The West Coast
Online NA 162.220.160.28:28080 checked 13m 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 15% of all ranked servers, top 29% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 4players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 31 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC FW28d ago |
4 | – | running | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
On The West Coast, which rules and settings apply?
No gather rate appears in the name The West Coast. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. Filed under survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Filed under plugins: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is in use on The West Coast?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of The West Coast has size 3,500 and seed 1337. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. The name of the map is Death Island.
Lists and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is The West Coast filed under?
These lists on Rust Server Index take The West Coast: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style and North American Rust servers. Filed under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What is meant by the tags on The West Coast?
These are the tags The West Coast publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp160 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 160; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide, also known as uMod, provides the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): This one is Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): The browser files it under North America. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
What happens on wipe day at The West Coast?
Its recent wipes averaged 4 players at peak. The latest wipe peaked 31 hours in.
Which wipe timetable does The West Coast follow?
The only wipe on The West Coast is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. 28 days is when its current world was made. Its tags state a wipe schedule of once a month.
Player counts
Where does The West Coast sit in the rankings?
On seven-day player hours, The West Coast takes #3,314 overall and #546 in North America, within the top 15% of ranked servers.
How many players are on The West Coast at the moment?
The live count for The West Coast stands at 1 players, out of 160 slots. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 1 players and a peak of 4. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 07:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Server details
What version does The West Coast use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Windows, is what The West Coast runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the uptime and current status of The West Coast?
The server is live at this moment: The West Coast. Its reported uptime gives the last restart as roughly 6 hours ago. It was up 166 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 13 September 2026.
Is the performance on The West Coast good?
The last 48 hours give an average of 93 server fps and a floor of 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 72,848 entities. The peak memory figure stood at 5,139 MB. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
What is the location of The West Coast?
Filed under North America by its own listing, The West Coast carries the NA tag. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 162.220.160.28:28080.
Connecting
What steps lead onto The West Coast?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 162.220.160.28:28080. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp160,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp160
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.