TheDuckPond
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 20%.
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
51.81.176.97:25586
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
Top 20% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 51.81.176.97:25586
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 6 Oct 2026, 04:06 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 Oct 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 TheDuckPond's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of TheDuckPond. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on TheDuckPond?
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1223917190 is in use on TheDuckPond, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on TheDuckPond?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game are the tags TheDuckPond 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.
What Boongarust lists feature TheDuckPond?
On these Boongarust lists you will find TheDuckPond: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Server details
Performance of TheDuckPond: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 168, with a low of 110. At its peak, it held 138,766 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,003 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the physical location of TheDuckPond?
From TheDuckPond, there is no region. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 51.81.176.97:25586.
How reliable is TheDuckPond?
Right now TheDuckPond is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 9 hours ago. Last 4 full days: 99% uptime, with 95 hours up out of 96. It entered Boongarust's records on 3 October 2026.
Which Rust build does TheDuckPond have?
On Linux, TheDuckPond runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Wipe day at TheDuckPond: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. 19 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
TheDuckPond wipes on what schedule?
There is no predicting the next wipe: TheDuckPond wipes at irregular times. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 2 days 8 hours old.
Population
Where does TheDuckPond sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put TheDuckPond at #4,726, in the top 20% of all ranked servers.
Is TheDuckPond busy?
0 players are on TheDuckPond at the moment, out of 40 slots. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 3. It was busiest at 22:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 2 players on average.
How to join
How can you get into TheDuckPond?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 51.81.176.97:25586. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167058,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.