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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,578habitat unknownfirst seen 8 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 79.142.196.231:28015 checked 18d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 15
= 1 player
7% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,578
top 61%
Last wipe
18d 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct10 Oct11 Oct13 Oct14 Oct16 Oct

Top 61% 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.

0.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctThu 8 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 08:57 UTC18d ago 1 – running 0
Thu 8 Oct, 12:59 UTC19d ago 1 – 0.8 days 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 nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #13,578 for player hours, which puts nameserver in the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 18 days 1 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167231 (Build): This server runs game build 167231; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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?

These Rust Population lists include nameserver: 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 nameserver?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 1 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver'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. Counted from 18 days 15 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does nameserver run?

nameserver uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: nameserver states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 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 18 days 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 8 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

A region is not published by nameserver. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 79.142.196.231:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 79.142.196.231:28015; 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167231
Build This server runs game build 167231.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.