OnlineEU66.51.97.50:28010checked 10m ago
Natural Selection
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 31% of all ranked servers, top 68% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 2h. 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.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 22:31 UTC FW12d 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.
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Which rules govern Natural Selection?
A gather rate is absent from the name of Natural Selection. No group limit is published. The server runs hardcore, The hardest mode from Facepunch. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins: Oxide. Entry requires Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map is running on Natural Selection?
A procedural map of size 6,000 is what Natural Selection runs, generated by the game.
Tags and filters
Where can Natural Selection be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that Natural Selection fits are: EU Rust servers and Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What information do the tags on Natural Selection convey?
For the game's server browser, Natural Selection publishes: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore mode: survival is harder; mp75 (Max players): Capacity: 75 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams on this server; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): It runs on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch: survival is harder and help is scarcer; ^q (Premium): Entry requires Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay; EU (Europe): You can find it in the Europe 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.
Population
How full is Natural Selection?
0 of 75 slots are filled on Natural Selection right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2. The highest average in the last 48 hours was 1 players at 22:00 UTC.
What position does Natural Selection hold among Rust servers?
Natural Selection ranks #6,937 for player hours over the past seven days, #1,934 in Europe, and is in the top 31% of all ranked servers.
Server details
What is the uptime and reliability of Natural Selection?
You can find Natural Selection online at the moment. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 4 days 21 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 1 October 2026.
What Rust version is used on Natural Selection?
Linux hosts Natural Selection, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What region does Natural Selection serve?
Its EU tag shows Natural Selection lists itself in Europe. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 66.51.97.50:28010.
How well does Natural Selection perform?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 59 server fps, with a low of 40. Up to 203,611 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Memory usage reached up to 5,142 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Wipe information
What should you expect on Natural Selection during a wipe?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 2 players. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.
How often does Natural Selection wipe?
Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on Natural Selection. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 12 days 17 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Join the server
What steps are needed to join Natural Selection?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in. Entry requires Rust's premium status.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^h,EU,gmhardcore,cs167398,^q,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmhardcore
mp75
ts0
v2634
cs167398
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.