Citadel of Pops
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 67%.
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
69.164.253.186:25603
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 217 places on last week. Top 67% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 69.164.253.186:25603
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- 6 max
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 10:41 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 settings does Citadel of Pops use?
The name of Citadel of Pops does not include a gather rate. Group size is limited to 6 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. 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 Citadel of Pops?
The map on Citadel of Pops is procedural, size 3,500, generated with seed 172852236 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 Citadel of Pops?
These tags come from Citadel of Pops and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp10 (Max players): 10 players fit in; ts6 (Group limit): 6 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. 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.
Which Boongarust filters show Citadel of Pops?
The Boongarust lists that take Citadel of Pops are: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Performance of Citadel of Pops: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 56 across the last 48 hours, minimum 30. The entity count reached 74,499: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,230 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of Citadel of Pops?
No region comes from Citadel of Pops. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 69.164.253.186:25603.
How often is Citadel of Pops online?
Citadel of Pops is down, with the last sighting 24 hours ago. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 23 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 79% uptime, with 132 hours up out of 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Citadel of Pops have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Citadel of Pops. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How does Citadel of Pops handle wipe day?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 13 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How often does Citadel of Pops wipe?
With so few of Citadel of Pops's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 4 days 23 hours old.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Citadel of Pops place?
Ranked #15,894 on seven-day player hours, Citadel of Pops is in the top 67% overall.
What's the player count on Citadel of Pops?
Down right now: Citadel of Pops, last spotted 24 hours back. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
What's the process to join Citadel of Pops?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 69.164.253.186:25603. 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts6,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.