Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 92,684 players 11,895 servers 4,089 with someone on 167 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,300habitat unknownfirst seen 17 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.91.98.28:28015 checked 40d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,300
no region published
Last wipe
40d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23 Sep24 Sep
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 #13,300, within the top – of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 40 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs163493 (Build): Game build: 163493; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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?

These Rust Population lists include nameserver: 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?

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. 40 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

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, 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?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163493 on Windows is what nameserver uses. 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 40 days 5 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 17 September 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 178.91.98.28:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.91.98.28:28015; 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,cs163493,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs163493
Build Game build: 163493.
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.