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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,299habitat unknownfirst seen 2 Oct 2026

TEST

Offline 88.206.86.197:28015 checked 17d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 10
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,299
top 65%
Last wipe
26d 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
15k10k15k20k2 Oct5 Oct8 Oct12 Oct15 Oct18 Oct

Top 65% 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

Population

How does TEST rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #14,299 for player hours, which puts TEST in the top 65% of all ranked servers.

How busy is TEST?

At this count TEST is offline, with its last sighting 17 days 11 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on TEST mean?

What the game's server browser reads from TEST is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166586 (Build): This server runs game build 166586; 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 TEST?

These Rust Population lists include TEST: 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on TEST?

The record holds too few of TEST'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 26 days 17 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does TEST run?

TEST uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on TEST?

Nothing in TEST's name says how gather works. 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?

On Windows, TEST runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is TEST online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, TEST was last seen 17 days 11 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 2 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is TEST located?

A region is not published by TEST. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 88.206.86.197:28015.

Getting in

How do I join TEST?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 88.206.86.197:28015; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166586
Build This server runs game build 166586.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.