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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,134habitat unknownfirst seen 14 Oct 2026

NUC Testbed

Offline 71.223.68.160:28015 checked 7d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 10
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#13,134
top 59%
Last wipe
13d 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
15k10k15k20k14 Oct17 Oct20 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 59% 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 NUC Testbed rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, NUC Testbed places at #13,134, within the top 59% of ranked servers.

How busy is NUC Testbed?

NUC Testbed is offline at this count; we last saw it 7 days 2 hours ago. Seven days of counting give an average of 1 players and a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on NUC Testbed mean?

What the game's server browser reads from NUC Testbed is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 NUC Testbed?

NUC Testbed 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on NUC Testbed?

Too few wipes are on record for NUC Testbed to show its rhythm. 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 13 days 11 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does NUC Testbed run?

The map on NUC Testbed is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on NUC Testbed?

Nothing in NUC Testbed's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does NUC Testbed run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows for NUC Testbed. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is NUC Testbed online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, NUC Testbed was last seen 7 days 2 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 4 of 168 hours were online, or 2%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 14 October 2026.

Where is NUC Testbed located?

A region is not published by NUC Testbed. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 71.223.68.160:28015.

How to join

How do I join NUC Testbed?

Either enter client.connect 71.223.68.160:28015 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players 10 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.