Operation Birddog
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 34%.
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
89.28.237.37:28030
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 336 places on last week. Top 34% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Operation Birddog is a Pine hosted PVE Rust server. • The server is PVE with PVP at the monuments. • Monthly map wipe, no wipe of skills or BPs. • The decay rate is ¼ and the stack size for food, ammo, and certain resources has been increased. • Basic lights (lanterns, tuna can lamps, and chinese lanterns) turn on at dusk and off at dawn and do not require fuel. • Torches in the torch holder do not decay. • Several shops including deployable nature and kits. • Planted plants do not decay. • Zombies spawn at night and run amok. • Running the skill tree and the following XP events: gas station gang fight, skill tree events, raidable bases, better npc, rad town event, ferry terminal event, super market event and defendable homes.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 89.28.237.37:28030
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:43 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 settings does Operation Birddog use?
The name of Operation Birddog does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. pve is the game mode, player-versus-player combat is off. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Operation Birddog?
The map on Operation Birddog is procedural, size 3,500, generated with seed 1 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What do Operation Birddog's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags Operation Birddog publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^p (PvE): PvE: other players are not the danger, the world is; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): Browser listing: North America. 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 Operation Birddog?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Operation Birddog: Top modded Rust servers, Best Rust PvE servers and North America Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Performance of Operation Birddog: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 58, with a low of 11. At its peak, it held 73,385 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 2,686 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find Operation Birddog?
With its NA tag, Operation Birddog lists itself in North America. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 89.28.237.37:28030.
How reliable is Operation Birddog?
Operation Birddog is up as you read this. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 14 hours ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Operation Birddog using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Operation Birddog. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How does Operation Birddog handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 23 hours in.
When does Operation Birddog wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Operation Birddog, once a month. 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 6 days 6 hours. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Operation Birddog place?
Seven-day player hours put Operation Birddog at #8,196, within the top 34% of ranked servers and #1,243 across North America.
How many players are on Operation Birddog?
Right now, 0 players are on Operation Birddog, which has 50 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 22:00 UTC, with an average of 0 players.
Join the server
How do you connect to Operation Birddog?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 89.28.237.37:28030. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.