Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 43,996 players 11,654 servers 2,908 with someone on 99 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,234habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.238.247:28015 checked 39d ago

Measurements

Players now
3/ 15
= 1 player
20% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#11,234
no region published
Last wipe
41d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep23 Sep24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep
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?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #11,234, within the top – of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 39 days 20 hours ago.

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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp15 (Max players): You can join up to 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): This server runs game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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?

These Rust Population lists include nameserver: 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 41 days 2 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

nameserver uses a map the game generates: procedural.

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. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows for nameserver. 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 39 days 20 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 20 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is nameserver located?

Nothing published by nameserver states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 178.177.238.247:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.238.247:28015. 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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp15
Max players You can join up to 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build This server runs game build 164530.
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.