Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore
Join the server Their website ↗OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 1%.
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
51.161.198.57:28015
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 224 places on last week. Top 1% of all ranked servers, top 5% in OC. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Welcome to Reddit's official /r/PlayRust AU Softcore server! - No cheating or exploiting. No impersonation of staff members. - No spam, racism/slurs, discrimination. VIP: vip.redditplayrust.com Rules & Support: redditplayrust.com Discord: discord.gg/playrust Monthly Map Wipe @ Force / BP Wipe @ Forced
Spec sheet
- Address
- 51.161.198.57:28015
- Region
- OC
- Max players
- 150
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:04 UTC
- Hostname
- au.softcore.rplayrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · rplayrust.com
- Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Monthly 368/500 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Trio 287/300 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Main 271/350 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Low Pop 170/200 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Small 143/200 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Monthly 60/450 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Biweekly 52/200 · Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop 45/200
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 settings does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore use?
No gather rate appears in the name of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore. The group cap is 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Rust's in-game Official tab includes it. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore?
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore uses a custom map of 4,000; the published file can be downloaded here.
Server tags
What do Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore's tags signify?
official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are gentler; mp150 (Max players): Slot count: 150; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Running build 167058; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): Browser listing: Oceania; rustmaps (Custom tag): This is no standard Rust tag; a plugin or the owner put it there are the tags Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore 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.
Where does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore: Oceania Rust servers, live and Official Rust servers, busiest first. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore?
A rplayrust.com hostname is published by Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore, and by 16 other servers we track, so the same operator most likely runs them.
Server details
Performance of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 30, with a low of 23. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 267,990 entities. Memory use peaked at 7,467 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the physical location of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore?
The OC tag is what Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore uses to list itself in Oceania. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 51.161.198.57:28015.
What's the uptime like on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore?
Online: Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore, at this moment. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 18 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux: that is Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
How does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 129 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 40 hours after it.
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore wipes on what schedule?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore, 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 6 days 21 hours. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore place?
Seven-day player hours put Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore at #322, within the top 1% of ranked servers and #10 across Oceania. For quad servers, #23 is its place.
Is Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore busy?
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore is showing 41 players on 150 slots right now. It averaged 67 players over the last seven days and peaked at 147. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 09:00 UTC, with an average of 118 players.
How to join
What's the process to join Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 51.161.198.57:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. You can find its website at https://redditplayrust.com/login.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,OC,gmsoftcore,cs167058,ts4,^o,rustmaps.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.