Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,042habitat unknownfirst seen 19 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.238.242:28015 checked 9d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,042
top 59%
Last wipe
13d 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
15k10k15k20k19 Oct20 Oct22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct

Top 59% 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 #13,042, within the top 59% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 9 days 19 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): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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?

On Rust Population, nameserver is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 13 days ago.

Map and rules

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. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 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?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 9 days 19 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 19 October 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. Connect at 178.177.238.242:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Either enter client.connect 178.177.238.242:28015 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build This server runs game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.