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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,512habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

NightLight

Offline 89.182.223.169:28015 checked 37d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,512
no region published
Last wipe
38d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep23 Sep24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep
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 NightLight rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place NightLight at #15,512, within the top – of all ranked servers.

How busy is NightLight?

NightLight is offline at this count; we last saw it 37 days 10 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on NightLight mean?

These are the tags NightLight publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): The server has 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): This server runs game build 164530; 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 NightLight?

On Rust Population, NightLight is filed under these lists: 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 NightLight?

Too few wipes are on record for NightLight to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 38 days 4 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does NightLight run?

NightLight uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on NightLight?

No gather rate appears in the name of NightLight. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does NightLight run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows for NightLight. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is NightLight online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, NightLight was last seen 37 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 20 September 2026.

Where is NightLight located?

A region is not published by NightLight. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 89.182.223.169:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join NightLight?

Either enter client.connect 89.182.223.169:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp500
Max players The server has 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build This server runs game build 164530.
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.