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Specimen recordcat. no. 10,584NAfirst seen 14 Oct 2026

The Island | Build & Combat Practice

Offline NA 99.235.133.57:28015 checked 1d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 20
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#10,584
top 48% · #1308 in NA
Last wipe
14d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75105:0006:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020005:0006:0007:00

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 14 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k14 Oct17 Oct20 Oct23 Oct26 Oct29 Oct

Top 48% of all ranked servers, top 70% in NA. 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 The Island | Build & Combat Practice rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put The Island | Build & Combat Practice at #10,584, or #1,308 in North America, inside the top 48% of all ranked servers.

How busy is The Island | Build & Combat Practice?

At this count The Island | Build & Combat Practice is offline, with its last sighting 45 hours ago. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 05:00 UTC, when an average of 1 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on The Island | Build & Combat Practice mean?

These are the tags The Island | Build & Combat Practice publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): The server has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^c (Creative): Build whatever you like, with no gathering: a sandbox; ^d (Combat training): The loot is handed to you for aim and PvP practice; ^k (Build server): Design and practise bases here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 Island | Build & Combat Practice?

The Island | Build & Combat Practice appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust aim training servers, counted live, Build and creative servers, Rust creative servers, counted live and North American Rust servers. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Creative ^c, Combat training ^d and Build server ^k; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on The Island | Build & Combat Practice?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of The Island | Build & Combat Practice'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. The world it runs now dates from 14 days 8 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does The Island | Build & Combat Practice run?

The Island | Build & Combat Practice uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 481981. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on The Island | Build & Combat Practice?

Nothing in The Island | Build & Combat Practice's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. combat training is what it runs, practice your aim and PvP, with loot given out. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does The Island | Build & Combat Practice run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what The Island | Build & Combat Practice uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does The Island | Build & Combat Practice run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 94 server fps, with 74 as the lowest. Up to 94,240 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 1,798 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is The Island | Build & Combat Practice online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, The Island | Build & Combat Practice was last seen 45 hours ago. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 2 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 64 of 168 hours were online, or 38%. On 14 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is The Island | Build & Combat Practice located?

The NA tag is how The Island | Build & Combat Practice places itself in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 99.235.133.57:28015.

Getting in

How do I join The Island | Build & Combat Practice?

Either enter client.connect 99.235.133.57:28015 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^c,^d,^k,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players The server has 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Gameplay

^c
Creative Build whatever you like, with no gathering: a sandbox.
^d
Combat training The loot is handed to you for aim and PvP practice.
^k
Build server Design and practise bases here.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

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.