Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 73,779 players 11,815 servers 3,763 with someone on 143 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,332habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.51:28015 checked 22d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,332
top 68%
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 68% 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?

By player hours over the last seven days, nameserver places at #15,332, within the top 68% of ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 22 days 12 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; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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. Look for it under these filters on the server 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?

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 25 days 15 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does nameserver run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on nameserver.

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. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 22 days 12 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 5 October 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 178.177.239.51:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Either enter client.connect 178.177.239.51:28015 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 You can join up to 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.