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Southern Grid AU
Online OC 51.161.198.78:28070 checked 14m ago
- Last week
- No. 12,714
- Peak
- No. 4,369
- Days on chart
- 38
Rank
- 22 Sep4,838
- 29 Sep8,922
- 6 Oct9,511
- 13 Oct6,148
- 20 Oct12,714
- now5,369
Top 24% of all ranked servers, top 59% in OC. 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 8d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 21hThu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 05:39 UTC25d 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
- 1 Rustafied.com - AU Long 9/ 100
- 2 [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 5/ 250
- 3 [AU] Facepunch 1 5/ 250
- 4 ClearRust - Monthly/PVE[AUS] For NOOBS 0/ 100
- 5 AUSSIE MAFIA.AU | ORIGINAL | VANILLA PVP | MONTHLY |50% UPKEEP 3/ 500
- 6 [NZ] Vanilla Rust 1 0/ 75
Quick answers
Wipe times
What should you expect on Southern Grid AU when wipe day comes?
The busiest moments of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 35 hours in.
When does Southern Grid AU wipe?
Once a month, with the force wipe, Southern Grid AU wipes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe, and every other Rust server wipes then too. The world it is running now dates from 25 days 16 hours. Its tags list wipes once a month.
Tags
Where does Southern Grid AU appear in Rust Server Rank lists and filters?
These Rust Server Rank lists feature Southern Grid AU: Oceania servers, ranked live, Rust community servers, charted and The vanilla chart. Filter the server list by 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 and it shows up.
What do Southern Grid AU's tags tell you?
These are the tags Southern Grid AU puts out, and the game's server browser reads them: 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): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer: RakNet; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, plus Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules all unchanged; ^q (Premium): Joining requires premium status on Rust; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), the plugin framework, is running here; OC (Oceania): Oceania is where the browser lists it. 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 Southern Grid AU play?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1883130744 is what Southern Grid AU runs, generated by the game. Same size and seed, same map, which RustMaps can show you from this page.
What rules apply on Southern Grid AU, and what settings does it use?
You will not find a gather rate in Southern Grid AU's name. 8 players is the group limit, the default in the game. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is where you will find it in the server browser; it is a community server. The plugins it runs are Oxide. Vanilla is its own label: as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules all unchanged. Joining requires premium status on Rust. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Server info
Which Rust build is Southern Grid AU running?
On Linux, Southern Grid AU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
How dependable is Southern Grid AU, and is it online?
Right now Southern Grid AU is up and taking players. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days it stayed up for 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. It came to Rust Server Rank on 13 September 2026 for the first time.
Is Southern Grid AU smooth to play on?
Never below 5, it averaged 10 server fps across the last 48 hours. The world carried as many as 122,719 entities, buildings and deployables among them. At its highest, memory use hit 3,734 MB. Lag, to players, is those two things together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Where in the world is Southern Grid AU based?
In Oceania, Southern Grid AU lists itself with its OC tag. Rust Server Rank does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 51.161.198.78:28070 is its address.
Population
What kind of population does Southern Grid AU carry?
The live picture at Southern Grid AU: 0 players, 50 slots. It peaked at 4 players in the last seven days, averaging 0. Its busiest hour in the last 48 hours was 07:00 UTC, when it averaged 1 players.
What position does Southern Grid AU hold among Rust servers?
Seven days of player hours give Southern Grid AU #5,253 overall, the top 24% of ranked servers, and #123 in Oceania.
Join details
What is the way to join Southern Grid AU?
You can type client.connect 51.161.198.78:28070 into the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect. Joining requires premium status on Rust.