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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,469habitat unknownfirst seen 16 Oct 2026

test plugins

Offline 161.248.62.159:28015 checked 11d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 99
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,469
top 62%
Last wipe
26d 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
15k10k15k20k16 Oct17 Oct19 Oct20 Oct22 Oct23 Oct

Top 62% 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 test plugins rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, test plugins places at #13,469, within the top 62% of ranked servers.

How busy is test plugins?

At this count test plugins is offline, with its last sighting 11 days 20 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on test plugins mean?

These are the tags test plugins publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp99 (Max players): You can join up to 99 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; cs166494 (Build): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; ^x (Unknown flag): No published explanation exists for this flag. 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 plugins?

test plugins appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on test plugins?

The record holds too few of test plugins's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 26 days 9 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

What are the rules and settings on test plugins?

No gather rate appears in the name of test plugins. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

About the server

Which version of Rust does test plugins run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows for test plugins. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is test plugins online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw test plugins 11 days 20 hours ago, and it is offline now. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 16 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is test plugins located?

Nothing published by test plugins states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 161.248.62.159:28015.

How to join

How do I join test plugins?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 161.248.62.159:28015. 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 mp99,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,^x,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp99
Max players You can join up to 99 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.
cs166494
Build This server runs game build 166494.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

Other

^x
Unknown flag No published explanation exists for this flag.

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.