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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,330habitat unknownfirst seen 29 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.176:28015 checked 24d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 15
= 1 player
13% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,330
top 54%
Last wipe
25d 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
15k10k15k20k29 Sep1 Oct3 Oct6 Oct8 Oct10 Oct

Top 54% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 35 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 06:22 UTC25d ago 2 – 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 nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #12,330 for player hours, which puts nameserver in the top 54% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 24 days 11 hours ago.

Lists and 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): 15 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on nameserver?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. 35 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

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. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 22 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does nameserver run?

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

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. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. 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?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what nameserver uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 24 days 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 29 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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 178.177.237.176:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Either enter client.connect 178.177.237.176:28015 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 mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players 15 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build This server runs game build 166494.
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.