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Specimen recordcat. no. 9,468habitat unknownfirst seen 27 Oct 2026

Balls

Offline 216.183.125.93:28015 checked 2d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
2/ 2
= 1 player
100% full
7-day average
1
peak 2
Rank
#9,468
top 42%
Last wipe
4d 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 42% 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 Balls rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Balls places at #9,468, within the top 42% of ranked servers.

How busy is Balls?

At this count Balls is offline, with its last sighting 2 days 15 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 2.

Tags

What do the server tags on Balls mean?

These are the tags Balls publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp2 (Max players): The server has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. 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 Balls?

On Rust Population, Balls is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Balls?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Balls'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. The world it runs now dates from 4 days 14 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Balls run?

Balls uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Balls?

No gather rate appears in the name of Balls. 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. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Oxide running as plugins. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Balls run?

On Windows, Balls runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Balls online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Balls was last seen 2 days 15 hours ago. In the last 1 full day it was found up for 0 of 24 hours, 0% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 27 October 2026.

Where is Balls located?

A region is not published by Balls. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 216.183.125.93:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Balls?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 216.183.125.93:28015; 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 mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp2
Max players The server has 2 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

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.