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The Carnivorous Cactus

Online NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 9m ago

monthly wipes moddedcarbon

Players now

Live
0of 50
Full
0%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
1
Peak, 7 days
1

0% full

Mon 22:00Wed 20:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#11,328

top 51% · #1338 in NA

7-day average

0

peak 1

Last wipe

26d ago

monthly schedule

Next wipe

7d 21h

Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75122:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

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 best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 51% of all ranked servers, top 72% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

17.8 daysusual gapbetween real wipes
1wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes
0%crowd heldelse halves by day 1

Coming wipes

  • 7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  • 35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctMon 14 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC26d ago 0 – running 0
Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC43d 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

from the figures on this page

Server details

Is The Carnivorous Cactus online, and how reliable is it?

Players can join The Carnivorous Cactus: it is online. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 10 hours ago. It was online 100% of the last 7 full days, which is 168 of 168 hours. The first time Rust Dashboard recorded it was 13 September 2026.

Which version of Rust does The Carnivorous Cactus run?

The Carnivorous Cactus runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, and Windows is the system under it. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.

Where is The Carnivorous Cactus located?

In North America, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself with the NA tag. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. Connect to it at 45.59.162.29:28080.

Does The Carnivorous Cactus run smoothly?

Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 58. The world held as many as 79,011 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 2,513 MB. When fps is low and entities keep piling up, players notice it as lag.

Tags, lists

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include The Carnivorous Cactus?

The Rust Dashboard lists that carry The Carnivorous Cactus are: North American Rust servers and Modded Rust servers, live now. 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.

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): The game runs on standard Rust survival settings; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The game's standard network layer, RakNet, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe a month: it lands with the Facepunch force wipe; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it appears under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon handles the plugins on this server; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Live players

How busy is The Carnivorous Cactus?

The Carnivorous Cactus has 0 of its 50 slots filled at the moment. Its seven-day average is 0 players, and it reached 1 at the highest. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 21:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

How does The Carnivorous Cactus rank against other Rust servers?

The Carnivorous Cactus holds #11,328 for player hours across seven days, #1,338 in North America, in the top 51% of all ranked servers.

Wipe days

What does wipe day look like on The Carnivorous Cactus?

Its recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours passed before the crowd peaked. The crowd held above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. In the other cases it dropped below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on The Carnivorous Cactus?

The only wipe on The Carnivorous Cactus is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, shared with every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 3 hours ago. The tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on The Carnivorous Cactus?

The name of The Carnivorous Cactus gives no gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid their bases. Modded is its category in the browser, because plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Carbon. The anti-cheat from Valve, VAC, is active.

Which map does The Carnivorous Cactus run?

The game generates the procedural map on The Carnivorous Cactus, size 3,500 with seed 108205031. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.

Connect

How do I join The Carnivorous Cactus?

The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game runs on standard Rust survival settings.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The game's standard network layer, RakNet, carries this server.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Expect one wipe a month: it lands with the Facepunch force wipe.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it appears under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon handles the plugins on this server.

Region

NA
North America North America is where the server browser puts it.

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.