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Element card · group Community · atomic number 13,637, its rank

Stephen's Playground

Offline 15.218.111.176:28015 checked 18d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 10 10% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#13,637top 62%
Last wipe18d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
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
No hourly history yet.

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
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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct15 Oct16 Oct18 Oct

Top 62% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Reaction log

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on Stephen's Playground?

Generated by the game, the map on Stephen's Playground is procedural.

What rules has Stephen's Playground set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of Stephen's Playground. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

In what location does Stephen's Playground sit?

There is no region on record for Stephen's Playground. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 15.218.111.176:28015.

On what Rust version does Stephen's Playground operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Stephen's Playground uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How reliably does Stephen's Playground stay online?

Currently offline, Stephen's Playground was last seen 18 days 8 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 10 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipes and resets

When does Stephen's Playground wipe, and how often?

The record holds too few of Stephen's Playground's wipes to show its 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 18 days 21 hours ago.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Stephen's Playground?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): 10 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167398 (Build): It runs build 167398; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank: that is the tag list Stephen's Playground publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Stephen's Playground come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include Stephen's Playground are: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

How does Stephen's Playground compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has Stephen's Playground at #13,637, in the top 62% of ranked servers.

How full is Stephen's Playground right now?

The last recorded sighting of Stephen's Playground was 18 days 8 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How to join

What steps get you onto Stephen's Playground?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 15.218.111.176:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players 10 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version.
cs167398
Build It runs build 167398.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.