Southern Grid AU
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 4m 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 23% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 0.4 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 2players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 20hThu 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 1, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2 OCT 2026Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC26d ago |
1 | – | running | 0 |
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 19:13 UTC FW27d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings and rules does Southern Grid AU run?
The name of Southern Grid AU does not state a gather rate. 8 players per group is the default limit. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The server browser lists it under Community; it is a community server. Oxide plugins are run on it. Its own label is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game Facepunch ships. Entry is limited to players with Rust's premium status. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Which map is in use on Southern Grid AU?
Size 4,500, seed 1883130744: the game generates the procedural map on Southern Grid AU. You can view the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is Southern Grid AU filed under?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Southern Grid AU: Oceania servers, filed A to Z, Community Rust servers, indexed and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under the following 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.
How should you read the tags listed for Southern Grid AU?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Southern Grid AU gives gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp50 (Max players): Player cap: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game Facepunch ships; ^q (Premium): Entry is limited to players with Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; OC (Oceania): The browser files it under Oceania. See also the top of this page, where the tags carry the current players, the queue and the time the world was made.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on Southern Grid AU?
Its recent wipes averaged 2 players at peak. The latest wipe peaked 35 hours in.
When does Southern Grid AU wipe?
With the force wipe, Southern Grid AU wipes once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, as the force wipe that reaches every Rust server. 26 days 16 hours is when its current world was made. Its tags state a wipe schedule of once a month.
Players and ranking
What position does Southern Grid AU hold among Rust servers?
Filed under rankings: #5,210 for Southern Grid AU on seven-day player hours, #121 in Oceania, top 23% overall.
How many players are on Southern Grid AU at the moment?
Southern Grid AU is currently showing 0 players on 50 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players; the peak reached 4. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 07:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server details
What version does Southern Grid AU use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on Southern Grid AU. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
How reliable is Southern Grid AU, and is it online now?
The server is live at this moment: Southern Grid AU. About 2 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. It was up 168 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
Is the performance on Southern Grid AU good?
Server fps held at 11 on average across the last 48 hours, never dropping below 5. The entity count reached 122,719, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The peak memory figure stood at 3,730 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
Which region is Southern Grid AU in?
Southern Grid AU gives Oceania as its location and the tag OC. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 51.161.198.78:28070.
Joining the server
What is the way onto Southern Grid AU?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Entry is limited to players with 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
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^q
^o
Region
OC
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.