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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 12,937, its rank

BestRust

Offline 81.231.253.216:28015 checked 11d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 10 10% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#12,937top 59%
Last wipe18d 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
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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct24 Oct

Top 59% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

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.

usual gap6 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 3

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 10 OctSun 4 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 10 Oct, 18:21 UTC18d ago 1 – running 1
Sun 4 Oct, 17:22 UTC24d ago 1 halved by day 3 6 days 1

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 BestRust?

The map on BestRust is procedural, made by the game.

How is BestRust configured, and what rules apply?

Nothing in the name of BestRust gives a gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

What region hosts BestRust?

Nothing about a region is published by BestRust. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 81.231.253.216:28015 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does BestRust currently run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what BestRust uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does BestRust stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

BestRust is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 11 days 11 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 3 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on BestRust?

Too few wipes are on record for BestRust to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 18 days 7 hours ago.

How does BestRust look on the day of a wipe?

Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 1 hours in. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. Where it did not hold, the crowd dropped below half by day 3.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on BestRust?

The game's server browser reads the tags BestRust publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp10 (Max players): Player slots: 10; 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; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^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.

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

The Rust Data Lab lists that include BestRust 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

What position does BestRust hold among Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week put BestRust at #12,937, inside the top 59% of ranked servers.

How many players does BestRust have at the moment?

No live signal from BestRust right now, which was last seen 11 days 11 hours ago.

Connection

What steps get you onto BestRust?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 81.231.253.216:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp10
Max players Player slots: 10.
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.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Mods and access

^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.

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.