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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,553habitat unknownfirst seen 9 Oct 2026

Test server

Offline 176.50.82.251:28015 checked 20d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 500
= 1 player
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,553
top 61%
Last wipe
20d 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
15k10k15k20k9 Oct10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct15 Oct16 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 server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Test server places at #13,553, within the top 61% of ranked servers.

How busy is Test server?

We have no live count for Test server right now. It was last seen 20 days 7 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Test server mean?

These are the tags Test server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): You can join up to 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): This server runs game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 server?

Test server 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on Test server?

Too few wipes are on record for Test server to show its 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 20 days 10 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Test server run?

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

What are the rules and settings on Test server?

Nothing in Test server's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Test server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows for Test server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Test server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Test server was last seen 20 days 7 hours ago. 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 9 October 2026.

Where is Test server located?

Nothing published by Test server states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 176.50.82.251:28015.

How to join

How do I join Test server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 176.50.82.251:28015; 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp500
Max players You can join up to 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167398
Build This server runs game build 167398.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.