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Observing 82,249 players 11,849 servers 3,916 with someone on 168 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,918habitat unknownfirst seen 9 Oct 2026

Birdman

Offline 172.56.93.8:28015 checked 11d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 10
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,918
top 60%
Last wipe
13d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k9 Oct12 Oct15 Oct17 Oct20 Oct23 Oct

Top 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

4.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 14 OctFri 9 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 14 Oct, 11:18 UTC13d ago 1 – running 1
Fri 9 Oct, 12:47 UTC18d ago 1 held half 4.9 days 0

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 Birdman rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Birdman places at #12,918, within the top 60% of ranked servers.

How busy is Birdman?

At this count Birdman is offline, with its last sighting 11 days 13 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Birdman mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Birdman publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 Birdman?

Birdman 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 2 weeks.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Birdman?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on Birdman?

The record holds too few of Birdman's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 13 days 5 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Birdman run?

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

What are the rules and settings on Birdman?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Birdman states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Birdman run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows for Birdman. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Birdman online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Birdman was last seen 11 days 13 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 9 October 2026.

Where is Birdman located?

Nothing published by Birdman states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 172.56.93.8:28015.

How to join

How do I join Birdman?

Either enter client.connect 172.56.93.8:28015 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167398
Build Game build: 167398.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.