Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 14m ago
Southern Grid AU
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 50 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 24% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 8d 5h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 5hThu 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC26d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is Southern Grid AU online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at Southern Grid AU: online as you read this. About 17 hours ago is when it restarted, judging by its reported uptime. The last 7 full days put it at 168 of 168 hours up, 100% uptime. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Southern Grid AU run smoothly?
11 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 122,719. The memory ceiling was 3,730 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Southern Grid AU on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at Southern Grid AU. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is Southern Grid AU located?
Southern Grid AU gives Oceania as its location, with the OC tag. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 51.161.198.78:28070 is the address.
Server tags
What do the server tags on Southern Grid AU mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Southern Grid AU: gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: it's the game as Facepunch ships it; ^q (Premium): Join only with Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Southern Grid AU?
You will find Southern Grid AU on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Oceania Rust servers, live, Community servers, ranked live and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Southern Grid AU?
Southern Grid AU runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1883130744. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Southern Grid AU?
No gather rate appears in the name of Southern Grid AU. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. PvP is on, and so is raiding. The server browser lists it under Community. It runs plugins: Oxide. Vanilla is its own label: no changed rates, kits or rules: it's the game as Facepunch ships it. Join only with Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
How full is Southern Grid AU right now?
Out of 50 slots, 0 are taken on Southern Grid AU at this moment. The seven-day average sits at 0 players; the peak reached 4. Peak traffic in the last 48 hours landed at 07:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Where does Southern Grid AU sit in the rankings?
In Oceania it is #120, and #5,232 on seven-day player hours, in the top 24% of all ranked servers: Southern Grid AU.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Southern Grid AU?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Southern Grid AU, once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 26 days 7 hours ago is when its current world was made. Its tags carry a monthly 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 after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
Connect
How do I join Southern Grid AU?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you. Join only with Rust's premium status.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished 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.