play-rust
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 67%.
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
126.203.249.5:28015
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
Top 67% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 126.203.249.5:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 5 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 5 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are play-rust's rules and configuration?
The name of play-rust does not include a gather rate. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on play-rust?
play-rust uses a procedural map of 4,000 that the game generates with seed 65121. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What do play-rust's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags play-rust publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp500 (Max players): Room for 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature play-rust?
On these Boongarust lists you will find play-rust: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Is play-rust laggy?
The 48-hour average was 121 server fps; the floor was 86. The entity count reached 88,354: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 3,416 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of play-rust?
From play-rust, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 126.203.249.5:28015.
What's the uptime like on play-rust?
Right now play-rust is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 3 days 22 hours ago. 72 hours out of 72 across the last 3 full days. 100% uptime. 5 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does play-rust have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows: that is play-rust. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
play-rust wipes on what schedule?
play-rust's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 4 days old.
Player counts
What's play-rust's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #15,308 on seven-day player hours, play-rust is in the top 67% overall.
What's the player count on play-rust?
Right now, 0 players are on play-rust, which has 500 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
How do you connect to play-rust?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 126.203.249.5:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.