Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 63,000 players 11,748 servers 3,404 with someone on 200 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,325habitat unknownfirst seen 3 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.238.216:28015 checked 26d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 15
= 1 player
13% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,325
top 54%
Last wipe
27d 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 54% 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 #12,325, within the top 54% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 26 days 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; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

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. 27 days 5 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

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

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

No gather rate appears in the name of nameserver. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 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 26 days 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 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. 178.177.238.216:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.177.238.216:28015; 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 The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.