Southern Grid AU
OC 51.161.198.78:28070 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
Top 27% of all ranked servers, top 63% in OC. 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
- 0.4 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 2 players, last three wipes
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 1, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC 11d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTCFW 12d ago | 2 | – | 0.4 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 Southern Grid AU?
Southern Grid AU is holding 0 of its 50 slots at the moment. The past seven days show 0 players on average and 2 at peak. In the last 48 hours, 02:00 UTC drew the highest average: 0 players.
How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?
For player hours in the last seven days, Southern Grid AU holds rank #6,148 worldwide, #140 in Oceania, and is in the top 27% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Southern Grid AU?
The busiest points of its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaks.
What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?
The only wipe Southern Grid AU runs is the monthly force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the force wipe that clears every Rust server. The map has been running for 11 days 18 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Server
Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?
Southern Grid AU is online at the moment. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 3 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 144 of 168 hours, or 86% of the time. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Performance of Southern Grid AU: does it run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, average server fps was 52, and it never dropped below 5. The highest entity count was 118,261, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use reached 3,725 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which version of Rust does Southern Grid AU run?
On Southern Grid AU, the Rust version is network protocol 2634 and build 167781 and the OS is Linux. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is Southern Grid AU located?
With its OC tag, Southern Grid AU lists itself in Oceania. When Is Wipe does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You can reach it at 51.161.198.78:28070.
Lists and tags
Which When Is Wipe lists include Southern Grid AU? And filters?
These When Is Wipe lists include Southern Grid AU: Oceania Rust servers, Community Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Premium ^q and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on Southern Grid AU mean?
These are the tags Southern Grid AU publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 players; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781; ptrak (Networking): This server uses RakNet, the game's usual network layer; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes apply, aligned with the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla: the stock game, with no changed rates, kits or rules; ^q (Premium): Entry requires Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): The server browser files it under Oceania. The tags also hold its population now, its queue and when its world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Rules, map
What rules does Southern Grid AU enforce? And settings?
No gather rate appears in Southern Grid AU's name. With the default limit, groups are limited to 8 players. standard survival: gathering, building, raiding That is the game mode: survival. PvP and raiding are enabled. Listed under Community, it is a community server. Oxide plugins are used. Vanilla is in the name: vanilla: the stock game, with no changed rates, kits or rules. Entry requires Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does Southern Grid AU run?
A procedural map, size 4,500 with seed 1883130744, is used by Southern Grid AU; the game generates it. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
Join
How do I join Southern Grid AU?
Press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 in the console. You can also use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Entry requires Rust's premium status.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs167781,^q,ts8,^o
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp50- Max players The server holds 50 players.
ts8- Group limit Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default.
v2634- Protocol The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining.
cs167781- Build Build 167781.
ptrak- Networking This server uses RakNet, the game's usual network layer.
$r?- Region code The server has no region code.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Monthly wipes apply, aligned with the force wipe.
Difficulty
^v- Vanilla Vanilla: the stock game, with no changed rates, kits or rules.
Mods and access
^q- Premium Entry requires Rust's premium status.
^o- Oxide The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod).
Region
OC- Oceania The server browser files it under Oceania.
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.