Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,938, its rank
Smelly Shaft
Offline 65.21.84.250:28015 checked 26d 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, measured since 29 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 19hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:28 UTC FW27d 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 pageMap and rules
What map is in play on Smelly Shaft?
The map on Smelly Shaft is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1907403889, made by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What rules has Smelly Shaft set, and what settings are in force?
No gather rate appears in the name of Smelly Shaft. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. 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. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
Which location is Smelly Shaft based in?
No region is published by Smelly Shaft. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 65.21.84.250:28015 is the address it uses.
Which Rust version is Smelly Shaft on?
On Linux, Smelly Shaft is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How reliably does Smelly Shaft stay online?
Right now Smelly Shaft is offline, with its last appearance 26 days 20 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 29 September 2026.
Wipes and resets
When does Smelly Shaft wipe, and how often?
Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what Smelly Shaft does. The next time this server wipes will be the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which wipes every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days ago.
What does a typical wipe day on Smelly Shaft involve?
Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 0 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.
Tags, lists
How should you read the tags on Smelly Shaft?
The game's server browser reads the tags Smelly Shaft publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here. 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 Smelly Shaft come up?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include Smelly Shaft are: 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 counts
What position does Smelly Shaft hold among Rust servers?
Smelly Shaft sits at #15,938 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on Smelly Shaft tell you?
The last recorded sighting of Smelly Shaft was 26 days 20 hours ago, and it is offline now.
Getting on
What steps get you onto Smelly Shaft?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 65.21.84.250:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.