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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,490habitat unknownfirst seen 21 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.68:28015 checked 36d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,490
top 67%
Last wipe
38d 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
15k10k15k20k21 Sep22 Sep24 Sep25 Sep27 Sep28 Sep

Top 67% 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?

Over the past week it ranks #15,490 for player hours, which puts nameserver in the top 67% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 36 days 8 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): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): The game build is 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?

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?

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. 38 days 20 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?

Nothing in nameserver's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows is what nameserver uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw nameserver 36 days 8 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 21 September 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 178.177.237.68:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Either enter client.connect 178.177.237.68:28015 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?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build The game build is 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.