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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,950habitat unknownfirst seen 6 Oct 2026

islands-boot

Offline 208.88.69.27:38438 checked 23d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 1
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,950
top 71%
Last wipe
23d 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
15k10k15k20k6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct

Top 71% 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

Population

How does islands-boot rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, islands-boot places at #15,950, within the top 71% of ranked servers.

How busy is islands-boot?

We have no live count for islands-boot right now. It was last seen 23 days 2 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on islands-boot mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags islands-boot publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp1 (Max players): You can join up to 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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 islands-boot?

These Rust Population lists include islands-boot: 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on islands-boot?

Too few wipes are on record for islands-boot 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 23 days 2 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

What are the rules and settings on islands-boot?

No gather rate appears in the name of islands-boot. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does islands-boot run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux for islands-boot. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is islands-boot online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, islands-boot was last seen 23 days 2 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 6 October 2026.

Where is islands-boot located?

No region is published by islands-boot. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 208.88.69.27:38438.

How to join

How do I join islands-boot?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 208.88.69.27:38438; 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 mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp1
Max players You can join up to 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build This server runs game build 166494.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.