Smelly Shaft
Offline 65.21.84.250:28015 checked 27d 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 29 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:28 UTC FW27d ago | 0 | – | 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 Smelly Shaft rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Smelly Shaft at #15,938, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Smelly Shaft?
At this count Smelly Shaft is offline, with its last sighting 27 days 5 hours ago.
Tags
What do the server tags on Smelly Shaft mean?
What the game's server browser reads from Smelly Shaft is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 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): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Smelly Shaft?
Smelly Shaft appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on Smelly Shaft?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on Smelly Shaft?
Smelly Shaft wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 27 days 9 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Settings
Which map does Smelly Shaft run?
Smelly Shaft uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 1907403889. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Smelly Shaft?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Smelly Shaft states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Smelly Shaft run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux for Smelly Shaft. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Is Smelly Shaft online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw Smelly Shaft 27 days 5 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. It was first seen by Rust Population on 29 September 2026.
Where is Smelly Shaft located?
A region is not published by Smelly Shaft. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 65.21.84.250:28015.
How to join
How do I join Smelly Shaft?
Either enter client.connect 65.21.84.250:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.