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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,901habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

Test

Offline 84.166.196.163:28015 checked 22d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 3
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,901
top 72%
Last wipe
25d 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct6 Oct8 Oct10 Oct12 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% 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 Test rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Test places at #15,901, within the top 72% of ranked servers.

How busy is Test?

We have no live count for Test right now. It was last seen 22 days 1 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Test mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Test publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp3 (Max players): You can join up to 3 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; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Test?

Test 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 is the wipe schedule on Test?

The record holds too few of Test's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 25 days 5 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does Test run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Test.

What are the rules and settings on Test?

No gather rate appears in the name of Test. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, 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. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Test run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows for Test. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Test online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw Test 22 days 1 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. On 4 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Test located?

No region is published by Test. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 84.166.196.163:28015.

How to join

How do I join Test?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 84.166.196.163:28015; 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 mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp3
Max players You can join up to 3 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.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.