Element card · group Community · atomic number 16,880, its rank

Paul's Test Server

Offline 51.6.180.196:28015 checked 29d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 2 0% full Room to join

7-day average0peak –

Rank · atomic number#16,880top 71%

Last wipe31d 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

Top 71% 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

Wiped	Peak	Crowd	Lasted	Players 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on Paul's Test Server?

The map on Paul's Test Server is procedural, made by the game.

What rules has Paul's Test Server set, and what settings are in force?

Nothing in the name of Paul's Test Server gives a 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. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

Which location is Paul's Test Server based in?

Nothing about a region is published by Paul's Test Server. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 51.6.180.196:28015 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does Paul's Test Server currently run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows is what Paul's Test Server uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does Paul's Test Server stay online?

Right now Paul's Test Server is offline, with its last appearance 29 days 9 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 27 September 2026.

Wipe days

When does Paul's Test Server wipe, and how often?

Too few wipes are on record for Paul's Test Server to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 31 days 12 hours ago the current world was made.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Paul's Test Server?

These are the tags Paul's Test Server makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp2 (Max players): It has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $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 Paul's Test Server appear in?

You will find Paul's Test Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

What position does Paul's Test Server hold among Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week put Paul's Test Server at #16,880, inside the top 71% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on Paul's Test Server tell you?

Paul's Test Server is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 29 days 9 hours ago.

How to join

How can you connect to Paul's Test Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 51.6.180.196:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

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.