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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,911habitat unknownfirst seen 3 Oct 2026

GridLink Carbon QA

Offline 182.249.49.157:28115 checked 25d ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
1/ 10
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,911
top 61%
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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct4 Oct6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 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

Player counts

How does GridLink Carbon QA rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #13,911 for player hours, which puts GridLink Carbon QA in the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is GridLink Carbon QA?

At this count GridLink Carbon QA is offline, with its last sighting 25 days 23 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on GridLink Carbon QA mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags GridLink Carbon QA publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use. 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 GridLink Carbon QA?

These Rust Population lists include GridLink Carbon QA: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on GridLink Carbon QA?

The record holds too few of GridLink Carbon QA's wipes to show a 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 13 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does GridLink Carbon QA run?

GridLink Carbon QA uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on GridLink Carbon QA?

Nothing in GridLink Carbon QA's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Carbon running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does GridLink Carbon QA run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows is what GridLink Carbon QA uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is GridLink Carbon QA online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw GridLink Carbon QA 25 days 23 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 3 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is GridLink Carbon QA located?

A region is not published by GridLink Carbon QA. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 182.249.49.157:28115 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join GridLink Carbon QA?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 182.249.49.157:28115; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use.

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.