The Carnivorous Cactus
NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 11m 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
Top 33% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 17.8 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 1
Coming wipes
- 22d 18hThu 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 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC 11d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC 29d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 17.8 days | 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
Population
How busy is The Carnivorous Cactus?
The Carnivorous Cactus is holding 0 of its 50 slots at the moment. A seven-day average of 0 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 19:00 UTC, when the average was 3 players.
How does The Carnivorous Cactus rank against other Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Carnivorous Cactus is #7,321 for player hours globally and #1,138 in North America, placing it in the top 33% of ranked servers.
Wipe times
What does wipe day look like on The Carnivorous Cactus?
The busiest points of its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaks. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On the occasions it did not hold, the crowd was below half by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on The Carnivorous Cactus?
Once a month, at the force wipe, The Carnivorous Cactus wipes. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next wipe arrives: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 11 days 5 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Server details
Is The Carnivorous Cactus online, and how reliable is it?
Right now The Carnivorous Cactus is up and online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at about 12 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 144 of 168 hours, or 86% of the time. The earliest record When Is Wipe has is 13 September 2026.
Performance of The Carnivorous Cactus: does it run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, average server fps was 59, and it never dropped below 46. At its peak it held 88,093 entities, which covers buildings, deployables and all other objects in the world. The peak memory usage was 3,226 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which version of Rust does The Carnivorous Cactus run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Windows is what The Carnivorous Cactus runs. Joining needs the same protocol version; Steam handles that update for you.
Where is The Carnivorous Cactus located?
With its NA tag, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself in North America. When Is Wipe does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 45.59.162.29:28080 is its address.
Tags, lists
Which When Is Wipe lists include The Carnivorous Cactus? And filters?
The When Is Wipe lists The Carnivorous Cactus fits are: Best modded Rust servers and Rust servers in North America. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on The Carnivorous Cactus mean?
These are the tags The Carnivorous Cactus publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): Capacity is 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166586 (Build): The game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes apply, aligned with the force wipe; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded, with plugins or changed settings; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America. At the top of this page you can see its current players, queue and world creation time, which are in the tags too.
Rules, map
What rules does The Carnivorous Cactus enforce? And settings?
The Carnivorous Cactus's name makes no mention of a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the default. The game mode for this server is survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. PvP and raiding are enabled. In the Modded list, the game is changed by plugins or settings. Carbon plugins are used. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, on.
Which map does The Carnivorous Cactus run?
A procedural map, size 3,500 with seed 108205031, is used by The Carnivorous Cactus; the game generates it. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
Join
How do I join The Carnivorous Cactus?
Open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 in the console. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to open the game via Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166586,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp50- Max players Capacity is 50 slots.
ts8- Group limit Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default.
v2634- Protocol Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166586- Build The game build is 166586.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game.
$r?- Region code No region code has been set.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Monthly wipes apply, aligned with the force wipe.
Mods and access
^z- Modded Listed under Modded, with plugins or changed settings.
^y- Carbon Carbon provides the plugin framework here.
Region
NA- North America The server browser files it under North America.
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.