The Band of Retards
Offline 98.191.113.5:28015 checked 29d 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, measured since 19 Sep. 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does The Band of Retards rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Band of Retards places at #16,924, within the top 71% of ranked servers.
How busy is The Band of Retards?
At this count The Band of Retards is offline, with its last sighting 29 days 13 hours ago.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Band of Retards mean?
What the game's server browser reads from The Band of Retards is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs164530 (Build): Game build: 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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 The Band of Retards?
On Rust Population, The Band of Retards 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 The Band of Retards?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of The Band of Retards'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. 48 days 13 hours ago the current world was made.
Settings
Which map does The Band of Retards run?
The Band of Retards uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 6738. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on The Band of Retards?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Band of Retards. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. 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 The Band of Retards run?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Linux is what The Band of Retards uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Is The Band of Retards online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, The Band of Retards was last seen 29 days 13 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 18 September 2026.
Where is The Band of Retards located?
Nothing published by The Band of Retards states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 98.191.113.5:28015.
How to join
How do I join The Band of Retards?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 98.191.113.5:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.