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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,088habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Oct 2026

Home hosting

Offline 169.0.231.8:28015 checked 12d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 1
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,088
top 70%
Last wipe
25d 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
15k10k15k20k13 Oct15 Oct17 Oct18 Oct20 Oct22 Oct

Top 70% 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 Home hosting rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Home hosting places at #15,088, within the top 70% of ranked servers.

How busy is Home hosting?

At this count Home hosting is offline, with its last sighting 12 days 2 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Home hosting mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Home hosting is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Home hosting?

Home hosting appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Home hosting?

Too few wipes are on record for Home hosting 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. 25 days 11 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Home hosting run?

The map on Home hosting is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Home hosting?

Nothing in Home hosting's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Home hosting run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what Home hosting uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Home hosting online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw Home hosting 12 days 2 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. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 October 2026.

Where is Home hosting located?

No region is published by Home hosting. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 169.0.231.8:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Home hosting?

Either enter client.connect 169.0.231.8:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp1
Max players The server has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.