Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 42,725 players 11,646 servers 3,027 with someone on 89 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,951habitat unknownfirst seen 26 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 159.224.231.234:28015 checked 2d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#12,951
top 58%
Last wipe
3d 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
15k10k15k20k26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 58% 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

Population

How does nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #12,951, within the top 58% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 2 days 23 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

These are the tags nameserver publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 3 days ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

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

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: nameserver states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, nameserver was last seen 2 days 23 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 2 full days, 0 out of 48 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 26 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

A region is not published by nameserver. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 159.224.231.234:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 159.224.231.234:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.