NSW RUST | SMALL
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 24%.
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
45.45.238.235:28080
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
Up 2457 places on last week. Top 24% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Welcome to NSW Rust. Our new vanilla server has a small pop (50), small map (3K), Reduced Base Decay (50%), and full PvP. Please don't be toxic. Have fun!
Spec sheet
- Address
- 45.45.238.235:28080
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 23:27 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.
Server rules
What are NSW RUST | SMALL's rules and configuration?
The name of NSW RUST | SMALL does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on NSW RUST | SMALL?
NSW RUST | SMALL uses a procedural map of 3,000 that the game generates with seed 2015564866. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on NSW RUST | SMALL?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them are the tags NSW RUST | SMALL puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature NSW RUST | SMALL?
On these Boongarust lists you will find NSW RUST | SMALL: 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 details
Is NSW RUST | SMALL laggy?
The 48-hour average was 190 server fps; the floor was 114. The entity count reached 45,131: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 1,542 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of NSW RUST | SMALL?
From NSW RUST | SMALL, there is no region. 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 45.45.238.235:28080.
What's the uptime like on NSW RUST | SMALL?
NSW RUST | SMALL is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 9 hours ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does NSW RUST | SMALL have?
On Windows, NSW RUST | SMALL runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
Wipe day at NSW RUST | SMALL: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does NSW RUST | SMALL wipe?
NSW RUST | SMALL wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are on was made 4 days 5 hours. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
What's NSW RUST | SMALL's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 24% of all ranked servers, NSW RUST | SMALL is #5,695 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on NSW RUST | SMALL?
2 players are on NSW RUST | SMALL at the moment, out of 50 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 03:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join NSW RUST | SMALL?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 45.45.238.235:28080. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.