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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,709habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.194:28015 checked 34d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,709
top 71%
Last wipe
39d 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
15k10k15k20k23 Sep25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct

Top 71% 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

Player counts

How does nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, nameserver places at #15,709, within the top 71% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 34 days 11 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): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs164530 (Build): Game build: 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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?

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. 39 days 23 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

nameserver uses a map the game generates: procedural.

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. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

About the server

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 34 days 11 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 23 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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. Connect at 178.177.239.194:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.177.239.194:28015; 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?,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 8 per team is the default limit.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs164530
Build Game build: 164530.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.