THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 14%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
172.240.229.71:28085
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 567 places on last week. Top 14% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Welcome to The Vanilla! We are a community friendly server. Come learn the game, relax, build, explore, hunt, fight, raid, and have fun! We enforce a toxic-free community, and welcome both new and experienced players. Casual friendly. SERVER INFO: - Monthly wipe @ Update - Vanilla Rust - NO-DECAY (No upkeep) - Low-Pop - Noob-Friendly - Solo-Friendly - Groups: Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet - Minicopter population increased - Active Admins - Discord: https://discord.gg/kxvhS3Y
Spec sheet
- Address
- 172.240.229.71:28085
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 100
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. The server describes itself as vanilla: untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no house rules. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 48224. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
How should you read the tags on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp100 (Max players): 100 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): Untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no house rules are the tags THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
On these Boongarust lists you will find THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP: Rust servers for new players, The busiest community servers in Rust and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 55, with a low of 49. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 119,282 entities. It drew as much as 4,459 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
No region is published by THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 172.240.229.71:28085.
What's the uptime like on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
Right now THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 1 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 86% uptime, with 144 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP using?
On Windows, THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Wipe day at THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 7 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 16 hours in.
When does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP wipe?
Once a month: THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP wipes at the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 3 days 12 hours ago this server built its current world. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Where does THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP at #3,295, in the top 14% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
5 players are on THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP at the moment, out of 100 slots. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 7. It was busiest at 02:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 5 players on average.
How to join
What's the process to join THE VANILLA NW | NOOB|CASUAL | SOLO DUO TRIO QUAD | LOW POP?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 172.240.229.71:28085. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. Find it at https://discord.com/invite/kxvhS3Y.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.