Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 37,258 players 11,622 servers 2,894 with someone on 80 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,105habitat unknownfirst seen 25 Sep 2026

test

Offline 181.163.45.253:28015 checked 33d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 1
= 1 player
100% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,105
top 61%
Last wipe
33d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct2 Oct

Top 61% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 25 Sep, 22:25 UTC33d ago 1 – running 1

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 test rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #14,105 for player hours, which puts test in the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is test?

At this count test is offline, with its last sighting 33 days 8 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on test mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags test publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; 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 test?

test appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 does wipe day look like on test?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on test?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of test'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. The world it runs now dates from 33 days 8 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does test run?

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

What are the rules and settings on test?

No gather rate appears in the name of test. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does test run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows for test. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is test online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, test was last seen 33 days 8 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 25 September 2026.

Where is test located?

A region is not published by test. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 181.163.45.253:28015.

How to join

How do I join test?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 181.163.45.253:28015. 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 mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players The server has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
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.