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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,547habitat unknownfirst seen 29 Sep 2026

Test

Offline 159.224.181.98:28015 checked 29d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 2
= 1 player
50% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,547
top 61%
Last wipe
30d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k29 Sep30 Sep2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct

Top 61% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Test rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Test places at #14,547, within the top 61% of ranked servers.

How busy is Test?

At this count Test is offline, with its last sighting 29 days 23 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Test mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Test is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp2 (Max players): The server has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166142 (Build): Game build: 166142; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Test?

These Rust Population lists include Test: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Test?

Too few wipes are on record for Test to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 30 days 1 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Test run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Test.

What are the rules and settings on Test?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Test states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Test run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166142 on Windows for Test. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Test online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Test was last seen 29 days 23 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 29 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Test located?

Nothing published by Test states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 159.224.181.98:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Test?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 159.224.181.98:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166142,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp2
Max players The server has 2 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166142
Build Game build: 166142.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.