Blood Steel and Bad Decisions
Offline 2.84.253.153:35005 checked 31d ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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, measured since 24 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:38 UTC33d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
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.
Quick answers
Population
How does Blood Steel and Bad Decisions rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #16,591 for player hours, which puts Blood Steel and Bad Decisions in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
Blood Steel and Bad Decisions is offline at this count; we last saw it 31 days 14 hours ago.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Blood Steel and Bad Decisions mean?
These are the tags Blood Steel and Bad Decisions publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
On Rust Population, Blood Steel and Bad Decisions 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 does wipe day look like on Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 2 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
Too few wipes are on record for Blood Steel and Bad Decisions 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 33 days 3 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Map and rules
Which map does Blood Steel and Bad Decisions run?
A procedural map of size 6,000 from seed 67821251, generated by the game, is in use on Blood Steel and Bad Decisions. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Blood Steel and Bad Decisions states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Blood Steel and Bad Decisions run?
On Linux, Blood Steel and Bad Decisions runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Is Blood Steel and Bad Decisions online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw Blood Steel and Bad Decisions 31 days 14 hours ago, and it is offline now. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 24 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is Blood Steel and Bad Decisions located?
No region is published by Blood Steel and Bad Decisions. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 2.84.253.153:35005 is where it lives.
Getting in
How do I join Blood Steel and Bad Decisions?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 2.84.253.153:35005. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.