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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 9,686, its rank

Nix Sandbox

Offline 89.57.112.28:28015 checked 21h ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#9,686top 44%
Last wipe52d agono schedule published
Next wipe7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
AveragePeak
00.250.50.75110:0012:0014:0017:0019:0021:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 44% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW27d ago 1 – running 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

Server setup

What settings and rules apply on Nix Sandbox?

Nothing in the name of Nix Sandbox 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. 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. Carbon plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

Which location is Nix Sandbox based in?

No region is published by Nix Sandbox. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 89.57.112.28:28015.

Which Rust version is Nix Sandbox on?

On Windows, Nix Sandbox is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does Nix Sandbox stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Nix Sandbox is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 21 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 42 of 168 hours were online, giving 25% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on Nix Sandbox?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what Nix Sandbox does. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 52 days 5 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on Nix Sandbox involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Nix Sandbox?

The game's server browser reads the tags Nix Sandbox publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon. 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 Nix Sandbox appear in?

You will find Nix Sandbox on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured and Rust build and creative servers. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does Nix Sandbox place?

Nix Sandbox sits at #9,686 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 44% of ranked servers.

How many players does Nix Sandbox have at the moment?

Nix Sandbox is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 21 hours ago. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 10:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

How to join

How can you connect to Nix Sandbox?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 89.57.112.28:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp50
Max players Player slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Plugins run on Carbon.

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.