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Specimen recordcat. no. 10,458habitat unknownfirst seen 12 Oct 2026

The Balls are Inert

Offline 27.33.229.233:28015 checked 3d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 10
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#10,458
top 47%
Last wipe
16d 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
15k10k15k20k12 Oct15 Oct18 Oct21 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 47% 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 12 Oct, 11:13 UTC16d 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does The Balls are Inert rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, The Balls are Inert places at #10,458, within the top 47% of ranked servers.

How busy is The Balls are Inert?

At this count The Balls are Inert is offline, with its last sighting 3 days 13 hours ago. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest.

Tags

What do the server tags on The Balls are Inert mean?

What the game's server browser reads from The Balls are Inert is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; 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): The region code is left blank. 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 The Balls are Inert?

The Balls are Inert appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 The Balls are Inert?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on The Balls are Inert?

The record holds too few of The Balls are Inert's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 16 days 11 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does The Balls are Inert run?

The Balls are Inert uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on The Balls are Inert?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Balls are Inert. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does The Balls are Inert run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for The Balls are Inert. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is The Balls are Inert online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, The Balls are Inert was last seen 3 days 13 hours ago. It was up 6% of the time over the last 7 full days, 10 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 12 October 2026.

Where is The Balls are Inert located?

No region is published by The Balls are Inert. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 27.33.229.233:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join The Balls are Inert?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 27.33.229.233:28015; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp10
Max players 10 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
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 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.