Natural Selection
Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 9m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 bestTop 45% of all ranked servers, top 76% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 18d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 18d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 22:31 UTC FW16d 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Quick answers
Tags and filters
Where does Natural Selection appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?
The Rust Going Deep lists that carry Natural Selection are: EU Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers. You can find it on the server list by these filters: 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.
How should you read the tags on Natural Selection?
Natural Selection's game browser tags read: gmhardcore (Game mode): The mode is hardcore, which is harsher; mp75 (Max players): The slot count is 75; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version won't get you in; cs167781 (Build): This server runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): Standard RakNet networking; $r? (Region code): No region is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore setting, where survival is harder and help is scarce; ^q (Premium): Rust premium status is required to join; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The Modded category fits: plugins or settings are in play; EU (Europe): Its browser listing sits under Europe. Live pop, queue length and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Server details
How well does Natural Selection perform?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 5 server fps, never dropping below 5. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects added up to as many as 203,307 entities. The top memory figure was 4,297 MB. What players notice as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
What location is Natural Selection in?
The EU tag marks Natural Selection as being in Europe. Rust Going Deep takes the server's word for its location and does not find out where the hardware sits. To connect, use 66.51.97.50:28010.
How reliable is Natural Selection?
Natural Selection is live as of this check. Its reported uptime shows a restart about 2 days 11 hours ago. In the last full 7 days, 168 of 168 hours were online, 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Going Deep was on 1 October 2026.
What is the Rust version for Natural Selection?
On Linux, Natural Selection runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam takes care of updating it.
Wipe schedule
How often does Natural Selection wipe?
One wipe a month is all Natural Selection does, and that is the force wipe. When every Rust server wipes on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, that force wipe is its next wipe. The world you are on now was created 16 days 11 hours. The tags list wipes scheduled every month.
What happens on wipe day at Natural Selection?
The average peak across recent wipes is 2 players. On the latest wipe, 1 hours passed before the crowd peaked.
Rules and settings
What settings and rules have been applied to Natural Selection?
The name of Natural Selection contains no gather rate. There is no published group limit. It runs hardcore, The hardest option from Facepunch. PvP and raiding are enabled. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running here. Rust premium status is required to join. The server runs Valve's anti-cheat, VAC.
What's the map on Natural Selection?
Natural Selection uses a procedural map of size 6,000, made by the game.
Population
What's the population like on Natural Selection?
Natural Selection is holding 0 players on its 75 slots at the moment. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2.
Where does Natural Selection sit in the rankings?
Natural Selection ranks #9,840 for player hours over the last seven days, #2,231 in Europe and in the top 45% of ranked servers.
Join info
What's the process to join Natural Selection?
Open Rust and press F1, then type client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. Alternatively, click Launch Rust on this page to join via Steam. Rust premium status is required to join.