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
151.228.161.71:28015
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
Top 60% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 151.228.161.71:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 2
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 08:02 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 2 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 settings does hops use?
No gather rate appears in the name of hops. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on hops?
hops uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on hops?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp2 (Max players): Room for 2; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166586 (Build): Game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags hops puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show hops?
The Boongarust lists that take hops are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
What's the physical location of hops?
From hops, there is no region. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 151.228.161.71:28015.
How reliable is hops?
Offline now, hops was last seen 5 days 17 hours ago. 0 hours out of 120 across the last 5 full days. 0% uptime. 2 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does hops have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Windows: that is hops. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
hops wipes on what schedule?
hops's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 5 days 18 hours old.
Population
Where does hops sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put hops at #14,315, in the top 60% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on hops?
Down right now: hops, last spotted 5 days 17 hours back. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 1.
Join the server
How do you connect to hops?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 151.228.161.71:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.