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Natural Selection
Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 6m 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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 41% of all ranked servers, top 75% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h.
The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 2hThu 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 2, 1 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
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01MODPlayers 98/700
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02MODPlayers 238/700
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03MODPlayers 23/1000
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04MODPlayers 146/1000
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05MODPlayers 361/1000
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06MODPlayers 519/1000
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Filters
Which Rust Tracker filters and lists carry Natural Selection?
EU Rust servers, tracked live and Modded servers, tracked live — the Rust Tracker lists that include Natural Selection. On the server list, these filters bring it up: 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.
Which tags does Natural Selection carry, and what do they mean?
These tags are published by Natural Selection for the game's server browser to read: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset: hardcore; mp75 (Max players): Capacity: 75 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams — the setting is off; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Follows Facepunch's force wipe: one wipe per month; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore ruleset: harsher survival, fewer helpers; ^q (Premium): Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings; EU (Europe): Server browser: listed under Europe. 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 Schedule
What should you expect on Natural Selection when wipe day lands?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
When does Natural Selection wipe?
The only wipe at Natural Selection is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe lands, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes with it. 27 days 18 hours since this world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Server Details
How reliable is Natural Selection, and is it online now?
Right now Natural Selection is online. By its own uptime figure, the last restart was roughly 17 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days: 99% uptime. Rust Tracker logged it first on 1 October 2026.
Which Rust build is Natural Selection running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Natural Selection runs. Steam updates it for you; your game must share the protocol to join.
What is performance like on Natural Selection?
Server fps held an average of 5 across the last 48 hours, never below 5. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world took it to a maximum of 204,250 entities. Memory peaked at 5,073 MB. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
What location is Natural Selection hosted in?
Listed in Europe under EU: that is Natural Selection by its own tags. The location shown by Rust Tracker is the server's own claim; no lookup of the machine's position is made. You connect at 66.51.97.50:28010.
Population
What is the player count on Natural Selection?
Tracking Natural Selection: 0 of 75 slots filled. Seven-day average 0 players; peak 1.
Where does Natural Selection sit in the server rankings?
Natural Selection places #9,068 on seven-day player hours, #2,177 in Europe and in the top 41% of all ranked servers.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on Natural Selection?
No gather rate appears in Natural Selection's name. No group limit is published. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most punishing mode. Players can raid and fight each other here. Plugins or settings change the game, and the server browser lists it under Modded. The plugin count stands at Oxide. Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is loaded on Natural Selection?
A procedural map of size 6,000 runs on Natural Selection, generated by the game.
How to Join
Which steps join Natural Selection?
To connect: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010 in the console. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and join. Access is limited to players with Rust's premium status.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^h,EU,gmhardcore,cs168909,^q,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmhardcore
mp75
ts0
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^h
Mods and access
^q
^o
^z
Region
EU
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.