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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,980habitat unknownfirst seen 6 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.236:28015 checked 21d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,980
top 71%
Last wipe
26d 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
15k10k15k20k6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct

Top 71% 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?

By player hours over the last seven days, nameserver places at #15,980, within the top 71% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 21 days 23 hours ago.

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): 15 slots are available; 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): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 schedule

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver'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. 26 days 4 hours ago the current world was made.

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?

No gather rate appears in the name of nameserver. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows for nameserver. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, nameserver was last seen 21 days 23 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 6 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is nameserver located?

A region is not published by nameserver. 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 178.177.237.236:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.177.237.236:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for 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 15 slots are available.
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 This server runs game build 166494.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.