Element card · group Community · atomic number 13,821, its rank
Cave Playtest
Offline 195.252.230.124:28015 checked 17d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 63% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 14:07 UTC17d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
| Sun 11 Oct, 16:44 UTC18d ago | 1 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Sat 10 Oct, 18:25 UTC19d ago | 1 | – | 0.9 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 pageSettings and map
What rules has Cave Playtest set, and what settings are in force?
Nothing in the name of Cave Playtest gives a gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
Which location is Cave Playtest based in?
Nothing about a region is published by Cave Playtest. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 195.252.230.124:28015.
What Rust version does Cave Playtest currently run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Cave Playtest uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
Does Cave Playtest stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
Currently offline, Cave Playtest was last seen 17 days 5 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 10 October 2026.
Wipe days
When does Cave Playtest wipe, and how often?
With no fixed rhythm, Cave Playtest wipes at irregular times, so the next wipe cannot be predicted. 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 17 days 16 hours ago.
What does a typical wipe day on Cave Playtest involve?
Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
Where it appears
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Cave Playtest?
The game's server browser reads the tags Cave Playtest publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp8 (Max players): 8 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167398 (Build): Build number: 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Cave Playtest appear in?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Cave Playtest: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does Cave Playtest place?
Cave Playtest sits at #13,821 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 63% of ranked servers.
How full is Cave Playtest right now?
Cave Playtest is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 17 days 5 hours ago.
How to join
What steps get you onto Cave Playtest?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 195.252.230.124:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.