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Specimen recordcat. no. 10,542habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

TestPAUL2026

Offline 82.121.184.178:28015 checked 4d ago

monthly wipes vanillapve

Measurements

Players now
0/ 4
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#10,542
top 47%
Last wipe
13d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 20h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep4 Oct12 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 47% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

5.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
50%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

7d 20h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 20h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctFri 2 OctSun 27 Sep
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
Thu 15 Oct, 12:44 UTC13d ago 1 – running 1
Fri 2 Oct, 08:46 UTC26d ago 1 held half 13.2 days 1
Sun 27 Sep, 14:03 UTC31d ago 1 held half 4.8 days 1
Fri 25 Sep, 16:36 UTC33d ago 1 – 1.9 days 0
Sun 20 Sep, 06:42 UTC38d ago 0 – 5.4 days 1

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 TestPAUL2026 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place TestPAUL2026 at #10,542, within the top 47% of all ranked servers.

How busy is TestPAUL2026?

At this count TestPAUL2026 is offline, with its last sighting 4 days 10 hours ago. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest.

Tags

What do the server tags on TestPAUL2026 mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags TestPAUL2026 publishes: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp4 (Max players): 4 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other. 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 TestPAUL2026?

TestPAUL2026 appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed, PvE servers, counted and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on TestPAUL2026?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. In 100% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on TestPAUL2026?

The force wipe is the only wipe TestPAUL2026 takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 13 days 9 hours ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does TestPAUL2026 run?

The map on TestPAUL2026 is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on TestPAUL2026?

Nothing in TestPAUL2026's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs pve, no player combat. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. Vanilla is the label it uses: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does TestPAUL2026 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what TestPAUL2026 uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is TestPAUL2026 online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, TestPAUL2026 was last seen 4 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 4 of 168 hours were online, or 2%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is TestPAUL2026 located?

No region is published by TestPAUL2026. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 82.121.184.178:28015.

How to join

How do I join TestPAUL2026?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 82.121.184.178:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^p,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp4
Max players 4 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Gameplay

^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other.

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.