Operation Birddog

In North America, Operation Birddog is #1,394; globally, #11,295 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 50% of ranked servers.

Right now, 0 players occupy the 50 slots on Operation Birddog. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Linux is what Operation Birddog runs. To join, your game must share the protocol; Steam takes care of updating it.

For the last 48 hours, average server fps was 58, with a minimum of 9. 73,061 entities at peak, counting buildings and deployables. Memory usage reached 2,719 MB at its highest. The lag players notice comes from low fps and rising entity counts.

With a NA tag, Operation Birddog places itself in North America. What Rust Server Now shows is a server's stated location, not where its machine is actually located. 89.28.237.37:28030 is its address.

Right now Operation Birddog shows as online. The last restart happened around 14 hours ago, according to uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. First seen by Rust Server Now on 13 September 2026.

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default applies: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634; cs167231 (Build): Game build: 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): No region set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): You won't fight other players - the world is what kills you; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Modded category: plugins or changed settings apply; NA (North America): North America is the browser listing for this server: that is the tag set Operation Birddog publishes for the game's server browser. The tags also carry its live players, its queue and its world creation time, and those appear at the top of this page.

Operation Birddog appears on the following Rust Server Now lists: Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers, ranked by population and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

The only wipe for Operation Birddog is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 8 days 5 hours have passed since its current world began. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

2 players on average marked the busiest point of its recent wipes. 23 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

For Operation Birddog, the map is procedural at size 3,500 with seed 1, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed reproduce it.

You will not find a gather rate in the name Operation Birddog. 8 players per group is the default and the limit here. This server runs pve, no combat between players. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

To connect, open Rust, press F1, and enter client.connect 89.28.237.37:28030. You can also click Launch Rust here to open the game via Steam and join.