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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,917habitat unknownfirst seen 3 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.238.148:28015 checked 25d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,917
top 61%
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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct4 Oct6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 Oct

Top 61% 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 #13,917, within the top 61% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 25 days 3 hours ago.

Lists and 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; 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. 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. 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 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. Counted from 26 days 13 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

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. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. 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 25 days 3 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 3 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

A region is not published by nameserver. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 178.177.238.148:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.177.238.148:28015; 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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
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.