Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,278habitat unknownfirst seen 26 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.252:28015 checked 32d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 15
= 1 player
13% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,278
top 53%
Last wipe
32d 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
15k10k15k20k26 Sep27 Sep29 Sep30 Sep2 Oct3 Oct

Top 53% 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 #12,278, within the top 53% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 32 days 11 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

What the game's server browser reads from nameserver is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): You can join up to 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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?

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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

The record holds too few of nameserver's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 32 days 18 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

nameserver uses a map the game generates: procedural.

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. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. 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 32 days 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 26 September 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 178.177.237.252:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.237.252:28015. 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,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players You can join up to 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.