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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,805habitat unknownfirst seen 14 Oct 2026

dron test

Online 176.9.18.206:20083 checked 8m ago

vanillamoddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#12,805
top 58%
Last wipe
25d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75114:0019:0023:0002:0006:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040014:0019:0023:0002:0006:0010:00

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, measured since 14 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k14 Oct17 Oct20 Oct23 Oct26 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

Player counts

How does dron test rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, dron test places at #12,805, within the top 58% of ranked servers.

How busy is dron test?

dron test holds 0 players at the moment, out of 5 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on dron test mean?

What the game's server browser reads from dron test is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp5 (Max players): You can join up to 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 dron test?

These Rust Population lists include dron test: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on dron test?

Too few wipes are on record for dron test 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. Counted from 25 days 19 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does dron test run?

dron test uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 1,000 with seed 1. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on dron test?

Nothing in dron test's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Oxide running as plugins. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does dron test run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for dron test. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does dron test run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 237 server fps, with 210 as the lowest. The entity count reached 4,491: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 1,086 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is dron test online, and how reliable is it?

You will find dron test online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 hours ago. It was up 5% of the time over the last 7 full days, 9 out of 168 hours. On 14 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is dron test located?

Nothing published by dron test states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 176.9.18.206:20083 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join dron test?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 176.9.18.206:20083. 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp5
Max players You can join up to 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.