The Batcave
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 68%.
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
157.85.86.153:28015
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 68% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 157.85.86.153:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 6 Oct 2026, 05:48 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 6 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 The Batcave's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Batcave. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on The Batcave?
The map on The Batcave is procedural, size 2,500, generated with seed 50000 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What do The Batcave's tags signify?
These tags come from The Batcave and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
What Boongarust lists feature The Batcave?
The Boongarust lists that take The Batcave are: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Server info
Performance of The Batcave: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 212, with a low of 145. The entity count reached 29,973: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 1,794 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of The Batcave?
From The Batcave, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 157.85.86.153:28015.
What's the uptime like on The Batcave?
The Batcave is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 39 hours ago. Out of 24 hours in the last 1 full day, it was up 24. That is 100%. 6 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does The Batcave have?
On Linux, The Batcave runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
The Batcave wipes on what schedule?
The estimate for The Batcave's next wipe comes from the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are on was made 2 days 5 hours. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
Where does The Batcave sit in the rankings?
Ranked #16,127 on seven-day player hours, The Batcave is in the top 68% overall.
What's the player count on The Batcave?
The Batcave is showing 0 players on 40 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1. It was busiest at 18:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 0 players on average.
Join the server
What's the process to join The Batcave?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 157.85.86.153:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.