Rust Player Count
56,435 playing now

OnlineNA74.136.196.241:28023checked 10m ago

The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
Players now 2/ 100 2% full
7-day average 2 peak 7
Rank #2,223 top 10% · #376 in NA
Last wipe 12d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 22d 20h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0246823:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020023:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep25 Sep29 Sep4 Oct8 Oct13 Oct

Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 20% 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 15.9 days between real wipes
Wipe-day peak 6 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

22d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctTue 15 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 8, 1 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:05 UTC FW12d ago 8 – running 1
Tue 15 Sep, 19:43 UTC28d ago 5 held half 15.9 days 2

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

Rules and settings

What are the server rules for The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. roleplay is the game mode, roleplay rules, towns and jobs. You will find it in the Modded section: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What map is used on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?

The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. You can see the map name here: Custom Map.

Tags and filters

Where can The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] fits are: Best Rust roleplay servers, Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers and North American Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What information do the tags on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] convey?

These are the tags The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] publishes for the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Standard vanilla survival; mp100 (Max players): Capacity: 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167584 (Build): Build number: 167584; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^r (Roleplay): Roleplay is the focus here; ^p (PvE): The danger comes from the world, not from other players; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays; NA (North America): The server browser lists this one under North America. 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 many players does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] have?

2 of 100 slots are filled on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] right now. The average player count for the last seven days is 2, and the highest point was 7. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 03:00 UTC, with an average of 6 players.

How does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] compare in server rankings?

The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] ranks #2,223 for player hours over the past seven days, #376 in North America, and is in the top 10% of all ranked servers.

About the server

What is the online status and reliability of The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?

You can find The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 30 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 13 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?

On Windows, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] serve?

Its NA tag shows The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] lists itself in North America. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 74.136.196.241:28023.

How well does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] perform?

Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 143, and it never dropped below 118. Up to 83,268 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 4,485 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe schedule

What changes on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] on wipe day?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 6 players. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

When does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] wipe?

Wipes happen once a month on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded], along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and it affects all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 12 days 4 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

How to join

How can I connect to The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 74.136.196.241:28023. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/dwYuaCmyxt.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^r,NA,^p,gmvanilla,cs167584,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Standard vanilla survival.
mp100
Max players Capacity: 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167584
Build Build number: 167584.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$r?
Region code A region code is not present.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay Roleplay is the focus here.
^p
PvE The danger comes from the world, not from other players.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use.
^z
Modded This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists this one under North America.

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.