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Citadel of Pops

Online 69.164.253.186:25603 checked 10m ago

moddedoxide
Sp1 · players now 0/ 10
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
Tue 05:00flare: a wipe in that hourThu 02:00
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,349
rank
top 69%
25d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 10m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0023:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608005:0014:0023:0007:0016:0002:00

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. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 13 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 10:41 UTC25d 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.

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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on Citadel of Pops?

Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 13 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Citadel of Pops?

The record of Citadel of Pops's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 17 hours ago.

Population

How busy is Citadel of Pops?

Of 10 slots on Citadel of Pops, 0 are in use right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.

How does Citadel of Pops rank against other Rust servers?

The top 69% of ranked servers includes Citadel of Pops, at #15,349 for player hours over the last seven days.

Map and rules

Which map does Citadel of Pops run?

A procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 172852236, generated by the game, runs on Citadel of Pops. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Citadel of Pops?

A gather rate is not given in the name Citadel of Pops. A maximum of 6 players is allowed per group. survival is the game mode, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. In the server browser it is Modded, meaning plugins or settings modify the game. Oxide plugins run on this server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

Location and uptime

Which version of Rust does Citadel of Pops run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Citadel of Pops runs. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Citadel of Pops online, and how reliable is it?

The server is up at the moment: Citadel of Pops is online. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 15 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 99%. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 13 September 2026.

Where is Citadel of Pops located?

No region is published by Citadel of Pops. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 69.164.253.186:25603.

Does Citadel of Pops run smoothly?

The last 48 hours brought an average of 59 server fps and a floor of 42. Entities peaked at 75,576, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world. At its peak it held 2,581 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps together with a growing entity count.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Citadel of Pops?

Modded Rust servers, by live population are the Rust Heatmap lists that Citadel of Pops fits. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Citadel of Pops mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Citadel of Pops publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp10 (Max players): This server has 10 slots; ts6 (Group limit): A team holds no more than 6; 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): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded. 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 Citadel of Pops?

Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 69.164.253.186:25603. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts6,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Rust survival, standard rules.
mp10
Max players This server has 10 slots.
ts6
Group limit A team holds no more than 6.
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 No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded.

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.