Element card · group Modded · atomic number 8,302, its rank
The Hill Top
Online 81.16.176.157:7056 checked 10m 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 37% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. 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, 2 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 7 Oct, 09:06 UTC22d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 04:19 UTC27d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 5.2 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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageServer setup
What map is in play on The Hill Top?
A procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1 runs on The Hill Top, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
How is The Hill Top configured, and what rules apply?
Nothing in the name of The Hill Top 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. Raids and player fights are part of play here. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server facts
Which location is The Hill Top based in?
No region is published by The Hill Top. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. Connect at 81.16.176.157:7056.
On what Rust version does The Hill Top operate?
On Linux, The Hill Top 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 The Hill Top for staying online?
At the moment, The Hill Top is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Is The Hill Top known for smooth running?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 80 server fps, with a low of 28. The maximum entity count was 105,552, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use peaked at 3,389 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Wipe schedule
When does The Hill Top wipe, and how often?
Too few wipes are on record for The Hill Top to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 22 days 8 hours ago the current world was made.
What does a typical wipe day on The Hill Top involve?
Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 1 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 2 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 1 when it didn't hold.
Where it appears
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Hill Top?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Hill Top publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins; ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Hill Top come up?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include The Hill Top are: Modded Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player numbers
How does The Hill Top compare with other servers in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours table has The Hill Top at #8,302, in the top 37% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on The Hill Top tell you?
Of 40 slots, 0 are taken on The Hill Top right now. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 15:00 UTC, when the average was 0 players.
How to join
How can you connect to The Hill Top?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 81.16.176.157:7056, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.