Natural Selection
Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 10m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server performance
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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 38% of all ranked servers, top 73% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 22:31 UTC FW27d ago | 2° | – | 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 wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe day
What does wipe day look like on Natural Selection?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 1 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out.
What is the wipe schedule on Natural Selection?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all Natural Selection runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. 27 days 15 hours ago the server made the world it is on now. Its tags state a wipe each month.
Population
How busy is Natural Selection?
The current population of Natural Selection is 0, against 75 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players, with a peak of 1.
How does Natural Selection rank against other Rust servers?
Top 38% of ranked servers and #2,121 in Europe: that is Natural Selection at #8,391 for player hours over seven days.
Map and rules
Which map does Natural Selection run?
A procedural map of size 6,000, generated by the game, runs on Natural Selection.
What are the rules and settings on Natural Selection?
The name Natural Selection does not specify a gather rate. A group limit is not made public. The server runs hardcore, Facepunch's most punishing ruleset. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Plugin count: Oxide. Joining requires premium status in Rust. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Location and uptime
Which version of Rust does Natural Selection run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Natural Selection runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is Natural Selection online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Natural Selection shows as online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 14 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 1 October 2026.
Where is Natural Selection located?
With its EU tag, Natural Selection lists itself in Europe. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 66.51.97.50:28010.
Does Natural Selection run smoothly?
It averaged 5 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. The world held as many as 204,250 entities, buildings and deployables included. The highest memory use was 5,073 MB. What players call lag is low fps together with a growing entity count.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Natural Selection?
The Rust Heatmap lists that Natural Selection fits are: EU Rust servers, busiest first and Modded Rust servers, by live population. These are the filters that return it on the list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Natural Selection mean?
These are the tags Natural Selection publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmhardcore (Game mode): The ruleset is hardcore, the harsher one; mp75 (Max players): The slot count is 75; ts0 (Group limit): The teams system is switched off; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch hardcore, where survival is harsher and helpers are fewer; ^q (Premium): Joining requires premium status in Rust; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.
Connect
How do I join Natural Selection?
Enter client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010 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.