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Natural Selection

Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 11m ago

teams off monthly wipes moddedoxidehardcorepremium

Stats

Players
0/ 75
0% full
Slots
75open
75 max players
7-day avg
0
7-day average · peak 1
FPS
5
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
19h 07m
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#10,981
top 49% · #2306 in EU
Last wipe · new game
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe · continue?
6d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

0246820:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 49% of all ranked servers, top 79% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 23h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 23h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 22:31 UTC FW27d ago 2 – running 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which map is loaded on Natural Selection?

Size 6,000, procedural, generated by the game, on Natural Selection.

What are the rules and settings on Natural Selection?

Natural Selection says nothing in its name about a gather rate. Nothing is published about a group cap. Facepunch at its hardest: that is hardcore. Raids and player combat are part of the game. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. It runs plugins: Oxide. Rust's premium status is required to join. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Natural Selection?

Wipes on Natural Selection come once a month, with the force wipe and no other. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 20 hours. A wipe once a month is set out in its tags.

What happens on Natural Selection when wipe day arrives?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in.

Tags

What do the server tags on Natural Selection mean?

Read by the game's server browser, gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset: hardcore; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is off; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server follows a monthly schedule, wiping with Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): This is Facepunch's hardcore setting, with less help and a harder survival; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod) on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings make changes, so it sits under Modded; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe are listed under Natural Selection. From the tags, this page's top section also gives you the current players, the queue and the age of the world.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include Natural Selection?

These Rust Leaderboard lists count Natural Selection among them: Best EU Rust servers and Best modded Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Server details

Which Rust version is Natural Selection on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Natural Selection runs. The protocol has to match on both sides for a join; Steam keeps yours updated.

Is Natural Selection online right now, and how steady has it been?

Right now the lights are on at Natural Selection. About 19 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days: 167 of 168 hours on. 1 October 2026 is when Rust Leaderboard first logged it.

How well does Natural Selection perform?

Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 5, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world took the entity count as high as 204,250. Memory use peaked at 5,073 MB. What reads as lag to players: fps falling and entities piling up.

Where in the world is Natural Selection hosted?

Its EU tag places Natural Selection in Europe. Rust Leaderboard shows the location a server claims and does not look up the machine's real position. 66.51.97.50:28010 is its address.

The crowd

Where does Natural Selection sit on the leaderboard?

Natural Selection takes #10,981 for the week's player hours and #2,306 in Europe, with a spot in the top 49% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Natural Selection right now?

The live score is 0 players on Natural Selection, out of 75 slots. Seven days back: an average of 0 players, a peak of 1.

Getting in

How do I join Natural Selection?

In the Rust console (F1) enter client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. Launch Rust from this page instead and it opens the game through Steam and joins for you. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^h,EU,gmhardcore,cs168909,^q,ts0,^o^z

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset: hardcore.
mp75
Max players The server has 75 slots.
ts0
Group limit Team play is off.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server follows a monthly schedule, wiping with Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore This is Facepunch's hardcore setting, with less help and a harder survival.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.
^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod) on this server.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings make changes, so it sits under Modded.

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it under Europe.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.