Sander
Offline 85.165.49.87:28015 checked 22d ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 10:28 UTC25d ago | 1 | – | running | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does Sander rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #15,971 for player hours, which puts Sander in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Sander?
We have no live count for Sander right now. It was last seen 22 days 17 hours ago.
Tags
What do the server tags on Sander mean?
These are the tags Sander publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp2 (Max players): The server has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): This server runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Sander?
These Rust Population lists include Sander: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on Sander?
Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on Sander?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Sander'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. 25 days 22 hours ago the current world was made.
Map and rules
Which map does Sander run?
A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Sander.
What are the rules and settings on Sander?
Nothing in Sander's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Sander run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what Sander uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Is Sander online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, Sander was last seen 22 days 17 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 25 September 2026.
Where is Sander located?
No region is published by Sander. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 85.165.49.87:28015 is where it lives.
Getting in
How do I join Sander?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 85.165.49.87:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.