3 Oct7 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct

Top 62% of all ranked servers, top 82% in OC, and #579 of the quad servers (top 70%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 10h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 10h
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, 0 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 8 Oct, 23:07 UTC19d ago 1 – running 1

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
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore
OC · quad · monthly · 36 on average
37 / 150
RustForNoobs.com | Solo Duo Trio | Monthly AU
OC · trio · monthly · 17 on average
18 / 200
[EA] Softcore 1
quad · monthly · 68 on average
51 / 350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2
NA · quad · monthly · 61 on average
22 / 300
5 / 200
4 / 80

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on Fossil's Playground?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Fossil's Playground?

A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all Fossil's Playground runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 19 days 9 hours ago. The tags list one wipe a month.

Player counts

How busy is Fossil's Playground?

Last seen 10 days ago, Fossil's Playground is offline at the moment.

How does Fossil's Playground rank against other Rust servers?

Top 62% of ranked servers and #177 in Oceania: that is Fossil's Playground at #13,657 for player hours over seven days. The quad group puts it at #579.

Settings and rules

Which map does Fossil's Playground run?

The map on Fossil's Playground is procedural, size 3,750 with seed 3671786, 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 Fossil's Playground?

A gather rate is not given in the name Fossil's Playground. A group can have at most 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, A more forgiving Facepunch mode, keeping part of your loot. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. To join, you need Rust's premium status. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Fossil's Playground run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the build Fossil's Playground runs, on Linux. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Fossil's Playground online, and how reliable is it?

Last seen 10 days ago, Fossil's Playground is offline right now. 0 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 0%. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 2 October 2026.

Where is Fossil's Playground located?

With its OC tag, Fossil's Playground lists itself in Oceania. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 51.161.198.94:28055.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Fossil's Playground?

These Rust Heatmap lists include Fossil's Playground: Best Rust community servers and Oceania Rust servers. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s and Premium ^q; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Fossil's Playground mean?

gmsoftcore (Game mode): The ruleset is softcore, the easier one; mp50 (Max players): This server has 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): A team holds no more than 4; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634, so your game has to match it; cs167781 (Build): This build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^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; ^q (Premium): To join, you need Rust's premium status; OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania are the tags Fossil's Playground publishes, and the server browser reads them. 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 Fossil's Playground?

To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.161.198.94:28055. 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?,v2634,^m,^s,OC,gmsoftcore,cs167781,^q,ts4

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode The ruleset is softcore, the easier one.
mp50
Max players This server has 50 slots.
ts4
Group limit A team holds no more than 4.
v2634
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2634, so your game has to match it.
cs167781
Build This build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking Standard game networking here, which is RakNet.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

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

^q
Premium To join, you need Rust's premium status.

Region

OC
Oceania The server browser lists it 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.