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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,335, its rank

The Dragon's Den

Online 157.85.92.23:29299 checked 10m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 20 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,335top 69%
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
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
0123410:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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
05010015020010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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 28 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
15k10k15k20k28 Sep4 Oct10 Oct17 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

usual gap0.8 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm33%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctWed 30 SepWed 30 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:33 UTC FW27d ago 1 – running 1
Wed 30 Sep, 22:10 UTC28d ago 1 – 0.8 days 0
Wed 30 Sep, 08:41 UTC29d ago 1 – 0.6 days 0
Mon 28 Sep, 21:11 UTC30d ago 1 – 1.5 days 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

Server setup

What map is in play on The Dragon's Den?

The Dragon's Den runs a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 5; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map. Its map carries the name: Custom Map.

What rules has The Dragon's Den set, and what settings are in force?

The name of The Dragon's Den carries no gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. 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 Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

In what location does The Dragon's Den sit?

Nothing about a region is published by The Dragon's Den. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 157.85.92.23:29299 is the address it uses.

Which Rust version is The Dragon's Den on?

On Linux, The Dragon's Den is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does The Dragon's Den stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, The Dragon's Den is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 28 September 2026.

How well does The Dragon's Den perform?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 113 server fps, with a low of 87. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 91,394 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,562 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on The Dragon's Den, and at what time?

No next wipe can be predicted on The Dragon's Den: its wipes come at irregular times. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 27 days 15 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on The Dragon's Den involve?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 1 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Dragon's Den?

These are the tags The Dragon's Den makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp20 (Max players): Player slots: 20; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Dragon's Den come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry The Dragon's Den: Modded Rust servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player counts

What position does The Dragon's Den hold among Rust servers?

The Dragon's Den sits at #15,335 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does The Dragon's Den have at the moment?

At the moment The Dragon's Den has 0 of its 20 slots filled. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

How to join

What steps get you onto The Dragon's Den?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 157.85.92.23:29299. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp20
Max players Player slots: 20.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

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.