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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,554habitat unknownfirst seen 28 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 72.56.229.28:28015 checked 29d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,554
top 61%
Last wipe
30d 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
15k10k15k20k28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct

Top 61% 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 nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #14,554, within the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 29 days 16 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

What the game's server browser reads from nameserver is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

The record holds too few of nameserver's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 30 days 7 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

The map on nameserver is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

Nothing in nameserver's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Oxide running as plugins. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows for nameserver. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, nameserver was last seen 29 days 16 hours ago. 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 28 September 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

Nothing published by nameserver states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 72.56.229.28:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 72.56.229.28:28015; 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 mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; 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.