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SoftNet

Online EU 85.49.251.3:28015 checked 13m ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Players now

Live
0of 100
Full
0%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
1
Peak, 7 days
1

0% full

Mon 05:00Wed 03:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#8,282

top 37% · #2126 in EU

7-day average

0

peak 1

Last wipe

26d ago

monthly schedule

Next wipe

8d 14h

Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75105:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

025507510005:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

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 7 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k7 Oct11 Oct15 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 37% of all ranked servers, top 73% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The force wipe

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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

About

Is SoftNet online, and how reliable is it?

Right now SoftNet is running. About 2 days 7 hours ago it restarted, judging by the uptime figure it gives. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online: 100%. The first time Rust Dashboard recorded it was 7 October 2026.

Which version of Rust does SoftNet run?

SoftNet runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, and Linux is the system under it. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.

Where is SoftNet located?

The EU tag is how SoftNet places itself in Europe. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. 85.49.251.3:28015 is where it lives.

Does SoftNet run smoothly?

The last 48 hours gave an average of 68 server fps, and it never went under 23. At its highest the count reached 114,630 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest. It drew as much as 3,773 MB of memory at peak. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Tags, lists

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include SoftNet?

The Rust Dashboard lists that carry SoftNet are: Best Rust community servers, Europe's Rust servers, live, Rust tutorial servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under these filters when you browse the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Who runs SoftNet?

SoftNet and 1 other server we track both publish a sftn.eu hostname, which points to the same operator in all likelihood.

What do the server tags on SoftNet mean?

The browser in the game reads gmrust (Game mode): The game runs on standard Rust survival settings; mp100 (Max players): 100 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, together with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for players who are new; EU (Europe): Europe is where the server browser puts it from SoftNet as its tags. At the top of this page you'll find the current players, the queue and the world's creation time, which the tags carry too.

Population

How busy is SoftNet?

As things stand, 0 players are on SoftNet, which holds 100 slots. Over seven days the mean is 0 players and the peak is 1. Across the last 48 hours, the peak came at 00:00 UTC with an average of 1 players.

How does SoftNet rank against other Rust servers?

SoftNet holds #8,282 for player hours across seven days, #2,126 in Europe, in the top 37% of all ranked servers.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on SoftNet?

An estimate from the force wipe gives SoftNet's next wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, shared with every Rust server. The world now in play was generated 26 days 2 hours ago. Wipes are listed as monthly in its tags.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on SoftNet?

The name of SoftNet gives no gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. survival is the mode here, gather, build and raid: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid their bases. The server browser lists it under Community. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules. The anti-cheat from Valve, VAC, is active.

Which map does SoftNet run?

SoftNet runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 367222608, made by the game. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.

How to join

How do I join SoftNet?

The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 85.49.251.3:28015 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,^t,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game runs on standard Rust survival settings.
mp100
Max players 100 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, together with the force wipe from Facepunch.

Difficulty

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

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available here for players who are new.

Region

EU
Europe Europe 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.