The Carnivorous Cactus
NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 12m 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 33% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 20h. 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 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC11d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC28d 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
Server rules
What is the setup on The Carnivorous Cactus when it comes to rules and settings?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Carnivorous Cactus. The group cap is 8 players, the default for the game. survival is its mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. The plugins it runs number Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Which map is active on The Carnivorous Cactus?
Size 3,500, seed 108205031, generated by the game: the procedural map on The Carnivorous Cactus. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Server population
How full is The Carnivorous Cactus?
Right now, 0 players are on The Carnivorous Cactus, which has 50 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, with 3 players.
What is The Carnivorous Cactus's ranking?
For player hours in the last week, The Carnivorous Cactus ranks #7,311 overall and #1,136 in North America, placing it in the top 33% of ranked servers.
Lists and tags
What do The Carnivorous Cactus's tags indicate?
For the game's server browser, The Carnivorous Cactus publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game's default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166586 (Build): The game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^m (Monthly): The server wipes monthly, in line with Facepunch's force wipe; ^z (Modded): The Modded listing means plugins or settings have changed the game; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): In the server browser this one sits under North America. At the top of this page you see its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, which are in the tags too.
Where does The Carnivorous Cactus appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs and North American Rust servers: that is where you will find The Carnivorous Cactus among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up 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.
Server details
What is the uptime and reliability of The Carnivorous Cactus?
The Carnivorous Cactus is up and running as you read this. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 10 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, which is 100%. Its first appearance in Rust Zerg Life records is 13 September 2026.
How well does The Carnivorous Cactus perform?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 59 and never dropped below 46. The world held as many as 86,842 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,024 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust build does The Carnivorous Cactus use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 is what The Carnivorous Cactus runs, on Windows. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam will update your game to that protocol.
What location does The Carnivorous Cactus use?
With its NA tag, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself in North America. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 45.59.162.29:28080.
Wipe days
What can you expect on wipe day on The Carnivorous Cactus?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 1 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 0% of its recent wipes. In the cases where it did not hold, the fall below half came by day 1.
When does The Carnivorous Cactus wipe?
Once a month The Carnivorous Cactus wipes, along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it is running now dates from 11 days 4 hours ago. Monthly wipes are listed in its tags.
How to join
What steps do I take to join The Carnivorous Cactus?
Enter client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166586,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs166586
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^z
^y
Region
NA
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.