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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,118habitat unknownfirst seen 8 Oct 2026

TEST SERVER

Offline 209.97.185.252:28015 checked 19d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 4
= 1 player
50% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,118
top 55%
Last wipe
19d 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct9 Oct11 Oct12 Oct14 Oct15 Oct

Top 55% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 8 Oct, 20:40 UTC19d ago 2 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does TEST SERVER rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place TEST SERVER at #12,118, within the top 55% of all ranked servers.

How busy is TEST SERVER?

TEST SERVER is offline at this count; we last saw it 19 days 7 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on TEST SERVER mean?

What the game's server browser reads from TEST SERVER is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp4 (Max players): The server has 4 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167231 (Build): The game build is 167231; 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 SERVER?

TEST SERVER appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on TEST SERVER?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 2 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on TEST SERVER?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of TEST SERVER'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. Counted from 19 days 7 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does TEST SERVER run?

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

What are the rules and settings on TEST SERVER?

No gather rate appears in the name of TEST SERVER. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: 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 disabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does TEST SERVER run?

On Linux, TEST SERVER runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is TEST SERVER online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, TEST SERVER was last seen 19 days 7 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 8 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is TEST SERVER located?

No region is published by TEST SERVER. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 209.97.185.252:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join TEST SERVER?

Either enter client.connect 209.97.185.252:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp4
Max players The server has 4 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167231
Build The game build is 167231.
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.