Southern Grid AU
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 40%.
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
51.161.198.78:28070
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 1494 places on last week. Top 40% of all ranked servers, top 81% in OC. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
[ Next wipe 6/Nov @ 5am AEST] A genuine Vanilla Rust environment. - Unrestricted PvP - No group limits - Vanilla loot tables - Standard rates - Active non-Competitive Admin Targeted refinement of the solo ecosystem | easing Rusts natural clan bias. - Subtle additions to solo grubbing & supply drops - Quarry lock | Short window to save your loot - Ping limited | AU/NZ only - Hand-selected procedural maps Come & enjoy Rusts original balanced gameplay with a constantly evolving premium Solo feel
Spec sheet
- Address
- 51.161.198.78:28070
- Region
- OC
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 05:39 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 Southern Grid AU's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Southern Grid AU. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. Plugins running: Oxide. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. Entry needs Rust's premium status. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Southern Grid AU?
Southern Grid AU uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 1883130744. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Southern Grid AU for?
The game's server browser reads the tags Southern Grid AU publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Game build is 167058; 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): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^q (Premium): Entry needs Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; OC (Oceania): You will find it in the browser under Oceania. 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 Southern Grid AU?
The Boongarust lists that take Southern Grid AU are: Oceania Rust servers, live, The busiest community servers in Rust and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is Southern Grid AU?
The 48-hour average was 59 server fps; the floor was 12. At its peak, it held 116,217 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,905 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of Southern Grid AU?
Its OC tag is how Southern Grid AU lists itself in Oceania. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 51.161.198.78:28070.
How reliable is Southern Grid AU?
Online: Southern Grid AU, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 7 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Southern Grid AU using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux: that is Southern Grid AU. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at Southern Grid AU?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 35 hours in.
Southern Grid AU wipes on what schedule?
Once a month: Southern Grid AU wipes at the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world you are on was made 5 days 22 hours. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
Where does Southern Grid AU sit in the rankings?
Seven-day player hours put Southern Grid AU at #9,573, within the top 40% of ranked servers and #175 across Oceania.
What's the player count on Southern Grid AU?
0 players are on Southern Grid AU at the moment, out of 50 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2. It was busiest at 13:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 0 players on average.
How to join
How do you connect to Southern Grid AU?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. Entry needs Rust's premium status.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs167058,^q,ts8,^o.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.