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Southern Grid AU

Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 11m ago

monthly wipes vanillaoxidepremium

Players now

Live
0of 50
Full
0%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
1
Peak, 7 days
4

0% full

Mon 03:00Wed 01:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#5,265

top 24% · #121 in OC

7-day average

0

peak 4

Last wipe

25d ago

monthly schedule

Next wipe

8d 16h

Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75103:0012:0021:0007:0016:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608003:0012:0021:0007:0016:0001:00

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 24% of all ranked servers, top 58% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.4 daysusual gapbetween real wipes
2wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  • 8d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  • 36d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctThu 1 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 35 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC25d ago 1 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTC FW26d 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

from the figures on this page

Server

Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?

Right now Southern Grid AU is running. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 6 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online: 100%. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

Which version of Rust does Southern Grid AU run?

On Linux, Southern Grid AU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.

Where is Southern Grid AU located?

In Oceania, Southern Grid AU lists itself with the OC tag. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. Connect to it at 51.161.198.78:28070.

Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?

Server fps averaged 10 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 5. The world held as many as 122,719 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. It drew as much as 3,734 MB of memory at peak. When fps is low and entities keep piling up, players notice it as lag.

Lists

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include Southern Grid AU?

These Rust Dashboard lists include Southern Grid AU: Best Rust community servers, Rust servers in Oceania and Vanilla Rust servers. You'll find it under these filters 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.

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): This is Rust as it comes, with survival rules unchanged; mp50 (Max players): It holds 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game's own limit of 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): The game's standard network layer, RakNet, carries this server; $r? (Region code): This server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the day, and this server wipes once a month; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules; ^q (Premium): Joining takes Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): Oceania is where the server browser puts it. Current players, queue length and world creation time sit in the tags as well, and appear at the top of this page.

Population

How busy is Southern Grid AU?

0 players are playing on Southern Grid AU right now, out of 50 slots. Over seven days the mean is 0 players and the peak is 4. It was busiest at 07:00 UTC over the last 48 hours, when it averaged 1 players.

How does Southern Grid AU rank against other Rust servers?

Southern Grid AU holds #5,265 for player hours across seven days, #121 in Oceania, in the top 24% of all ranked servers.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Southern Grid AU?

The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 2 players. 35 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?

Once a month Southern Grid AU wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as it is for every Rust server. 25 days 20 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is set out in its tags.

Settings

What are the rules and settings on Southern Grid AU?

The name of Southern Grid AU gives no gather rate. 8 players per group is the game's default, and that is the cap here. survival is the mode here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. It appears in the Community section of the server browser. The plugin count is Oxide. Vanilla is the label it uses: facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules. Joining takes Rust's premium status. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.

Which map does Southern Grid AU run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1883130744 is what Southern Grid AU runs, generated by the game. Because size and seed fix the map, a RustMaps view is available from this page.

Connect

How do I join Southern Grid AU?

The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you. Joining takes Rust's premium status.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,^q,ts8,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode This is Rust as it comes, with survival rules unchanged.
mp50
Max players It holds 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game's own limit of 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in.
cs168909
Build Build 168909 is what it runs.
ptrak
Networking The game's standard network layer, RakNet, carries this server.
$r?
Region code This server sets no region code.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Facepunch's force wipe sets the day, and this server wipes once a month.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining takes Rust's premium status.
^o
Oxide The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod).

Region

OC
Oceania Oceania 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.