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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,897habitat unknownfirst seen 3 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.174:28015 checked 24d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,897
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?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #13,897, within the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 24 days 21 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): You can join up to 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): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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?

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 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. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 3 hours ago.

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. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. 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. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw nameserver 24 days 21 hours ago, and it is offline now. 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?

No region is published by nameserver. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 178.177.239.174:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.239.174:28015. 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players You can join up to 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 The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.