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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,990habitat unknownfirst seen 6 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.205:28015 checked 21d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,990
top 71%
Last wipe
25d 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
15k10k15k20k6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 Oct12 Oct13 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?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #15,990, within the top 71% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 21 days 5 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): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Game build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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.

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. 25 days 15 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

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. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 21 days 5 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 6 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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. 178.177.239.205:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Either enter client.connect 178.177.239.205:28015 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,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build Game build: 166494.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.