The Dragon's Den
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 19%.
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
157.85.92.23:29299
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
Up 1051 places on last week. Top 19% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 157.85.92.23:29299
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 20
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:33 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 28 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does The Dragon's Den use?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dragon's Den. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Oxide. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on The Dragon's Den?
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 5 is in use on The Dragon's Den, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. The map is called Custom Map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on The Dragon's Den?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Dragon's Den publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp20 (Max players): Slot count: 20; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166494 (Build): Running build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. 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 Dragon's Den?
On these Boongarust lists you will find The Dragon's Den: 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 info
Performance of The Dragon's Den: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 102 across the last 48 hours, minimum 68. At its peak, it held 91,455 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 4,326 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find The Dragon's Den?
No region comes from The Dragon's Den. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 157.85.92.23:29299.
How often is The Dragon's Den online?
Online: The Dragon's Den, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 21 hours ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 28 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Dragon's Den have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is The Dragon's Den. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at The Dragon's Den?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
When does The Dragon's Den wipe?
The Dragon's Den wipes when it feels like it, so no next wipe can be predicted. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 6 days 13 hours.
Population
What's The Dragon's Den's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Dragon's Den at #4,579, in the top 19% of all ranked servers.
Is The Dragon's Den busy?
The Dragon's Den is showing 0 players on 20 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 08:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join The Dragon's Den?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 157.85.92.23:29299. 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.