Operation Birddog
Online NA 89.28.237.37:28030 checked 10m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 41% of all ranked servers, top 67% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 18d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 18d 21hThu 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, 23 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 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
- 78/ 200
- 47/ 100
- 67/ 200
- 79/ 100
- 63/ 150
- 30/ 420
Quick answers
Tags and listings
Where does Operation Birddog appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?
These Rust Going Deep lists include Operation Birddog: Modded Rust servers, Go deep on PvE servers and North American Rust server list. You can find it on the server list by these filters: 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.
What's the meaning of the tags on Operation Birddog?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, as standard Rust does it; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It's on build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer Rust uses by default; $r? (Region code): No region is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe is when this server wipes each month; ^p (PvE): It's player versus environment, so the world poses the risk, not other players; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings make changes, so it's listed as Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America — that is the tag list Operation Birddog puts out for the game's server browser. Live pop, queue length and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
About the server
What's the performance like on Operation Birddog?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 8 server fps, never dropping below 5. The entity count reached a high of 75,061, covering buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,620 MB. A climbing entity count together with low fps is what feels like lag to players.
What's the location of Operation Birddog?
Operation Birddog lists North America as its location, with the NA tag. Rust Going Deep reports the location a server claims; it does not check where the machine actually is. The endpoint is 89.28.237.37:28030.
How reliable is Operation Birddog?
Operation Birddog is live as of this check. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. In the last full 7 days, 168 of 168 hours were online, 100% uptime. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Going Deep first saw it.
What Rust version is Operation Birddog on?
The version on Operation Birddog is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam takes care of updating it.
Wipe info
What schedule does Operation Birddog follow for wipes?
The only wipe Operation Birddog takes is the monthly force wipe. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are on now was created 16 days 3 hours. The tags list wipes scheduled every month.
What happens on wipe day at Operation Birddog?
Across its recent wipes, the average busiest point drew 2 players. The peak crowd on the latest wipe came 23 hours in.
Settings and map
Which rules and settings is Operation Birddog running?
Its name does not state a gather rate for Operation Birddog. 8 players is the group cap, the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. The server browser puts it under Modded, as plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running here. The server runs Valve's anti-cheat, VAC.
What's the map on Operation Birddog?
A game-generated procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 1 is in play on Operation Birddog. The map is reproducible from its size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Population
Is Operation Birddog busy?
Out of 50 slots, 0 are filled on Operation Birddog right now. For the past week, players averaged 0 with a high of 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 12:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
What position does Operation Birddog hold in the server rankings?
Operation Birddog ranks #9,020 for player hours over the last seven days, #1,244 in North America and in the top 41% of ranked servers.
How to join
What's the process to join Operation Birddog?
To join, open Rust, hit F1, and enter client.connect 89.28.237.37:28030. Or click Launch Rust on this page to open the game through Steam and connect.