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The Carnivorous Cactus
Online NA 45.59.162.29:28080 checked 10m ago
- Last week
- No. 11,114
- Peak
- No. 7,112
- Days on chart
- 39
Rank
- 23 Sep15,756
- 30 Sep13,037
- 7 Oct16,636
- 14 Oct7,197
- 21 Oct11,114
- now11,319
Top 51% of all ranked servers, top 72% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
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.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 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 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 18:10 UTC26d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 22:12 UTC43d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 17.8 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.
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Quick answers
Wipe days
What happens on wipe day at The Carnivorous Cactus?
Averaged over its recent wipes, the crowd reached 1 at the peak. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that is what happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If the crowd did not hold, it was under half by day 1.
When does The Carnivorous Cactus wipe?
The only wipe on The Carnivorous Cactus is the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe, and every other Rust server wipes then too. 26 days 2 hours is how long the current world has been up. Its tags list wipes once a month.
Tags
Where does The Carnivorous Cactus appear in Rust Server Rank lists and filters?
These Rust Server Rank lists feature The Carnivorous Cactus: Modded Rust server rankings and Best US Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do The Carnivorous Cactus's tags tell you?
Here are the tags The Carnivorous Cactus publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams hold at most 8, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game has to match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It runs on RakNet, Rust's usual network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Expect a wipe each month, and Facepunch's force wipe with it; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, and the browser files it under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework in use: Carbon; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. The tags also hold the players on now, the queue and the world's creation time, all displayed at the top of this page.
Map and rules
On what map does The Carnivorous Cactus play?
The map on The Carnivorous Cactus is procedural, size 3,500, seed 108205031, generated by the game. The map is the same from the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What rules apply on The Carnivorous Cactus, and what settings does it use?
The name of The Carnivorous Cactus does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game, built on gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. In the server browser it sits under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Plugins running here: Carbon. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is switched on.
Server details
Which Rust build is The Carnivorous Cactus running?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows, and that is The Carnivorous Cactus. Steam keeps it updated, but your game has to be on the same protocol to join.
How reliable is The Carnivorous Cactus, and is it online now?
The Carnivorous Cactus is live as you read this. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time across the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first sighting here was on 13 September 2026, logged by Rust Server Rank.
What is performance like on The Carnivorous Cactus?
Never below 58, it averaged 60 server fps across the last 48 hours. Up to 79,011 entities sat in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. It climbed to 2,513 MB of memory at most. Players call it lag: fps falling and entities piling up.
In which location is The Carnivorous Cactus hosted?
In North America, The Carnivorous Cactus lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Server Rank does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 45.59.162.29:28080 is its address.
Player count
Is The Carnivorous Cactus a busy server?
Of 50 slots on The Carnivorous Cactus, 0 are taken at the moment. Averaging 0 players over the last week, it hit a high of 1. At 21:00 UTC it saw its busiest spell of the last 48 hours, averaging 1 players.
Where does The Carnivorous Cactus place in the rankings?
In North America the player-hours chart puts The Carnivorous Cactus at #1,334; across all ranked servers that is #11,319 and the top 51% over the last seven days.
Connect
How do you get into The Carnivorous Cactus?
You can type client.connect 45.59.162.29:28080 into the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.