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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,109habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 188.17.174.123:28015 checked 27d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,109
top 60%
Last wipe
27d 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 60% 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 nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #14,109, within the top 60% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 27 days 17 hours ago.

Lists and 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): You can join up to 15 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): Game build: 165217; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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?

On Rust Population, nameserver is filed under these lists: 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 schedule

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

The record holds too few of nameserver'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. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 18 hours ago.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

No gather rate appears in the name of nameserver. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows for nameserver. 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 27 days 17 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 1 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 188.17.174.123:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 188.17.174.123:28015; 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,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players You can join up to 15 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 Game build: 165217.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.