Natural Selection
Online EU 66.51.97.50:28010 checked 7m 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 22% of all ranked servers, top 56% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 28d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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 FW6d 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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What is the wipe schedule on Natural Selection?
Natural Selection wipes once a month, with the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 6 days 11 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on Natural Selection?
Its recent wipes drew 2 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 1 hours after the wipe.
Players
How busy is Natural Selection?
Right now Natural Selection has 0 players on 75 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 2. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 19:00 UTC, with 2 players on average.
How does Natural Selection rank against other Rust servers?
Natural Selection is #5,142 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 22% of all ranked servers and #1,646 in Europe.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Natural Selection?
Natural Selection gives no gather rate in its name. It publishes no group limit. Its game mode is hardcore, Facepunch's hardest mode. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Natural Selection run?
Natural Selection runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 6,000.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Natural Selection mean?
Natural Selection publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore: a harsher ruleset; mp75 (Max players): 75 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are switched off; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs166652 (Build): Game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore mode: fewer helpers, harsher survival; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game; EU (Europe): Listed under Europe in the server browser. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Natural Selection?
Natural Selection fits these Zongarust lists: Best EU Rust servers and Best modded Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server
Where is Natural Selection located?
Natural Selection lists itself in Europe with its EU tag. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 66.51.97.50:28010.
Is Natural Selection online, and how reliable is it?
Natural Selection is online right now. It last restarted about 2 days 10 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 6 full days it was up 100% of the time, 144 of 144 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 1 October 2026.
Does Natural Selection run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 57 server fps on average, never below 47. It carried up to 203,455 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,662 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Natural Selection run?
Natural Selection runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Natural Selection?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.97.50:28010. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.