DRK Tester
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 39%.
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
148.251.79.17:28080
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 2431 places on last week. Top 39% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 148.251.79.17:28080
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 10:45 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 27 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 are DRK Tester's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of DRK Tester. The group cap is 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on DRK Tester?
DRK Tester uses a procedural map of 5,000 that the game generates with seed 532532423. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What do DRK Tester's tags signify?
gmsoftcore (Game mode): The softcore ruleset: easier all round; mp50 (Max players): 50 players fit in; ts4 (Group limit): Team size caps at 4; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference are the tags DRK Tester 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 DRK Tester appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find DRK Tester: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Performance of DRK Tester: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 108 across the last 48 hours, minimum 55. At its peak, it held 140,198 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 3,696 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of DRK Tester?
No region is published by DRK Tester. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 148.251.79.17:28080.
How reliable is DRK Tester?
Right now DRK Tester is live. A restart happened about 2 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 99%, 166 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 27 September 2026.
What Rust version is DRK Tester using?
On Windows, DRK Tester runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How does DRK Tester handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. In 100% of recent wipes, half the peak was the floor until the next wipe.
When does DRK Tester wipe?
No next wipe to predict here. DRK Tester goes at irregular times. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 6 days old.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does DRK Tester place?
In the top 39% of all ranked servers, DRK Tester is #8,934 on player hours over the last seven days. For quad servers, #480 is its place.
What's the player count on DRK Tester?
0 players are on DRK Tester at the moment, out of 50 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 21:00 UTC, with an average of 2 players.
Join the server
How can you get into DRK Tester?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 148.251.79.17:28080. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmsoftcore,cs166652,ts4,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.