Online NA 74.136.196.241:28023 checked 6m ago
The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 100 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 15% of all ranked servers, top 29% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 8d 22h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 22hThu 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 8, 1 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:05 UTC FW26d ago | 8 | – | running | 1 |
| Tue 15 Sep, 19:43 UTC42d ago | 5 | held half | 15.9 days | 2 |
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 The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]: online as you read this. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 5 days ago. The last 7 full days put it at 162 of 168 hours up, 96% uptime. The first record Rust Player Stats has of it is 13 September 2026.
Does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] run smoothly?
108 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 93. Its entity count reached 87,855: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use reached 4,259 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps paired with an entity count on the rise.
Which Rust version is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows: that is the setup at The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] located?
The NA tag on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] puts it in North America. Where the machine physically stands is not looked up by Rust Player Stats; it shows only what the server states. You will find it at 74.136.196.241:28023.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] mean?
gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp100 (Max players): It holds 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe comes once a month, with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^r (Roleplay): It's a roleplay server; ^p (PvE): Players don't fight each other here; the world does the killing; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America are the tags The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] are: Modded Rust servers, live, Best Rust PvE servers (2026), Rust roleplay servers, live and North America Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
The procedural map on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] is size 3,500, generated by the game from seed 1337. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page. Read the map name off the board: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. roleplay rules, towns and jobs: that is the roleplay game mode. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Population
How full is The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] right now?
2 of 100 slots are filled on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] right now. The seven-day average sits at 1 players; the peak reached 5. Peak traffic in the last 48 hours landed at 19:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Where does The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] sit in the rankings?
The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] sits at #3,307 for player hours in the past seven days — #547 in North America and inside the top 15% of every ranked server.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
With the force wipe, The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded] wipes once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 26 days 2 hours ago is when its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 6 players on average. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
How to join
How do I join The Watering Hole RP/PVE [Modded]?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 74.136.196.241:28023. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in. You will find the website at https://discord.com/invite/dwYuaCmyxt.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^r,NA,^p,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmvanilla
mp100
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Gameplay
^r
^p
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.