Element card · group Modded · atomic number 11,154, its rank
DST Sandbox Server
Online 66.51.97.53:28005 checked 11m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 50% 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 11hThu 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 3, 47 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:13 UTC FW27d ago | 3 | – | 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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What map is in play on DST Sandbox Server?
The map on DST Sandbox Server is procedural at size 6,000 with seed 343673, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
How is DST Sandbox Server configured, and what rules apply?
The name of DST Sandbox Server carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
In what location does DST Sandbox Server sit?
No region is published by DST Sandbox Server. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 66.51.97.53:28005 is the address it uses.
On what Rust version does DST Sandbox Server operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what DST Sandbox Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How reliably does DST Sandbox Server stay online?
At the moment, DST Sandbox Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 3 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.
How well does DST Sandbox Server perform?
Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with 5 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 208,505 entities. Up to 4,147 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Wipe days
How often does a wipe happen on DST Sandbox Server, and at what time?
Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what DST Sandbox Server does. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 11 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.
On DST Sandbox Server, what happens when wipe day arrives?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 3 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 47 hours after it began.
Where it appears
How should you read the tags on DST Sandbox Server?
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): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^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: that is the tag list DST Sandbox Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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 DST Sandbox Server appear in?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry DST Sandbox Server: Modded Rust servers, measured and Rust build and creative servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Population
Against other Rust servers, where does DST Sandbox Server place?
Player hours over the last week put DST Sandbox Server at #11,154, inside the top 50% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on DST Sandbox Server tell you?
Of 50 slots, 0 are taken on DST Sandbox Server right now. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 13:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Getting on
What is the way to join DST Sandbox Server?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.97.53:28005. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.