Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,772habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.237:28015 checked 22d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,772
top 61%
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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct11 Oct12 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?

Over the past week it ranks #13,772 for player hours, which puts nameserver in the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 22 days 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): 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): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

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 schedule

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. Counted from 25 days 15 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

The map on nameserver is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: nameserver states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. 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.

About the server

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?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 22 days ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 5 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 178.177.239.237:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.177.239.237:28015; 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?,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 The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
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.