Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,310, its rank
BlackSheep
Offline 135.148.15.130:28942 checked 1d ago
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% 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
newest first| 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.
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Quick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on BlackSheep?
BlackSheep runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 4372203; the game generates it. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.
What settings and rules apply on BlackSheep?
No gather rate appears in the name of BlackSheep. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
What region hosts BlackSheep?
Nothing about a region is published by BlackSheep. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 135.148.15.130:28942.
On what Rust version does BlackSheep operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what BlackSheep uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How reliably does BlackSheep stay online?
Currently offline, BlackSheep was last seen 40 hours ago. About 40 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 147 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 88% uptime. On 3 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Is BlackSheep known for smooth running?
Server fps averaged 217 over the last 48 hours, with 204 as the lowest. The entity count reached 29,587, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 2,567 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.
Wipe days
When does BlackSheep wipe, and how often?
Too few wipes are on record for BlackSheep to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 1 hours ago.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on BlackSheep?
These are the tags BlackSheep makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp5 (Max players): Player slots: 5; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does BlackSheep come up?
You will find BlackSheep on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
How does BlackSheep compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put BlackSheep at #15,310, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on BlackSheep tell you?
The last recorded sighting of BlackSheep was 40 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.
Connection
What steps get you onto BlackSheep?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 135.148.15.130:28942. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.