Natural Selection
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 75 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 2
- Rank
- #7,779 top 35% · #2025 in EU
- Rank · 7d ago
- #5,231 ▼2548 places down
- Last wipe
- 13d ago monthly schedule
- Next wipe
- 20d 23h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
- Group limit
- teams off players per team
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 13 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 6000 Procedural Map
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026 no hostname published
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 2 players.
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 35% of all ranked servers, top 71% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes only- wipe-day peak
- 2 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 20d 23hThu 5 Nov, 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 FW13d 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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|РУССКИЙ 10.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 87 on average | 16/1000 | ▼−3−13.9% | |
| 2 | 404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|EU MAIN 11.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 71 on average | 21/700 | ▼−21−49.8% | |
| 3 | 404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|РОССИЯ 15.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 70 on average | 349/1000 | ▲+341+4355.3% | |
| 4 | 666 RUST /ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ /РУССКИЙ 09.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 66 on average | 8/650 | ▼−3−25.0% | |
| 5 | 404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|СИБИРСКИЙ 13.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 66 on average | 127/700 | ▼−76−37.3% | |
| 6 | 404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|РОССИЙСКИЙ 14.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 59 on average | 184/1000 | ▼−120−39.6% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and Rules
How is Natural Selection configured in terms of rules and settings?
No gather rate is given in the name of Natural Selection. No group limit is published. hardcore is the mode, Facepunch's hardest mode. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded is its category in the server browser; plugins or settings modify the game. Oxide plugins are in use. Rust premium status is required to join. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.
What is the current map on Natural Selection?
A procedural map of size 6,000 runs on Natural Selection, created by the game.
Player Count
What is the rank of Natural Selection?
In the top 35% of all ranked servers, Natural Selection is #7,779 on player hours over the last seven days and #2,025 in Europe.
What is the population on Natural Selection?
On Natural Selection, 0 players are in now, out of 75 slots. The mean over the last seven days is 0 players, reaching 2 at its highest. Over the last 48 hours, the peak hour was 22:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Wipe Cycle
What happens on wipe day at Natural Selection?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. On the latest wipe, 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked.
On what cycle does Natural Selection wipe?
Once a month, at the force wipe, Natural Selection wipes. When every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, that is its next wipe. 13 days 21 hours ago the current world was created. Its tags list a wipe each month.
Server Details
What is the server location for Natural Selection?
With the EU tag, Natural Selection lists itself in Europe. The location shown by Rust Analytics is the one a server states; it does not verify the machine's position. You can reach it at 66.51.97.50:28010.
How is the performance on Natural Selection?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours is 59; the floor was 55. 203,611 entities is the maximum carried: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,311 MB of memory was used. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
Natural Selection runs which version of Rust?
The version in use at Natural Selection: Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398, on Linux. Your game needs the same protocol to get in; Steam takes care of the update.
Is Natural Selection up, and how consistent is its uptime?
Online at this moment: Natural Selection. Its own uptime figure dates the last restart to roughly 6 days ago. The last 7 full days give 100% uptime, 168 hours on out of 168. First sighting by Rust Analytics: 1 October 2026.
Tags & Filters
How should you interpret the tags on Natural Selection?
The game's server browser reads gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules, which are tougher; mp75 (Max players): Slot count: 75; ts0 (Group limit): The team system is off; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: matching game versions are required to join; cs167398 (Build): It runs build 167398; ptrak (Networking): Runs on RakNet, Rust's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): A single wipe each month, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): The hardcore ruleset from Facepunch: fewer helpers, harder survival; ^q (Premium): Rust premium status is required to join; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing: the game is changed by plugins or settings; EU (Europe): Europe is its browser listing, which Natural Selection publishes. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
On Rust Analytics, which lists and filters feature Natural Selection?
These Rust Analytics lists include Natural Selection: Rust servers: Europe and Modded Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How to Join
What steps do I take to join Natural Selection?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead. Rust premium status is required to join.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$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.