Rust Player Count
43,831 playing now

OnlineNA45.59.162.29:28080checked 11m ago

The Carnivorous Cactus

monthly wipes moddedcarbon
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 0 peak 3
Rank #7,237 top 32% · #1134 in NA
Last wipe 11d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 22d 9h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0014:0023:0008:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608010:0019:0004:0014:0023:0008:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 32% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 17.8 days between real wipes
Wipe-day peak 1 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 0% else halves by day 1

Coming wipes

22d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctMon 14 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC11d ago 0 – running 0
Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC29d ago 2 halved by day 1 17.8 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What are the server rules for The Carnivorous Cactus?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Carnivorous Cactus. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it in the Modded section: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins: Carbon. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

Which map is running on The Carnivorous Cactus?

The Carnivorous Cactus runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 108205031, generated by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.

Tags, lists and filters

Where can The Carnivorous Cactus be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include The Carnivorous Cactus: Modded Rust servers and North American Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

How should you interpret the tags on The Carnivorous Cactus?

For the game's server browser, The Carnivorous Cactus publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166586 (Build): The game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe; ^z (Modded): This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays; ^y (Carbon): It uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): You can find it in the North America section of the server browser. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.

Player count

What is the player count on The Carnivorous Cactus?

0 of 50 slots are filled on The Carnivorous Cactus right now. The average player count for the last seven days is 0, and the highest point was 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 19:00 UTC, with an average of 3 players.

How does The Carnivorous Cactus compare in server rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, The Carnivorous Cactus is #7,237 overall, #1,134 in North America, and in the top 32% of all ranked servers.

Server details

What is the uptime and reliability of The Carnivorous Cactus?

Right now, The Carnivorous Cactus is up. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 22 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

What is the Rust version for The Carnivorous Cactus?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Windows is what The Carnivorous Cactus uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

Where can you find The Carnivorous Cactus?

Its NA tag shows The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself in North America. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. It is located at 45.59.162.29:28080.

Is The Carnivorous Cactus lag-free?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 57 server fps, with a low of 44. The highest entity count was 90,673, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory usage reached up to 4,164 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe schedule

What happens on The Carnivorous Cactus when a wipe occurs?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 1 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 0 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If not, the crowd went below half by day 1.

What wipe pattern does The Carnivorous Cactus follow?

Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on The Carnivorous Cactus. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world in play was created 11 days 15 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Connect to the server

What steps are needed to join The Carnivorous Cactus?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166586
Build The game build is 166586.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe.

Mods and access

^z
Modded This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays.
^y
Carbon It uses Carbon for plugins.

Region

NA
North America You can find it in the North America section of the server browser.

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.