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Live readings Servers11,696 Players45,884 Populated3,156 Fresh wipes · 3h101 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,349, its rank

BEST_BUDS

Offline 216.138.10.158:28015 checked 3h ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,349top 69%
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes 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
AveragePeak
0123401:0010:0018:0003:0011:0021:00

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
02040608001:0010:0018:0003:0011:0021:00

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 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

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

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

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.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 08:19 UTC26d 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

Server setup

What map is in play on BEST_BUDS?

BEST_BUDS runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1337; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

How is BEST_BUDS configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of BEST_BUDS. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

Which location is BEST_BUDS based in?

No region is published by BEST_BUDS. 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 216.138.10.158:28015.

What Rust version does BEST_BUDS currently run?

On Linux, BEST_BUDS is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How dependable is BEST_BUDS for staying online?

Right now BEST_BUDS is offline, with its last appearance 3 hours ago. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 28 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.

How well does BEST_BUDS perform?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 62 server fps, with a low of 32. The maximum entity count was 121,142, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 4,585 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on BEST_BUDS?

Too few wipes are on record for BEST_BUDS to reveal a rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 26 days 16 hours ago the current world was made.

On BEST_BUDS, what happens when wipe day arrives?

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

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on BEST_BUDS?

These are the tags BEST_BUDS makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; 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): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

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

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry BEST_BUDS: 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

What position does BEST_BUDS hold among Rust servers?

BEST_BUDS sits at #15,349 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on BEST_BUDS tell you?

BEST_BUDS is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 3 hours ago. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

Getting on

What steps get you onto BEST_BUDS?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 216.138.10.158:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
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 It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$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.