Natural Selection
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 22%.
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
66.51.97.50:28010
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 5032 places on last week. Top 22% of all ranked servers, top 57% in EU. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 66.51.97.50:28010
- Region
- EU
- Max players
- 75
- Group limit
- teams off
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 22:31 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 1 Oct 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 settings does Natural Selection use?
No gather rate appears in the name of Natural Selection. The group limit is not published. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most difficult mode. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Natural Selection?
A procedural map of 6,000 is in use on Natural Selection, made by the game.
Server tags
What are the tags on Natural Selection for?
The game's server browser reads the tags Natural Selection publishes: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher set of rules: hardcore; mp75 (Max players): 75 players fit in; ts0 (Group limit): No teams on this server; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore rules: fewer aids, survival bites harder; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; EU (Europe): The server browser files it under Europe. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Which Boongarust filters show Natural Selection?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Natural Selection: EU Rust servers and Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
How smooth is Natural Selection?
Server fps held an average of 57 across the last 48 hours, minimum 51. The entity count reached 203,530: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 5,134 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
Where can you find Natural Selection?
The EU tag is what Natural Selection uses to list itself in Europe. 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 66.51.97.50:28010.
How reliable is Natural Selection?
Natural Selection is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 2 days 23 hours ago. Last 6 full days: 100% uptime, with 144 hours up out of 144. 1 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Natural Selection have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Natural Selection. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at Natural Selection?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
Natural Selection wipes on what schedule?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Natural Selection, 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 23 hours. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Natural Selection place?
Ranked #5,197 on the week's player hours, Natural Selection sits in the top 22% overall and #1,648 in Europe.
Is Natural Selection busy?
0 players are on Natural Selection at the moment, out of 75 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 19:00 UTC, with an average of 2 players.
Join the server
How can you get into Natural Selection?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. 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 mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^h,EU,gmhardcore,cs166652,ts0,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.