Vanilla Rust servers

A published schedule is a forecast, not a promise. A server saying monthly may still wipe weekly on its own rhythm, and every server wipes at the force wipe whatever it publishes. Sort by next wipe to see who is due soon, then read last wipe to judge how fresh the map is now.

Then look at the population history rather than the current count. A vanilla server that is busy on wipe day and drained by the following weekend is a short let; one that holds its players into the second week is where a base is worth building. The rank column weights players hour by hour over seven days, so it separates the two.

Vanilla also means the default team limit of 8 unless the server says otherwise. Read the group column before you commit to a wipe.

Vanilla is the slow version of Rust: 1x gather, no kits, no teleports. That pace suits players who want a wipe to last, and it punishes anyone who cannot play the first two days. Use the region column as well as the count: a busy European server is lively in the European evening and quiet at yours.

If you want a slightly faster pace, compare with 1.5x servers or 2x servers. For the strongest on this list by seven-day population, see the top vanilla servers, and for the full picture of everything wiping soon, the wipe times schedule.