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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,460habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.234:28015 checked 37d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,460
top 68%
Last wipe
39d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep23 Sep24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep

Top 68% 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

Population

How does nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, nameserver places at #15,460, within the top 68% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 37 days 20 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags nameserver publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): You can join up to 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): This server runs game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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?

On Rust Population, nameserver is filed under these lists: 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 is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver's wipes are on record. 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 39 days 19 hours ago.

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?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: nameserver states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 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 37 days 20 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 20 September 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 178.177.237.234:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.237.234:28015. 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?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players You can join up to 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build This server runs game build 164530.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.