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Southern Grid AU
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 21m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 24% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 17h.
The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 17hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 35 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
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01COMPlayers 16/100
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02COMPlayers 6/250
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03COMPlayers 4/250
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04COMPlayers 1/100
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05COMPlayers 3/500
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06COMPlayers 5/75
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Tracker filters and lists carry Southern Grid AU?
These Rust Tracker lists carry Southern Grid AU: Oceania servers, tracked live, Community servers, no tags and Vanilla Rust servers, tracked live. These filters surface it on the server list: 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.
What do the tags mean that Southern Grid AU is listed under?
These tags are published by Southern Grid AU for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard mode; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Team limit is 8, the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): Follows Facepunch's force wipe: one wipe per month; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — the game as Facepunch ships it; ^q (Premium): Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework confirmed: Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): The server browser lists it under Oceania. At the top of this page you also get the queue, the players now and the world's creation time, all from the tags.
Wipe Times
What should you expect on Southern Grid AU when wipe day lands?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 35 hours after it.
Which wipe times are confirmed for Southern Grid AU?
The only wipe at Southern Grid AU is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world has been running 25 days 19 hours. Tags list a monthly wipe schedule.
Server Details
How reliable is Southern Grid AU, and is it online now?
Southern Grid AU is up and online at this moment. About 5 hours ago it restarted last, based on reported uptime. 168 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days: 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Tracker was 13 September 2026.
Which Rust version is confirmed on Southern Grid AU?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build on Southern Grid AU; the platform is Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is Southern Grid AU holding performance?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours: 10, with a low of 5. Peak entity count: 122,719, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. It drew as much as 3,734 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are what register as lag for players.
What location is Southern Grid AU hosted in?
Listed in Oceania under OC: that is Southern Grid AU by its own tags. Rust Tracker displays the location a server claims; it does not verify where the machine sits. Connect on 51.161.198.78:28070.
Population
What is the player count on Southern Grid AU?
Tracking Southern Grid AU: 0 of 50 slots filled. Over seven days: average 0, peak 4 players. At 07:00 UTC it drew its highest average of the last 48 hours: 1 players.
How does Southern Grid AU compare in the rankings?
Southern Grid AU places #5,271 on seven-day player hours, #122 in Oceania and in the top 24% of all ranked servers.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on Southern Grid AU?
The name of Southern Grid AU carries no gather rate. 8 players per group is the game's default, and the cap holds. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid, as the game intends. Raiding and PvP are permitted between players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. Oxide plugins run on it. Its label is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — the game as Facepunch ships it. Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is confirmed for Southern Grid AU?
A procedural map of size 4,500 runs on Southern Grid AU, generated by the game from seed 1883130744. Same size, same seed, same map. RustMaps shows it, linked from this page.
Connect
Which steps join Southern Grid AU?
Open the console in Rust with F1 after starting the game, then type client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070. Alternatively, Launch Rust here opens Rust via Steam and connects you. Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^q
^o
Region
OC
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.