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

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.88:28015 checked 36d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,490
top 67%
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
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?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 36 days 13 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): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs164530 (Build): This server runs game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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?

The record holds too few of nameserver's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 39 days 1 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does nameserver run?

The map on nameserver is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

Nothing in nameserver's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat off: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, nameserver was last seen 36 days 13 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 21 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. Connect at 178.177.237.88:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.237.88:28015. 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 The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs164530
Build This server runs game build 164530.
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.