Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,959habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

giga

Offline 178.134.87.209:28015 checked 26d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 5
= 1 player
20% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,959
top 67%
Last wipe
32d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep26 Sep29 Sep2 Oct5 Oct8 Oct

Top 67% 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+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
Fri 25 Sep, 05:29 UTC32d ago 1 – running 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

Player counts

How does giga rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,959 for player hours, which puts giga in the top 67% of all ranked servers.

How busy is giga?

At this count giga is offline, with its last sighting 26 days 13 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on giga mean?

What the game's server browser reads from giga is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs163794 (Build): The game build is 163794; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include giga?

giga 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 notes

What does wipe day look like on giga?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on giga?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of giga's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 32 days 15 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does giga run?

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

What are the rules and settings on giga?

Nothing in giga's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does giga run?

On Windows, giga runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is giga online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw giga 26 days 13 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is giga located?

A region is not published by giga. 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 178.134.87.209:28015.

How to join

How do I join giga?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.134.87.209:28015. 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp5
Max players The server has 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs163794
Build The game build is 163794.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^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.