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Element card · group Vanilla · atomic number 7,365, its rank

Sandkasten

Online 147.93.162.142:29215 checked 8m ago

vanilla
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 2
Rank · atomic number#7,365top 33%
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe8d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
00.250.50.75101:0010:0019:0005:0014:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
02040608001:0010:0019:0005:0014:0023:00

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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 33% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 18hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:11 UTC FW26d ago 0 – running 0

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 page

Settings and map

What map is in play on Sandkasten?

The map on Sandkasten is procedural at size 3,700 with seed 2064416874, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What rules has Sandkasten set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of Sandkasten. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. The server browser lists it under Community. Vanilla is its own label: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

What region hosts Sandkasten?

There is no region on record for Sandkasten. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 147.93.162.142:29215.

What Rust version does Sandkasten currently run?

On Windows, Sandkasten is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does Sandkasten stay online?

Sandkasten is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 days 4 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours were online, giving 86% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is Sandkasten known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 57 server fps and a minimum of 11. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 74,340 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,869 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Sandkasten, and at what time?

The only wipe on Sandkasten is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. 26 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.

On Sandkasten, what happens when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Sandkasten?

These are the tags Sandkasten makes public for the server browser to read: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. 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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Sandkasten appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Sandkasten: Rust community servers, measured and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

How does Sandkasten compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours over the last week put Sandkasten at #7,365, inside the top 33% of ranked servers.

How many players does Sandkasten have at the moment?

Of 50 slots, 0 are taken on Sandkasten right now. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 2. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 14:00 UTC, at 1 players.

Getting on

What steps get you onto Sandkasten?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 147.93.162.142:29215. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically. For more, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival, vanilla style.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules.

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.