BW Test Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 59%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
104.143.3.209:29015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 1152 places on last week. Top 59% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
BW TEST SERVER You must be Whitelisted to play here. If you are an MVP on either of our servers you are on the Whitelist. This is our testing and development server. New mods and plugins are setup and tested before deployment on BW Redux or BW Zombified.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 104.143.3.209:29015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 19:53 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does BW Test Server use?
No gather rate appears in the name of BW Test Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on BW Test Server?
BW Test Server uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 1583848389. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on BW Test Server?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): Room for 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167058 (Build): Build 167058; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; modded (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags BW Test Server puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does BW Test Server appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for BW Test Server: Top modded Rust 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is BW Test Server laggy?
The 48-hour average was 59 server fps; the floor was 13. At its peak, it held 111,750 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 4,337 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of BW Test Server?
No region is published by BW Test Server. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 104.143.3.209:29015.
How often is BW Test Server online?
BW Test Server is up as you read this. A restart happened about 17 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 83%, 139 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is BW Test Server using?
On Linux, BW Test Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How does BW Test Server handle wipe day?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
When does BW Test Server wipe?
BW Test Server wipes with the force wipe, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its world is 6 days 11 hours old. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
What's BW Test Server's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put BW Test Server at #14,086, in the top 59% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on BW Test Server?
BW Test Server is showing 0 players on 40 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
How can you get into BW Test Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 104.143.3.209:29015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/ZHnKkR9VaZ.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167058,ts8,^o^z,modded.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.