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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,338habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.239.87:28015 checked 23d ago

Measurements

Players now
3/ 15
= 1 player
20% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#11,338
top 50%
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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct10 Oct11 Oct

Top 50% 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 #11,338, within the top 50% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

At this count nameserver is offline, with its last sighting 23 days 23 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): 15 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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. 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Too few wipes are on record for nameserver to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 26 days 6 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does nameserver run?

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

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

Nothing in nameserver's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. 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. 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 23 days 23 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 4 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is nameserver located?

Nothing published by nameserver states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 178.177.239.87:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.239.87:28015. 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 15 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build This server runs 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.