The BAD idea
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
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
139.180.52.71:28015
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
Down 219 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 139.180.52.71:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 100
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 15 Sep 2026, 10:38 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 15 Sep 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 settings does The BAD idea use?
No gather rate appears in the name of The BAD idea. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as pve, player-versus-player combat is off. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on The BAD idea?
The BAD idea uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 6738. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on The BAD idea?
These tags come from The BAD idea and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp100 (Max players): Slot count: 100; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2633 or the door stays shut; cs165217 (Build): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does The BAD idea appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for The BAD idea: The busiest community servers in Rust and Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
Performance of The BAD idea: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 84 across the last 48 hours, minimum 68. At its peak, it held 109,796 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 5,823 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of The BAD idea?
No region is published by The BAD idea. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 139.180.52.71:28015.
How often is The BAD idea online?
Right now The BAD idea is live. A restart happened about 12 days 20 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. 15 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does The BAD idea have?
On Windows, The BAD idea runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
When does The BAD idea wipe?
The BAD idea'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. The world you are on was made 23 days 5 hours.
Population
Ranking wise, where does The BAD idea place?
Ranked #16,330 on seven-day player hours, The BAD idea is in the top 69% overall.
Is The BAD idea busy?
0 players are on The BAD idea at the moment, out of 100 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
How can you get into The BAD idea?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 139.180.52.71:28015. 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^p,gmrust,cs165217,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.