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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,921habitat unknownfirst seen 2 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.129:28015 checked 25d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,921
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
15k10k15k20k2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 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

Player counts

How does nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #15,921, within the top 70% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 25 days 3 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

These are the tags nameserver publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 nameserver?

These Rust Population lists include nameserver: 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 nameserver?

Too few wipes are on record for nameserver 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 16 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

The map on nameserver is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

Nothing in nameserver's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. 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 nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, nameserver was last seen 25 days 3 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 2 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

A region is not published by nameserver. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 178.177.237.129:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.237.129:28015. 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 mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.